I decided to read this book because I liked the Monster High animated shorts online. If you decide the same thing, be forewarned that the book is nothing like the shorts. I knew this going in, but I still kept trying to force what I knew about the shorts into this book. Having said that, I really liked this book. It does a great job of standing on its own. I liked going back and forth between Frankie and Melody's p.o.v. I also liked most of the characters. Some were annoying as heck, though. I w More...

The Quick and the Dirty...a new and cutsie take on monsters

Why I was tempted to read this...I thought it sounded good and you gotta love the name Frankie Stein

Cover thoughts...Somewhat plain, but I like it simple like that, eye catching

Romance Meter...There was some, but there wasn't as much as I had hoped for. A lot of one girl liking a guy that likes someone else.

Character and Plot...I think I was expecting something dark and creepy with all the monsters walking around the high school, but the More...

This book is thrilling and awesome book and I love I just got it Yesterday and I love and have not put it down yet

REVIEW
What a clever idea! A story set at a high school where the children of monsters (aka RADs) are part of the student body. Add to that, the non-monster students (aka normies) are starting to suspect that something is up with some of their classmates. The main character RAD is even named Frankie Stein. I told you it was clever.
Monster High is a nice mix of spooky, mystery, high school drama, action, and even a little romance. There’s just enough of everything. I liked that the action kept mov More...

Awful perfectly describes this story. My best friend loves these books and told me to read them. At first I turned them down, but she finally coaxed me-- I was intrigued. When I got the books, I was excited and started reading right away. When I finished I tried starting the second but gave up. I couldn't do it. First of all, the plot is kinda boring. Just boring. Not much to say for it. But the worst is the characters. Melody's an annoying and naïve idiot. She constantly goes on these useless l More...

To be honest, I like chick-lits, though almost half of the total population hate them (I think). So yeah, the time I first saw Monster High I kept squealing at the uber-girly cover. I thought, omigush if I'm reading this book, like, right now, I'd have seizures for sure! Annoying much, right? So one time during weekends I was with my father inside the bookstore. I kept my eyes on the last Monster High book on the store's shelves saying: "You are not going to any other owner but me." And instantl More...

Hmm a book based on girly monster dolls? Yup this book turned out exactly how I thought it'd be. Extremely shallow but still rather cute.

So this book starts out with Melody Carver and her family moving from California to Salem, Oregon because of her terrible asthma. She had also just gotten a nose job that apparently made her uber pretty, and yet she feels like a fraud.

Switch to Frankie Stein. She is also a new student at Merston High, and only 15 days old. I guess being the granddaughter of Fra More...

I was influenced to watch the animated Monster High webseries by my close friend, and I really enjoyed it. It was unique from most girly shows in that each monster embraced their own uniqueness and showed that it's cool to be abnormal. So when I saw this book I thought I might as well give it a shot. First off, I was really annoyed how every single person in the school wore only extremely expensive fashion brands??? No high school, "normie" or "monster" would possibly be like that. Then there wa More...

Voici un livre que j’avais vraiment hâte de découvrir ! Ne serait-ce que par l’univers crée autour (goodies, chanson, série animée..) mais aussi parce que c’était l’évènement du moment et qu’on en entendait parler un peu partout. Castelmore était d’ailleurs présent sur le salon du livre avec un stand uniquement dédié à cette nouvelle saga.

Et bien finalement j’ai été assez déçue du contenu. Le livre est trop jeunesse à mon goût. Peu consistant, je trouve qu’il se passe trop peu de choses dans ce More...

This book is great for girls who love to read anything fantasy or out of the ordinary. It mainly circles around 15 day-old Frankie Stein (daughter of mad scientists) and Melody Carver (human). Frankie has to face big changes such as coating her entire body in flesh colored makeup and hiding her neck rods to look like a human so she can attend regular school, trying to make friends among the most hostile crowd, and keeping her monstrous secret under wraps! However she meets several monsters at he More...

Cover:

Monster High, just proves that not all books with monsters or creatures, you would "think" don't really exist, have to be scary, or horror books.

From the cute diamond skull with the big pink bow, to the leather background, with pink stitching, this cover just screams cute.

I've seen the other two Monster High books, that are so far out, and I think this cover would have to be my favorite...I think it's because of all of the pink(:

Story Line:

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Melody is a normal fifteen year old girl. She has packed her stuff and is moving to a smaller town along with her parents and her older sister, Candace, in hopes that Melody’s asthma will get better. She’s a girl who no one really thought was beautiful, especially with her larger nose, until her plastic surgeon father helps to fix up her nose so she will fit in better to their Beverly Hills lifestyle. Except now that Melody has moved to a new to More...

This was cute. It's a fairly middle-of-the-road YA that probably got bumped up in my estimation because I'm a huge fan of the dolls and the web series. The novel deviates a bit from the animated canon, setting the characters into a high school that is integrated with non-monsters; the whole monster thing is a huge secret, which sets up some tension and moves the plot. The novel also introduces a "normie" girl, Melody Carver, to give the opposite perspective.

