Hello friends, happy Wednesday – I hope everyone is doing well! Today I’m going to be posting my review of the second novel in the Monster trilogy, Villain by: Michael Grant.

You can read my review of book one: Monster

Villain by: Michael Grant: Dillon Poe just wanted to be a comedian, but when he starts to morph into a monster, he begins to use his powers for evil. The only people who can stop him are the heroes who have super powers. Dekka, Shade, Cruz, Malik, and Armo make it their mission to take Dillon down before he can cause anymore destruction. This novel was a whirlwind; there was so much going that it kept the reader going and really made this fast-paced but the plots and the characters kinda fell flat. The novel opens with a nauseating scene and that is how we meet our new villain. At first, this felt like it was going to be a gruesome novel, and for the most part it was, but as we continued to learn and read about our main villain, the character became more and more juvenile and it didn’t really fit the overall story arc. The fact that it was a fourteen-year-old boy and it read as such, made it hard for the reader to take anything that happened seriously. Then on top the way the cops were handling everything made the story feel like a caricature. The fact that we did get to see old characters from the Gone series was nice and the reader really enjoyed that. The newer characters were an alright addition, they didn’t completely have a wow factor to them. The reader gets that Grant is trying to be diverse in his cast, but he keeps hitting his readers over the head with how diverse they are, and giving them the most basic and stereotypical traits of said group, which the reader found a little lacklustre. The way this ended made it seem like the old characters, mixed with the new, are going to come back for one last battle and the reader is slightly intrigued to see how Grant plans to end this series once and for all. All in all, this novel sorta felt like filler for what is to come.