A review by cmwilso3
The Nature of Monsters: A Novel by Clare Clark

2.0

Many other people have noted in the reviews that the description of this book is much better than the content. Though a few people were discouraged by the gratuitous sex scenes at the beginning, I decided to power through. Unfortunately, the story had the potential to be good, but the writing prevented it from becoming good. If that makes sense. The antagonist is not scary whatsoever and the protagonist is insufferable. Also, for some reason, the author has a fascination with telling the reader about the characters' need to urinate and defecate very frequently. Some of these times make sense, such as when the antagonist wants to analyze the chamberpot contents for "science." However, the number of times that people peed on themselves in this book was offputting to me. Maybe I'm just overly sensitive about it, but detailed descriptions of people's bowel movements, the frequency, and the appearance of said bowel movements did not make me want to continue reading. And these descriptions were in addition to casual mentions of "turds" regularly in times where "science" was not happening.