Destroy All Monsters
Written by Sam J. Miller
Narrated by Brittany Pressley and Zach Webber
3.5/5
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About this audiobook
A crucial, genre-bending tale, equal parts Ned Vizzini and Patrick Ness, about the life-saving power of friendship.
Solomon and Ash both experienced a traumatic event when they were twelve.
Ash lost all memory of that event when she fell from Solomon’s treehouse. Since then, Solomon has retreated further and further into a world he seems to have created in his own mind. One that insulates him from reality, but crawls with foes and monsters . . . in both animal and human form.
As Solomon slips further into the place he calls Darkside, Ash realizes her only chance to free her best friend from his pain is to recall exactly what happened that day in his backyard and face the truth—together.
Fearless and profound, Sam J. Miller’s follow up to his award-winning debut novel, The Art of Starving, spins an intimate and impactful tale that will linger with readers.
Sam J. Miller
Sam J. Miller is the Nebula-Award-winning author of The Art of Starving (an NPR best of the year) and Blackfish City (a best book of the year for Vulture, Entertainment Weekly, and more). A recipient of the Shirley Jackson Award and a graduate of the Clarion Writers’ Workshop, Sam's short stories have been nominated for the World Fantasy, Theodore Sturgeon, and Locus Awards, and reprinted in dozens of anthologies. A community organizer by day, he lives in New York City.
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Reviews for Destroy All Monsters
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I didn't realize this was a YA book when I started it. While I normally don't read that genre, the story was intriguing enough that I wanted to see how it played out. While the melodrama seemed a bit excessive, the core story was good. I thought of several possible ways the book could end as I was reading it. Frankly, the actual ending was not one of the possibilities I though of, but it was also not terribly interesting.