Modern Monsters by Kelley York

Pages: 352
Publish date: 2 June 2015
Publisher: Entangled: Teen
ISBN: 1633750027
Purchase: Book Depository – Amazon UK – Amazon US – Amazon AU

Modern Monsters:

I received an e-copy of Modern Monsters by Kelley York from Entangled teen via Netgalley for an honest review. This has in no way influenced my thoughts on the book.

Modern Monsters isn’t like something that I have read before. It’s hard to read, gripping and eye-opening. Modern Monsters tells the story of everyone’s worst nightmare for more than one person.

Modern Monsters follows Vic Howard, the invisible guys. Not literally, but the guy that doesn’t have many friends, the one that you see in the background. People talk to him, but not because they like, just so they can invite his best friend Brett to parties and Vic is their way in.

Vic also has a stutter, and I think it’s fantastic! I love diverse characters and books and the main protagonist having a stutter is perfect. You are unable to detect it when he is telling the story, but when he is speaking, it’s all out in the open.

Vic never wanted to go to the party, but after being convinced by Brett and lying to his mum on the way he ends up at a party that would change his life forever.

There are a lot of books out there that tell the story of the person that was raped or even the rapist, but there are very few novels out there that follow, the life of the person being accused of rape.

Vic was doing the right thing and I wish all guys were like this. He saw a girl throwing up, decided to help her and suffered consequences of a good deed. Callie Wheeler’s life changed forever that night, but so did Vic’s.

Modern Monsters takes the reader on a journey of suffering. For most of his life, no one knew who Vic was by name, but now everyone knows.  All I wanted to do was give him a big hug.

It was so hard to read, not because of the subject per say, but just what happened around. Not only did Callie had to suffer, but so did Vic and it was heartbreaking. Not only did people who never knew him judge believe what had happened, but people that he loved and care about as well. And that was the hardest to read, because the person that you relied on the most turned their back on you.

“Just because one person is going through something painful doesn’t mean what you’re experiencing is somehow less relevant”

As everything starts to escalate and his life slowing falling apart, Vic is determined to clear his name and this is what I loved the most. He didn’t hid away and let whatever happen, happen. He stood up and start to unpeel the layers that surrounded the party.

With the help and Callie’s, best friend Autumn, they find out everything is what it seems. Callie doesn’t remember everything from the party, she was drunk and the last thing that she remembers before she passed out was Vic. But as all three of them start putting things together, everything because more unclear.

I did guess who raped Callie, and I didn’t mind it. York left enough clues here and there for the reader to pick up the pieces and it was haunting discovery, especially what happens after.

The relationships throughout Modern Monsters are like roller coasters, there are many ups and downs.

York is a brilliant writer. She manages to capture such a hard topic to talk about, and make it somewhat easy to read. I would have loved more character development and less hints of what happened and other events that unfolded (that I don’t want to talk about, because it will spoil, a very important aspect of the story.

Modern Monsters is beautiful, heartbreaking and moving read that if you are looking for something different, then pick this book up without a second thought.

Have you read Modern Monsters yet? Did you like it? Are you going to?

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