The Monster Who Wasn't
T.C. Shelley
The Monster Who Wasn’t
T.C. Shelley
A brilliantly rich and strange fantasy adventure that will make us all believe in monsters - be they good, bad or somewhere in between.
It is a well-known fact that fairies are born from a baby’s first laugh. What is not as well documented is how monsters come into being…
This is the story of a creature who is both strange and unique. When he hatches down in the vast underground lair where monsters dwell, he looks just like a human boy - much to the disgust of everyone watching. Even the grumpy gargoyles who adopt him and nickname him “Imp’ only want him to steal chocolate for them from the nearby shops. He’s a child with feet in both worlds, and he doesn’t know where he fits.
But little does Imp realise that Thunderguts, king of the ogres, has a great and dangerous destiny in mind for him, and he’ll stop at nothing to see it come to pass …
Review
A strange imp boy is born in the underworld. Immediately compelled to escape, he joins up with a hilarious gang of crabby chocolate-loving gargoyles and makes his way above ground to the world of the humans. The boy isn’t quite sure who he is or where he belongs. Assisted by a kind angel, hebegins to learn about his new surroundings and finds a family that may be his, but when a baby is taken away he must re-enter the dark, gloomy and dangerous world beneath the earth to try to rescue her.
In this hectic, magical, monster world there are brownies, goblins, pixies and a terrible ogre kingnamed Thunderguts, who seems to have his own plans for the boy. With shades of The Labyrinth, Artemis Fowl and A Most Magical Girl, this exciting debut novel from a Perth-based author is a witty fantasy adventure perfect for readers aged 9+.
Kim Gruschow is the children’s book buyer at Readings St Kilda.
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