The Monsters Among Us
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5.0 • 1 Rating
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Publisher Description
Seth's life until now has been a product of a diabolical, evil Truman Show, his entire upbringing a façade orchestrated for malevolent purposes. After his beloved dies, he undergoes a demonic metamorphosis, which causes the world's fictitious walls to crumble.
As he tries to piece a semblance of his life back together and move on, he meets friends who inspire, but even more harsh truths are revealed, perhaps too difficult to cope with.
The very existence of life and reality is exposed as a machination of grotesque gods. And to defeat them, Seth will have to fill his emptiness, for which there's only two options…
Bring the world to ruin, or learn to transmute his pain into strength.
Fans of "Jerusalem" by Alan Moore, "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath, or "The Master and Margarita" by Mikhail Bulgakovor will enjoy "The Monsters Among Us."
Customer Reviews
a must read
Most people who know me know that I don’t really gravitate towards specific genres, and that I don’t typically read in the horror/fantasy market because I just don’t typically see all of the world building in a meaningful way - usually. This is not the same case.
While I’m sure that some of it is lost on me, this story moves with the pacing and clarity of a movie. It is easy to see and to read, while being extreme inventive in its plot and structure. Kent takes our world and turns it on its head: everything we think we know about world religions is given a whole new perspective, casting the reader into a world where the thing most think is their salvation is their damnation. This is not a biblical retelling, in the way we have greek myth retelling or modern adaptions, but a speculative revision, destroying our preconceived notions and creating a new theory. We endure the whirlwind with the protagonist, as he must overcome the horrors of the hand he was dealt in life, with the help of maleficent, yet divine intervention. Even with the fantasy elements, the take away has real life application. We must overcome what happens to us, no matter how unjust, and there is a place in the world for destruction, otherwise we would be without creation, and arguably, we would be without purpose.
The Monsters Among Us is a necessary novel for any reader, regardless of preferred genre.