Eliza and Her Monsters
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4.4 • 74 Ratings
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Publisher Description
“A love letter to fandom, friendship, and the stories that shape us, Eliza and Her Monsters is absolutely magical.”—Marieke Nijkamp, New York Times–bestselling author of This Is Where It Ends
Eighteen-year-old Eliza Mirk is the anonymous creator of the wildly popular webcomic Monstrous Sea, but when a new boy at school tempts her to live a life offline, everything she’s worked for begins to crumble.
Rainbow Rowell’s Fangirl meets Noelle Stevenson’s Nimona in this acclaimed novel about art, fandom, and finding the courage to be yourself. “A must-have.”—School Library Journal
In the real world, Eliza Mirk is shy, weird, and friendless. Online, Eliza is LadyConstellation, anonymous creator of a popular webcomic called Monstrous Sea. With millions of followers and fans throughout the world, Eliza’s persona is popular. Eliza can’t imagine enjoying the real world as much as she loves her digital community.
Then Wallace Warland transfers to her school and Eliza begins to wonder if a life offline might be worthwhile. But when Eliza’s secret is accidentally shared with the world, everything she’s built—her story, her relationship with Wallace, and even her sanity—begins to fall apart.
With pages from Eliza’s webcomic, as well as screenshots from Eliza’s online forums, this book will appeal to fans of Noelle Stevenson’s Nimona and Rainbow Rowell’s Fangirl.
Young Adult Library Services Association Best Book
Best Fiction for Young Adults Top Ten
Kirkus Best Book
Texas Tayshas Pick
A Secret Online Life: By day, she’s a quiet loner. By night, she’s LadyConstellation, the beloved creator of a webcomic with millions of fans who have no idea she’s a teenager.A Friends to Lovers Romance: When Wallace, a new student and the biggest fanfiction writer for Monstrous Sea, enters her life, Eliza must navigate a real-world relationship that’s even more complicated than her fictional ones.Art, Fandom, and Creativity: Filled with pages from Eliza’s webcomic and excerpts from online forums, this novel is a love letter to creating the stories that save us.An Introvert Finding Her Voice: When her online and offline worlds collide, Eliza must find the courage to be herself, even if it means risking everything she’s built.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Eliza Mirk, 18, has a secret one that only her immediate family knows: she is LadyConstellation, the creator of the hugely popular webcomic Monstrous Sea. Eliza's plan is to quietly finish high school (and the comic), then head off to college where she won't be known as the weird, friendless girl. Things don't go as planned after she meets Wallace, a diehard fan of Monstrous Sea and an equally broken fan fiction writer. Zappia (Made You Up) uses her own illustrated Monstrous Sea panels to punctuate elements of the narrative and to show how Eliza and Wallace find solace in fandom. LadyConstellation is eventually outed, painfully and publicly, causing Eliza to spiral into depression, self-harm, and thoughts of suicide. Zappia's lighter approach to these topics doesn't diminish the strength of this sensitive and compassionate story or the message mirrored in the themes of the webcomic: there are monsters in the world, both real and imaginary, and without support systems, those monsters can cause great harm. Ages 14 up.
Customer Reviews
I love this!!
This book is so good! If someone asked me what my favorite book to this day was I would have to say this one. I bought this book as a paperback a few years ago and I loved it so much that when ever I need a book I know I am going to enjoy I go and grab this one! The first time I was reading it I could not put it down to the point my dad had to get on to me a 3am about reading.
Satisfying to Read
Written in a truly unique way with perfect wording. A great book for adolescents!
Not for me
Webcomics aren’t even real comics. Unless you draw them on a piece of paper it’s not real, the whole process of scanning a page on a computer is just silly! Why does art have to be digitalized to be admired!? Why can’t people write comics down physically and just hand them out! What’s so hard about that!? And plus Eliza doesn’t want to listen to her parents at all in this book. She’s just horrible to them. (Her character is my only flaw in this book, but the rest is fine I guess. Ignore my ramblings)