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HERE THERE ARE MONSTERS by Amelinda Berube: Part Two William
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This is the spot to post your thoughts on Part 2: William, pages 95 - 223. Feel free to spoil away. If you haven't read this far yet, please turn away or risk being spoilered.
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Well, that was unfortunate! The monsters have appeared! Let's see what else must be sacrificed. by wood, stone, water and bone.
I'm kind of confused, but still really enjoying the book. I just hope everything gets explained haha.
Psycho Skye story has been told. What he went through after near drowning was pretty brutal. I’m kind of glad someone else got to see the monsters too. I wonder how they will get all that blood. Surely there will be more requests.
I'm not all the way through this section yet, but I keep finding myself wondering if I missed something. Skye keeps alluding to things, but I don't remember reading them. The latest example is on p. 124. She's talking about a dress her friend talked her into buying. It's shredded and scattered in out-of-the-way parts of one of Deidre's areas. Skye also mentions in her musings that there are bones here, but nothing like she found before. Before when? It's not been written in the earlier parts of the story as far as I can tell. I worried I was reading too fast and missed important bits, but even upon re-reading, I'm not finding clarifications for these references. Is this something you've noticed, too, or is it just me?
She didn't mention this earlier. Skye talks about it later.
I finished this section and need to complete the next section. I like the fact that this "woods" has a primal, old-world mythology to it. It is manipulative and damaging, the way the old folklore warned. I feel bad for Skye. She's trying to protect a disturbed sister and must sacrifice her "normality" to do so. There is a bit more repetition than is necessary in my opinion. William could use some real character development. Actually, all the secondary characters, including the parents, could be better rounded, though the focus of the story is the drama between the sisters and this folk-lore-rich, fantastically creepy world Deidre's tapped into.
