👹”“There is a small monster in my brain that controls my doubt. The doubt itself is a stupid thing, without sense or feeling, blind and straining at the end of a long chain. The monster though, is smart. It's always watching, and when I am cmpletely sure of myself, it unchains the doubt and lets it run wild. Even when I know it's coming, I can't stop it.” Eliza and Her Monsters by @chessiezappia • 📚A of JAF’s (insta)review: Eliza and her Monsters tells the story of Eliza Mirk, a social outcast/loner who just also happens to secretly be the creator of an insanely famous online webcomic, “Monstrous Sea.” Nobody, not even her fitness/sport obsessive parents or her two younger siblings understand Eliza and her obsession with being online (or the extent of her online persona’s popularity), all she wants to do is escape from high-school, from the small town. Online she isn’t judged or shunned or mocked, she has friends and fans and freedom. With her webcomic she can express herself. And then, she meets Wallace… • Eliza and Her Monsters was a unique book in the sense that, between each chapter you get an illustration and a snippet from the comic that Eliza has created, Monstrous Sea. It took me, unfortunately, over half the book for me to really get into the book, into Eliza’s story at least. From the first mention of Monstrous Sea I was intrigued and wanted to know more, and I really hope the author decides to do a full-length comic one day. But, those are single short pages meant to illustrate and, to a certain degree, parallel/highlight the main story, not supplement it. But once I did get into it, I was absolutely immersed. ••Full review on blog this evening!•• • Bookstagram Challenges: #lilthisorthat: days 14 - pirates or captains (pirate captains? 😂 but honestly, with captains such as Mal Reynolds and space pirates such as Han Solo, how can I pick? I know I know he’s a smuggler technically but shhh) @lifeinlit & @beccasbookishlife #fanaticalbirdjan: days 14 - unique reads (graphic novel excerpts within the story) @fanatical.fantasy & @littleliterarybird #rfabjan18 - day 14 - green books @reviews_from_a_bookworm (at Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates)
