So much so that I’ve read a few lines aloud just to hear the sound the words make together.

Yancey seems to have a thing for alliteration, which is used often throughout the story. It’s very descriptive and even poetic in some spots. “But monsters, I now know, come in all shapes and sizes, and only their appetite for human flesh defines them.” Jump to the Overall section if you’d rather skip the crazy thoughts. Also, this reflection will be long as hell so…yea. I prefer to get the books one at a time as I go along to make sure that I’m still interested in the story.ĭisclaimer: My thoughts on this story are so jumbled that I find it hard to organize them for this post so I’ll do this using bullets. Actually, I enjoyed it so much that I went ahead and bought all the other books in the series, which is something I usually don’t do. I love how the story is narrated and written and I was hooked on it from the beginning all the way to the end. This was one of the best books I read in 2015. Warthrop and Will on quite an adventure on which Will learns that monsters come in many forms and sometimes fear helps as much as it hinders us. Their quest for answers and eventually to root out and kill the anthropophagi takes Dr. The doctor concludes that anthropophagi are in the area and makes preparations to uncover how they appeared on American soil and why in New England within the vicinity of a monstrumologist. They also receive another surprise - a baby anthropophagus within the body of the young woman. The doctor informs Will that the monster is an anthropophagus, a headless predator that resembles humans in stature except its mouth is in its chest. Warthrop and Will receive a visitor with an unusual package - a monster that died while eating a young woman. Pellinore Warthrop, a monstrumologist, a scientist who studies organisms generally considered monsters and, in some cases, hunts them. In this book, the first volume of his diaries, it’s 1888 and Will is the 12-year-old orphaned apprentice to Dr. They were found after he died (sometime in 2007) and given to Rick Yancey. The story that makes up The Monstrumologist is relayed in the diaries of Will Henry. Would he go so deep as to show humanity in monsters and monstrosity in humans? How far would Yancey go in his exploration of monsters, I wondered. After reading the synopsis, I decided to get it. It was the title that caught my attention. Usually I only purchase books I’m already familiar with online but this time, I picked up something new. This is the first time that while online shopping I’ve had an experience akin to shopping in a bookstore.

Rick yancey the monstrumologist series