Mr. Monster

Buried among all the other coming of age stories Mr. Wells gives us a fascinating story about a budding serial killer. The premise is different, the writing is excellent, and the tale is well told. My only beef is that Dan Wells is such a good writer that IMHO he would have been much better off without the demon angle. I don't believe he needs it to take you on a frightfully fulfilling journey. You bet I'll be reading his next entry in this series and whatever else he happens to write in the future.

Dan Wells' gift is that he can make the reader like a sociopath. He captures the skill of creating an anti-hero, and makes it firmly his own. I cannot wait until the third installment of the John Cleaver series. I won a pre-release copy of Mr. Monster from the publisher and Goodreads, and was thrilled when I learned I won, thrilled while waiting for the book to arrive, thrilled while anticipating its read...and now thrilled to have read it. What a rush, what a ride.