A review by not_just_jules37
At Night, I Become a Monster (Novel) by Yoru Sumino

dark sad slow-paced

1.5

This was...bad. Really fricking bad. The plot was bad, and slow as f. The characters were supposed to have some sort of moral awakening but it was just soooo poorly executed. The main character was supposed to like Yano, but he kept behaving like a douchebag out of his "sense of unity". A lot of things that happened had no reason, nor relevance to the plot, and some were never explained either. Actually, most weren't. That said I liked the original premise of a kid turning into a monster at night, but the book steered from it's original middlesgrade spooky fantasy vibe to a story describing a very corrupt system and even trying to normalize at some points(even tho that was denied in, like, the last chapter). I also liked the idea of midnight break and yano's character's speach pattern. I kinda hated the main charcter who thought himself better than yano, and a good person in general, while he did nothing to help her during daytime, actively participated in her bullying and constantly tried to change and fix her, while being eaten alive by his own fear. The redemption at the end was OK, but it took place over very few chapters while the rest were kinda awful to read. The writing style was Ok too, tho it had this repetition thing that almost made it feel like I was reading a misprinted edition of the book. That all said, I think the corrupt system shown was very infuriating and I thing that was the point so well done on that at least, author. Overall didn't really like this book, but it was a quick read
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