The story begins with the Carver fami More...

This book is really entertaining and interesting. The topic is a good concept. I personally think that this book would inspire other tweens and teens to enjoy reading. The book is a bit of a drama as well as an action. The main characters are Frankie Stein and Melody Carver. The fact that this book talks about monsters are sure to give you clue that this book will have a twist to it or it's going to be different.


Rating section: For the stars, i give it 5/5 stars. For the scale; on a scale from More...

i think monster high is the best thing in the whole world!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! More...

i don't like chicklits.. they are shallow and immature. so i have to forgive my self for being a fan of these series.. Yups! Lisi Harrison is "VOLTAGE!"

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Reconozco que es difícil, para mí, puntuar esta novela, ya que me encuentro ante un género que prácticamente desconozco… porque pese a ser juvenil, es bastante más infantil que libros como Crepúsculo, o Química perfecta… así que no tengo mucho con que comparar. Una vez que he dejado claro mi punto de vista, me limitaré a dar mis opiniones (muy personales), sobre Monster High:

Una sorpresa, eso ha sido. Me ha parecido original, adictiva y entretenidísima. Es verdad que su trama no es muy profunda, More...

First off, a lot of people are saying the dolls are based off of this. It's actually the other way around. The dolls came first.

Okay, there is no second thing.

So. This book is about new girl Frankie Stein (granddaughter of Frankenstein) and Melody Carver. Frankie was created by her father, Viktor, and lives in Salem, Oregon. Melody moved to Salem because she has asthma, and Salem has fresh air.

It turns out there are other monsters in Salem. They are called RADs, which is a nice way of the word m More...

It was kind of cute and fairly humorous in places, but (and there's always a but), although I know the book is based off a series of fashion dolls, you can't deny that the book is filled with ridiculously shallow (and in many cases, extremely obnoxious) characters. The fact that the extremely naive newcomer gets it in her head to then tackle heavy themes like bigotry just feels embarrassing since it really just doesn't mesh with the constant teen pop-culture references (a girl who places a Biebe More...

My granddaughter turned nine this past week and her newest rage is "Monster High". She wanted a birthday party with a Monster High theme so my daughter asked me to help her come up with some ideas. Well, I didn't have a clue what Monster High was except that my granddaughter talked about it all the time and went around with her nose crammed into the spine of a pretty pink book. That's right these characters are not based on a cartoon or any other type of media. They are based on a book and if an More...

The book “Monster High” is overall, a very good book. The plot of the story revolves around fitting in during your high school years. With a twist. The main characters (for the most part) all have something in common: They are mythological/fantasy/horror-movie creatures’ children. From Dracula to Cleopatra and The Wolfman. The book starts out a bit slow but quickly becomes an interesting read that you will not want to put down. The story covers all bases, from fitting in with the “in-crowd”, hav More...

This was a fun light read. At first I was afraid to read it because it was by Lisi Harrison and the whole concept of the Clique series annoys me and makes me a little bit sad. But I loved the cover and concept so much that I finally caved and I am so glad I did.

The story is told from two points of view, Frankie Stein the fifteen day old grandaughter of Frankenstein's monster, and Melody a transplant from Los Angeles who has always felt like an outcast because she wasn't perfect (although her pl More...

Monster High is your typical teen high school drama book with a splash of monster madness. No not a splash. Make that a wave! It's a great mash up and fun to read.

If you've seen the Monster High webseries don't expect this book to be exactly the same. They are both based on the dolls created by Garrett Sander for Mattel but the webisodes take place in an all ghoul school called Monster High whereas the book series takes place around Merston High which schools monsters and "normies." In the webse More...

This review originally appeared at Black Mamba Boy and The Life and Times of Michael K, I was perfectly happy to while away a few hours with a light and fluffy book, and a tongue-in-cheek read offering a more humorous take on the recent spate of paranormal teen novels sounded right up my alley. But while I wasn't expecting Proustian exposition or Dostoyevskian characterisation, I was expecting something a little more well-rounded and with a stronger internal logic, and certainly something with a More...

3.5 Stars

In a perfect world…in Frankie Stein’s world, it’s little more than wishful thinking that monsters and normies get along. Barely fifteen days old, and birthed in her father’s lab (aka Fab) with the Glitterati (her pet white mice) looking out for her wardrobe selections, Frankie could be just like any teen. With the exception of the bolts in her neck, her minty green complexion, and the seams that are holding her appendages together that could rival Sally’s in Nightmare Before Christmas. More...

My almost ten year old step-daughter loves the monster high dolls and videos; on a trip to the library she saw the first book and begged me to let her read it. Since it is marketed as a YA novel, I wasn't comfortable just saying yes, so I decided to read it and figure out if it would be a good fit for her.

Upon reading the first book, I was able to create a lists of thing I liked and things I despised from this book.

Likes:

I enjoyed the fact that the author used the original stories of the monst More...