Monster Love

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I'm all right with feeling ambivalent feelings towards book characters, even two as irredeemably horrible as Brendan and Sherilyn. Told through the Gutteridges' voices, and those of their families, neighbours, and those who will come across them in the aftermath, this perverse love story hurtles to the heart of evil - the evil that could be anyone's next door neighbour.

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All the characters seemed to be caricatures of a 'type' and the psychoanalytic psychologist background of the author made me feel uncomfortable, as though actual known individuals were being ridiculed or manipulated for personal gain. uk the author reveals 'I wanted to explore what lies behind the kind of tabloid headlines that scream "PERVERT! The story is told in a series of first person narratives from nosy neighbours, unknowing work colleagues and family members to the couple themselves, and the shifting views adds brilliantly to the drama of the book. I was fascinated by the story which develops through the eyes of various persons involved in it: from the neighbours and parents to the police officers. Then - we start to get into the realms of the unbelievable with the weird psychic relationship and I lost interest rather.

And as I felt appaled of this having happened, the story extracts all emotion out of it and leaves only a dry and decaying lump of a novel. I felt the ending of the novel was honestly a bit naff, a bit predictable honestly and a bit cheesy, but I don't know how else the story was to be wrapped up, so I suppose it couldn't be helped. It is the same frisson of pleasure that almost every queer female artist I know felt watching Cate Blanchett in “Tár.

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The revelation of Davis’s abuse made Cleage want to “break his albums, burn his tapes and scratch up his CDs.The second seriously silly adventure in the hilarious series that turns everything you thought you knew about monsters upside down! Yes, the story is awful, yes, Brendan and Sherilyn are true monsters (but the book sheds some light as to how those two "monsters" are themselves the product and victims of monstruous parents, although this is no excuse), yes, the mere idea of little Samantha dead since weeks in her cage is gruesome - but it is superbly constructed. During this “frantic phase,” she “spent many memorable evenings sending messages of great personal passion through the intricate improvisations of Kind of Blue. I also felt like Topolski was trying to justify or explain their monstrous actions - to somehow make it a safer read for us.