Hello friends, happy Friday, I hope you’ve all had a great week! Today I’m posting my review of Kara Thomas’ novel Little Monsters.

Little Monsters by: Kara Thomas: Kacey is the new girl in the town of Broken Falls. Moving in with her dad’s family after years battling it with her mother, she’s starting to find her place with a small group of friends, Bailey and Jade. But after Bailey and Jade drag Kacey and her sister Lauren out to do a séance in an abandoned barn, things aren’t the same with Bailey and not long after that she goes missing. Now, Kacey and Jade are on a wild chase to find her and what happened to her. This was a twisty, whodunit, novel that definitely had the reader on their toes until the end. That being said though, the reader found themselves frustrated most of the time reading this. It didn’t start off great, the reader off the bat didn’t like any of the characters; they just didn’t have any redeemable qualities. This is told through Kacey’s point of view and when she’s not out of her mind looking for her friend she’s stuck in this wow-is-me battle of being a burden and it gets tiring to read because that’s her only quality, she has no personality, aside being the new girl, with a ‘bad girl’ past. Then we have journal entries sprinkled in from Bailey and she’s such an unreliable narrator. In the beginning entries she acts one way, which gave us insight into the plot, which the reader appreciated, but then she does a complete 180, which is seen to throw the reader off the case, but then she changes again near the end, leaving her to sound neurotic. She also doesn’t have a single noteworthy quality about her besides wanting to leave town and being boy crazy. Then there’s Jade who doesn’t have a point of view, for a reason the reader now understands, and she’s just as boring and deranged as Bailey and the reader can’t figure out which of them is worse because they both want to kill Kacey for different reasons. Lauren and Andrew were probably the only characters who had any qualities that were interesting and redeemable, they were nice people with hobbies. Also, the author went on and on about this barn, which annoyed the reader. What the reader did like was the pacing of the plot, it was fast-paced and not only did it help them get through it but helped forget how boring the characters were because things were moving so quickly. There were a few hints and people the reader thought it could be but by the end the reader was just reading so they could find out who did it and why. Even when we did find out who was behind it all, it didn’t feel quite wrapped up or justified as to why it was that person. In the end, if you’re looking for a quick, easy, whodunit novel, this could be for you, unfortunately it wasn’t for this reader.