Delicious Monsters
Written by: Liselle Sambury
Margaret K. McElderry Books
2023
A haunting and chilling tale, Delicious Monsters takes readers into a chilling haunted house filled with ghosts, both alive and dead.
Delicious Monsters is a complex and chilling tale that addresses trauma in all its forms, forcing people to face their trauma and reveal the monsters that live in the past and present.
Gripping Story
Delicious Monsters is a story split into two POVs. One follows Daisy, reeling over the breakup with her much older boyfriend, when her mother gets a letter informing her that her brother-in-law has passed, leaving her his estate on an island off the coast of Ontario.
Flash forward to ten years later, and we are following Brittney, who is determined to bring a name to the girl found dead ten years ago in the mansion her mother swears made her a better person and a better mother. But Brittney knows better.
Each storyline has to deal with the complex relationships between single mothers and their daughters. But they also deal with the cycle of abuse, physical, emotional, mental, and sexual. It is haunting and chilling and also easily moves between POVs.
I loved the ease at which the novel moved and how eerie the setting was. Instantly, you could tell that there was something wrong with the house. Daisy’s perspective focuses more on the haunting, the eerie atmosphere, and the haunting. It is more chilling to read, but it sucks the reader in.
For Brittney, her POV is more investigative journalism. We’re putting the pieces together, gripped by the present, whereas the past is still unfolding. It creates so much tension and mystery that it balances Daisy’s arc brilliantly.
Chilling | Delicious Monsters Review
A haunting and chilling tale, Delicious Monsters takes readers into a chilling haunted house filled with ghosts, both alive and dead.
Cynthia Ayala
Cynthia Ayala-Bujnicki majored in Writing and Publishing from Emerson College. Editor-in-chief of Cyn's Workshop, she loves to read and write while tending to her pepper plants. She currently lives in South Florida with her husband, two kids Dante and Selene and two furbabies Mr. J the Kitten who Thinks He's Batman (yes, that is his full name) and Nyx.
