Her story is a phenomenon. Her life is a disaster.
In the real world, Eliza Mirk is shy, weird, and friendless. Online, she’s LadyConstellation, the anonymous creator of the wildly popular webcomic Monstrous Sea. Eliza can’t imagine enjoying the real world as much as she loves the online one, and she has no desire to try.
Then Wallace Warland, Monstrous Sea’s biggest fanfiction writer, transfers to her school. Wallace thinks Eliza is just another fan, and as he draws her out of her shell, she begins to wonder if a life offline might be worthwhile.
But when Eliza’s secret is accidentally shared with the world, everything she’s built—her story, her relationship with Wallace, and even her sanity—begins to fall apart.
I love this book so much.
This story in a way saved my life.
Here’s a quick gist of the book is about in case you were too lazy to read the synopsis. This book is about a girl name Eliza who is a webcomic creator to this popular series called Monstrous Sea but no one know’s she’s the author since she displays herself anonymous. She meets a guy from school named Wallace who’s a fan of Monstrous Sea and then stuff happens!
I will say this again.
I love this book.
Although the cover is cute, it is not your cute quick contemporary reads. This book is actually pretty dark and involves mental issues such as anxiety, depression, and suicide.
What makes me really love the book is how much I can relate to characters. If I were to name this review, I would name it #relatable because everything about Eliza is just so dang relatable.
Raise your hand if you’ve been personally victimized by parents who just don’t understand you.
Raise your hand if you’re socially awkward
Raise your hand if you get anxiety being in a public setting
Raise your hand if you’re just a nerd who rather spend time in their room on the internet than go out in the real world and socialize
If you raised your hand to all of this, then you’re an Eliza as well.
Most of my reviews are more discussions than actually reviewing the book but as a reviewer I have no major issues in the book I really want to talk about. Like I said I loved it and all I want to do is hold the book and forever because it was just so #relatable!
And not only with Eliza but Wallace too. He comes from a home where his stepfather doesn’t believe in writing as a real career. I understood Wallace’s frustration towards his stepfather and how can you live life without doing the things you’re passionate about?
“What’s the point of being alive if you don’t do what makes you happy? What good is a career that makes you money if you hate yourself every day you do it? I don’t have a family to support. I don’t have bills to pay, at least not right now. Sure, I’ll have to pay student loans, but we only have enough money for me to go to community college anyway, so I’ll pay it of with whatever job to get after that. I don’t need to be a doctor, or a lawyer, or whatever important job he wants me to get. I just want to write.”
Eliza and Her Monsters
#relatable
I think Wallace and Eliza are cute together! I like that even though they got together, they were still friends. Usually I get kind of bored after the two love interests get together and start being all couple-y but not Eliza and Wallace and their moments were just too adorable!
I also like how Eliza starts being close with her brothers after her identity has been found out and Eliza starts realizing her family are actual people with actual lives and she starts to take notice the smallest things they do.
Sully rolls his eyes. Mom and Dad are too old to get it. They didn’t even have cells phone when they were younger. Maybe Googling it wouldn’t have helped them.” He rubs his nose. Anyway, if you need to, like, talk to someone, you know where to find me and Church.”
“That’s-that would be nice, actually.” My voice is small, but Sully’s expression opens up. After a moment’s hesitation, he slips into the room, shuts the door behind him, and sits with his legs curled up on the opposite end of my bed. “Thanks,” I say. Sully smiles at me for the first time I can remember.
Eliza and Her Monsters
There’s just so much messages in this book that I wish I had a better way of telling. If I were to give someone a book about me, I would honestly hand over this book because it just gets me, you know. The anxiety, the parents not understanding you, the parents that have their opinions on your future, and enjoying the internet.
This books means so much to me in every way and taught me so much that I’m going to use towards real life. All I want to do is hug this book really.
I recommend this book to nerdy and geeky people like myself who rather sit in their room all day on the internet. I rate this five out of five stars!
Thanks for reading!
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