Eliza and Her Monsters

by Francesca Zappia

Eighteen-year-old Eliza Mirk is the anonymous creator of Monstrous Sea, a wildly popular webcomic, but when a new boy at school tempts her to live a life offline, everything she’s worked for begins to crumble.

In the real world, Eliza Mirk is shy, weird, smart, and friendless. Online, Eliza is LadyConstellation, the 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 uniquely formatted book will appeal to fans of Noelle Stevenson’s Nimona and Rainbow Rowell’s Fangirl.

MY RATING:-🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

I'll give this book a hundred and million stars truly speaking this was such a good book such such a good book i think i might start to cry because of the sheer beautifulness of this book i mean holy crap people this is one of those rarest of rare books that actually gets me and i was like 25 pages in and i was like "Damn she is so much like me!"and that doesn't happens a lot you may think it does but no it doesn't in most of the books people get social anxiety so wrong they don't get how person going through it feels but this book it didn't only get it it expressed it so beautifully.

Truth be told this book had me when it said "perfect for fangirl fans" and i generally don't pick books like these because they generally break my expectations like a balloon in vacuum(yeah keep that in mind in your science class its a fact! as i said i'm very educational)

but this book i can say and i would say it was much more better than fangirl because it covered anxiety there weren't any "insta-friends"who are so nice that they can't help but be your friends which as far as i can tell never happens but this book was so grounded into reality and just captured how high school could be trashy it was perfection utter perfection.

And the internet how it captured it so perfectly how its a breathing lifeline for us how much it means to us how internet is a big kingdom where we can find a new self that's something  and the sheer perfection of it all was unbearable and online friends just this book has so much to offer it completely gets it that talking through a screen doesn't necessarily make online friends any less than real friends that's so not true online friends get you even when real people don't and for people like us anxiety acts as this big snake choking us that we can't even if we wanted to interact with anyone and that is represented in this book too.

And then comes the stories part the exactness of it how one forgets themselves in their stories how one breathes life into a story how everything is blocked out from this world and we go to a different world A world that we created a world we love and i can't say just how accurate it was.Beacause as an(aspiring)writer i get these feelings so much.

So that's it now we can move to our little characters who breathe life into this stories our little lovely monsters (That doesn't even sounds a little weird coming from my mouth considering i think baby crocodiles are much more cuter than puppies yeah i know that i need help you don't need to tell that to me also on that note did you know that crocodiles have the hardest bite but still you could shut their mouth with duct tape???Yeah keep that in mind when you go crocodile riding wait..that's not a real thing? hmm so that's why the zoo keeper yelled at me but nvm)

1)Eliza:-Okay lets just say that she is the best cupcake of all time let's just establish that fact people because this book gets me soooo much that I'm going to cry of its accuracy so she creates this web comic with all kinds of cute monsters in it and crap on a cracker how i want to read that graphic novel because monsters seriously help me I'm such a vile creature but still Eliza is such a little cutie she doesn't talk much with people which frankly is not me because i tend to blabber about books and weird stuff as you can see obviously.and just someday I'll have 6 million followers i have faith in myself.

2)Wallace:- Okay I don't know if you like him but i absolutely hate him and this didn't happen from the start and I quite frankly liked him at the start because when I reveal a plot twist before the protagonist i fell all kinds of lady Sherlock Holmes and feel all kinds of conquering the world vibes(okay maybe those vibes surround me everyday but we'll let it slide) but the way he treated Eliza like dirt and just he was so rude to her and the things he said to her were so mean and he literally shoved her off at the time she needed him most and then she started having these suicidal thoughts and i was on verge of crying and so i did what any red snowflake would do i threw the book down and yelled at it"if you don't go to her you effing A-hole I'm going to stab you in the back and throw you off that goddamn cliff"and the feelings aren't changed trust me on that.

Eliza's brothers' were real nice just so so nice and Eliza so didn't know that but we can all relate but I really didn't like how Eliza treated her parents she was really mean to them and coming from me its alot since I've feelings equal to a green bean so keep that in mind but then the way her parents screwed things up was just A-level screwing so they are even i guess?.

So all in all the things I did like Monster webcomics (I really really  want to read it)blogger having 6 million followers(yeah i'm going to be that blogger someday)Brothers who loved their sisters immensely,.geekiness!

So what I mean to say is dear reader pick this book asap or I'm going to come over your house and read it to you and trust me I've a terrible reading voice you don't want that torture upon yourself trust me on that!

Book Quotes:-

“There is a small monster in my brain that controls my doubt.The doubt itself is a stupid thing, without sense or feeling, blind and straining at the end of a long chain. The monster though, is smart. It's always watching, and when I am completely sure of myself, it unchains the doubt and lets it run wild. even when I know it's coming, I can't stop it.” 

“You found me in a constellation.” 

“There are monsters in the sea.” 

“I'm not normally one to take advice from my fictional characters, but there comes a point in every girl's life where she reaches a crossroads: a night alone with her sweatpants and her favourite television show, or a party with real, live, breathing people.”  

“I'm so tired. I'm tired of anxiety that twists my stomach so hard I can't move the rest of my body. Tired of constant vigilance. Tired of wanting to do something about myself, but always taking easy way out.” 

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