Monsters: A Love Story by Liz Kay

Monsters: A Love Story by Liz Kay
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

While on the surface we seem to be focused on a slowly developing relationship, there's a lot of darkness under the surface of this book. It's not all darkness, and I enjoyed spending 2-3 years in the lives of the characters because it really gives time for all the friendships and relationships to develop naturally. However, the characters are deeply flawed and realistic and reveal their good and bad characteristics as you get to know them. The bad personality traits are pretty serious though and there’s a dark controlling undercurrent tugging at the romance in the book.

Also, there's an Escher-esk quality to it because the themes of the fictional epic poem are the themes of the real novel, Monsters. The main character Stacey is a poet and she has an epic poem that is being developed into a movie. The epic poem is about feminism, control, and mythological power, and the things that are happening during the development of the movie are decidedly not feminist, all the while the characters are fighting for creative and romantic control.

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