Destroy All Monsters

Name: Destroy All Monsters
Brand: Harper Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Sam J. Miller
ISBN: 9780062913937

Author: Sam J. Miller

Narrator: Brittany Pressley, Zach Webber

Unabridged: 8 hr 47 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 07/02/2019

Categories: Young Adult Fiction, Social Themes, Lgbtq+, Family

Synopsis

A crucial, genre-bending tale, equal parts Ned Vizzini and Patrick Ness, about the life-saving power of friendship.Solomon and Ash both experienced a traumatic event when they were twelve.Ash lost all memory of that event when she fell from Solomon’s treehouse. Since then, Solomon has retreated further and further into a world he seems to have created in his own mind. One that insulates him from reality, but crawls with foes and monsters . . . in both animal and human form. As Solomon slips further into the place he calls Darkside, Ash realizes her only chance to free her best friend from his pain is to recall exactly what happened that day in his backyard and face the truth—together. Fearless and profound, Sam J. Miller’s follow up to his award-winning debut novel, The Art of Starving, spins an intimate and impactful tale that will linger with readers.

About Sam J. Miller

Sam J. Miller is the Nebula Award–winning author of The Art of Starving (an NPR best book of the year) and Blackfish City (a Nebula Award finalist and a John W. Campbell Award winner). Sam is a recipient of the Shirley Jackson Award and a graduate of the Clarion Workshop. His short stories have been nominated for the World Fantasy, Theodore Sturgeon, and Locus Awards, and reprinted in dozens of anthologies. He lives in New York City.

Reviews

Goodreads review by ☘Misericordia☘

Q: “Maybe we broke the universe.” (c) Q: Some of us are monsters. (c) Q: I wanted to save myself, and Ash, and my whole city full of magnificent monsters and magic that they wanted to destroy. (c) Q: “Temperature’s dropping tonight, beloveds,” she said. “Better find a good book or a warm body to curl u......more

Goodreads review by Shaun

Effing brilliant.......more

Goodreads review by Giselle

True rating: 3.5 stars. I chose to read this book because of the mention of a Patrick Ness-like style, and this is definitely true. It starts out confusing as heck, but in a good way. The kind of confusing that captivates you, and pulls you in fully with the promise of a very odd, gritty, mysterious......more

Goodreads review by Rebecca

Laini Taylor meets John Green in this poignant young adult tale of parallel worlds and deep magic where trauma breaks but friendship heals. Miller offers no easy answers for fighting the all-too-real monsters in our lives but still allows space for hope, healing, and above all, bravery.......more

Goodreads review by Kathy

So. I really, really like Sam Miller. The first reason being that he's one of those writers who takes outlandish ideas and doesn't hesitate--just dives headfirst into them. I mean, his novels so far include a cyberpunk rebellion story starring a woman who's an orcamancer, a villain origin story abou......more