Mr. Monster

Compelling but, Jeez, it's dark.

I loved it.

I liked this entry even better than the first. John was just as well characterized as in the first one, but I had a mind shift.
Once again with the first book, the midpoint supernatural pulled me away, but in retrospect, it shouldn't. It just came off the blue like nothing. In contrast with this book I already knew was I was getting into and it made it more enjoyable. (yes I have updated my review of the first entry)

Now let's talk about the book:
Dann Wells has managed to do an amazing characterization of John Cleaver and somehow manages that empathize with a person incapable of empathizing with other persons, it just blows my mind.
I also found pretty wholesome the transformation John goes through through the book, don't get me wrong, he is messed up, but I feel like he is slowly becoming human. I also liked that we followed directly with the psychological consequences of the ending of the first book. It just leaves me wondering what a dark place will john be at the start of the third book. I just hope he doesn't give into Mr Monster.

All in all, if you liked the first one, especially if you liked John Cleaver as a character, then you should give this one a go.

The first book in this series was good. Mr Monster was insanely great! Also one of the best narrators for an audiobook I've listened to yet.

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Audio read by: Kirby Heyborne

He's all charisma
a chick (and demon) magnet
playing hard to get.

It took me less than two days to finish this. Just as lovely as the first installment. Just as creepy. Blah blah, character development, blah blah, setup for the next story... which, by the way, I'm going to start just as soon as I finish vacuuming my apartment.

Dan Wells' gift is that he can make the reader like a sociopath. He captures the skill of creating an anti-hero, and makes it firmly his own. I cannot wait until the third installment of the John Cleaver series. I won a pre-release copy of Mr. Monster from the publisher and Goodreads, and was thrilled when I learned I won, thrilled while waiting for the book to arrive, thrilled while anticipating its read...and now thrilled to have read it. What a rush, what a ride.