Book Review: Monsterland by Michael Okon

Monsterland by Michael Okon

Synopsis: Welcome to Monsterland, the scariest place on earth.

When world markets are decimated by a crippling plague, philanthropist, and billionaire businessman, Vincent Konrad decides to place monsters in a theme park setting to promote education and tolerance. Copper Valley is chosen as the primary site for the park in the United States.

Wyatt Baldwin, a high school senior is dying to go to the opening and when he lands special passes to the park, he and his friends are expecting the experience of a lifetime.
After all, in a theme park where real zombies, werewolves, and vampires are the main attractions, what could possibly go wrong?

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“Who decides who is human?”

I recieved an ARC copy as I’ve requested to review it in exchange for an honest review.

Monsterland all in all wasn’t really a bad book. I found some of the characters well-rounded, and some of them not so much. The plot was quite predicatable although I did like the idea and theme of the story, I just had a quite hard time plowing through it. The story had a lot of switching POV’s between the characters, which I think was one of the reasons I kind of found it a bit of a “meh” and sometimes I find the chapters a tad bit too short, or maybe too long without that much action that I find it borderlining to boring. The writing style is not much of my thing but I liked how the author shaped the story and how he made it to take shape in the reader’s head.

A rather suspenseful and thrilling novel, great for Zombies, Vampires and Werewolves fan. Although for me in all honesty, there was a lot of potential in this book but it didn’t rather live up to my expectations.

I give this book 3 ⭐

Not So Currently Reading

We’ve all experienced that one (or more) time/s where we’ve been “currently reading” a book that’s been opened and read to only a couple of pages, but then we just STOP because we’re just not into it or is just not our taste, or it’s quite boring. I’m pretty sure we’ve experienced all that in some point of our bookworm lives, right? And I am about to tell a little tale about my personal experience of that situation right here.

And why am I suddenly having the urge to tell all about this?

Because I’m experiencing that RIGHT NOW.

Do any of you have Goodreads? I’m pretty sure you guys do. Because this particular site is what spiked me to write this article about ‘not so currently reading‘ for I have marked/put one book in my ‘Currently Reading’ shelf and it has been sitting there for ages. Okay, maybe just a month. But for me, that felt like a very, very, very long time because once I put a book in my ‘Currently Reading’ shelf, I am ACTUALLY currently reading it. And that says a lot about a book that has been sitting on my shelf, unread, for about a month. But it’s not like that I’d come to read all of the books that are in my shelf, because I haven’t. But that latter situation is different because I CHOSE NOT to read those books, and why is that? Probably because I have a big problem about ending books that just have too good of a story that I’m dreading to finish the final chapter, finish the story, finish everything. That actually happened when I was reading the Divergent Series. I personally didn’t touch Allegiant months after I’ve finished Insurgent. Or maybe it reached a year. I was just THAT scared of ending the story. And add the apprehension of ALREADY KNOWING that Tris was going to die BEFORE I read the book. I HATE SPOILERS. Because those things just SUCK. Those things made me cry way ahead of time, and I just- UGH!!

Does that make me a spoiler now?

Oopsies.

Anyway, we’ll take that subject up another time. #stressing

[Back to the topic.]

Now, what do I do when I START to get bored with a book? I continue of course!

Not the answer you were expecting?

Well, here’s what I think: You were just STARTING to get bored with a book and you haven’t even reached the middle, yet. And trust me, the middle part is where the good things actually start to happen. I’ve experienced that more than once when a book just started off as a drag and I just WANT to give up, toss the book away (in a figurative way because I could never do that) pout in the corner, and whine. I’ve experienced that a couple of times, but what did I do? I picked up the book, and read it. And I didn’t regret doing that because I would’ve missed quite an interesting story if I shoved the book under the mat and left it there to rot.

On another note, it’s okay not to finish a book if it just rips your brains out of your head because of the boredom it’s inflicting on your part. I experienced that once, too, and I gave up on the book. Personally, I just try to reach halfway of the book and see if it gets any better, before finally giving up.

And that, right there, is a piece of advice.

But people’s opinion do vary, and I just voiced mine.

So, what do you do when you start to get bored of a book? Share your thoughts and story of your ‘not so currently reading’ experience!