From Goodreads:
Created just fifteen days ago, Frankie Stein is psyched to trade her father's lonely formaldehyde-smelling basement lab for parties and friends. But with a student body totally freaked out by rumors of monsters stalking the halls, Frankie finds that life in the "normi" world can be rough for a chic freak like her.
She thinks she finds a friend in fellow new student Melody Carver--but can a normi be trusted with her big secret?
This book was too cheesy and corny for me. But maybe the younger YA crowd will like it more.
I thought the plot was original. Monsters hiding in plain sight of the "normies". And while I don't think we were supposed to figure out just who was a monster and who wasn't, I had the monsters pegged from the very beginning.
I did like the two main characters--Melody and Frankie. They were definitely true to themselves and wanted to be liked for who they were and not what they looked like. Which would be a good moral for tweens to read about.
But I wasn't a fan of the ending. I read an ARC, so maybe the ending will change, and I certainly hope it does. I think it was meant to be a cliffhanger, but to me it didn't feel that way. It felt like the book just stopped. In fact, there were a couple of blank pages at the end and I flipped through them thinking that maybe the writing would continue. Nothing was wrapped up, but still left me wanting more. It just cut off. Not my favorite way to end a story.
I gave this book a rating of 2.5/5.
Monster High will be released on September 1, 2010
This book fulfilled an item in the following challenges:
2010 100+ Reading Challenge: 114
2010 Young Adult Reading Challenge: 83
ARC Reading Challenge 2010: 80
*FTC Disclosure: I was given this book for free for an honest review as part of the Book It Forward ARC Tours.
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