Monster High
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From Lisi Harrison, the New York Times bestselling leader of The Clique and Alphas, comes a new series with a fresh twist on high school, romance, and the “horrors” of trying to fit in.
The monster community has kept a low profile at the local high school, but when two new girls enroll, the town will never be the same. Made just fifteen days ago, Frankie Stein is psyched to trade her father’s formaldehyde-smelling basement lab for parties and prom.
But with a student body really freaked out by rumors of monsters stalking the halls, Frankie learns that high school can be rough for a chic freak like her. She thinks she finds a friend in fellow new student Melody Carver-but can a “normie” be trusted with her huge secret?
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Frankie Stein is tickled when her parents tell her that she is ready to go to school. Frankie has high hopes for high school – she can’t wait to make friends and to finally have the chance to wear her incredible wardrobe out in public. She’s spent her whole life (all 15 days of it) inside her father’s lab (a/k/a the Fab) and her only friends are the Glitterati (her pet mice) and her parents. Aside from her mint green skin, the thick bolts in her neck and the seams that are holding her appendages together, she would fit right in. But Frankie is none to pleased when she is told that she and RAD’s (additional monsters like her) have to blend in with the normie’s (random normal folk). Generations of RAD’s have establish safe haven in Salem, Oregon and cannot risk the chaos and uproar that a monster siting might cause – witch hunt anyone?
So off to “normie” school she goes under tons of make-up and conservative clothing to hide her more “original” traits. There she meets additional monster teens who quickly befriend her Claudine (Clawdeen), Draculaura, Lagoona Blue, Deuce, D.J./Jackson Hyde, and Cleo.
In alternating chapters from Frankie’s POV, you also meet new student and town resident, but more importantly, normie, Melody Carver. Melody and her family tree have just stirred to Salem from Beverly Hills. Merston High and the town of Salem, Oregon, are in for a surprise when their September Semi (ironically themed “Monster Mash”) – gets a tad bit more ghoulier then anticipated.
Oh, but I loved Frankie. She’s such a sweet thing. I loved her attitude, her like of who she is and what she looks like really gives a positive vibe to the tale. Ms. Harrison truly makes her shine throughout Monster High’s pages. Although we do read a lot about Melody, and I did delight in her chapters, Frankie’s tale was so much more appealing. I loved the mystery of who was a monster and who was a normie…. I kept trying to guess which monster the kids were… I establish myself reasonably entertained by this.
I will forewarn that there is a cliff-hanger ending – so be prepared to be left feeling nervous for the next book. What will take place to Frankie, Melody, and their friends? The writing is witty, fun and certainly appealing for tweens. Super cute tale and one that I reflect will be a sure hit with young-ins plus there are some fantastic messages scattered throughout. You guys also have to check out their “RAD” website. This is the start to what seems to be a very promising series. I can’t wait to see what happens next.
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5
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 unadorned sight of the “normies”. And while I don’t reflect 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 certainly right to themselves and wanted to be liked for who they were and not what they looked like. Which would be a excellent 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 reflect 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 tale.
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5
I establish the “Monster High” web cartoons online to be reasonably cute, with plain & distinct characters and a fun setting. When I heard about this book, I was excited to see this world explored in the depths that only prose can really reach.
Boy, was I disappointed.
Lisi Harrison rumor has it that took her notes for an unpublished “Clique” novel and forced them into the Monster High concept. The fun, plain characters from the web cartoons are replaced with flat characters who do everything possible to hide what makes them visually appealing, including whiteface (which is all sorts of incorrect). The only new additions Harrison brings are more castaways from the “Clique”, and we get our requisite like triangle, since any book series aimed at women MUST force in a romance by law. The like triangle is the only place where Harrison shows any sort of creativity, since it’s a twist on Jekyll & Hyde, but additional than that, she seems more concerned with dropping as many designer & brand names as possible than really writing an appealing tale. In the hands of a writer whose imagination isn’t limited to whatever fashion rag she most recently read, this couldn’ve been a excellent book, but Harrison rumor has it that can only write what she sees on Style Network, not actual characters.
Mattel gave Harrison a wonderful, imaginative world to work with, and she threw all that away for a whitewashed pretty-people festival, just like all of her own series. Why an leader so devoid of any right imagination was agreed this series, let alone is well loved, is beyond me. Avoid this if you have any respect for writing as a craft or even just for using your imagination beyond picturing yourself in the latest issue of “Seventeen”.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
I first thought that the book was going to be scary or at least a thriller, then I turned the book around and saw the highly girly take in. I still really liked the plot and the thought and so I bought it (luckily from Wal-mart). I had seen the commercial first when they show the characters and you can go online and join Monster High. I really like the names that Lisi gave her characters (Clawdeen, Draculaura, lagoona blue…)but when I read it it was very girly and light and reasonably cheesy, and was so annoyed how the leader kept building Frankie say VOLTAGE as cool. I got pretty confused with the POVs of both characters,although it was a simple tale. Major name dropping, very annoying. In the end, I’ll keep the book and read it again but I was dissapointed in the long run.
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5
I need to admit that I’m biased against this book because I do not like Frankenstein tales. Even the original literary tale isn’t my favorite, and every Frankenstein’s monster spinoff I’ve ever read or seen just didn’t connect with me. I wanted to give this one a try, but I’m worried it didn’t shake me out of my dislike for Frankenstein-ish tales.
Frankie Stein looks fifteen years ancient, but she’s really fifteen days ancient, a green-skinned girl who was made by her mad scientist parents, who are themselves Frankenstein monsters, but nice ones. Frankie goes to Merston High, a place full of both monsters and normies, as does Melody, a new normie girl who gets her own POV to balance out Frankie’s. They both deal with bullying, prejudices, and first likes, and they eventually try to answer the huge question: can the monsters be open about who they are and still be accepted?
This book is an unusual mix of ancient school non-scary creature feature monsters and modern day gossip & fashion filled books. Many, many, many brand names are mentioned in Monster High, and I prefer for that sort of name-dropping to be limited in a book, unless it’s specifically a high society type of tale. Everyone except Melody seems to be incredibly interested in fashion, to the point that Frankie questions for fashion advice from her intelligent pets, a bunch of white lab rats she calls the Glitterati. In addition to clothing brands, plenty of composition stars get shout-outs, too. A girl named Lala is wearing “a pair of pink knee-high lace-up boots that Lady Gaga would go gaga for” (pg 67) and another girl named Chloe is said to be “projecting Rihanna fabulousness in brown glitter kneesocks, a formfitting denim minidress, and gold wedges,” (pg 76) and later on Chloe is sporting an unusual furnish that is “so Rihanna at the 2009 American Composition Awards” (pg 122).
Also, most of the secondary characters feel like they’re language their own unique-to-them language, and I’m sure it could all be very amusing if you’re in the right mood for it, but I had distress following what they were adage. For example, Frankie and others use the word “voltage” to mean “cool,” Melody’s sister Candace insists that anyone who is both cute and nerdy be referred to as “curdy,” one of the side characters uses Australian slang, and so on. There are also a lot of monster puns and the girls at school have secret monster names like Draculaura and Clawdeen.
Frankie and Melody both have crushes, and there’s a lot of mild drama, but the tale feels more like a cartoon movie where you know that nothing really terrible is going to take place, and lacking realistic consequences, it’s hard to feel real concern or elation as a reader.
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5