I knew right away, Eliza was my type of person. It’s like she crawled inside my brain and plucked this thought from my very consciousness. If not, oh well, at least I didn’t have to talk.” Explaining something online is as simple as pasting a link and saying, ‘Here, read this.’ They click. “I’ve never tried to do it in person, but I imagine if I did, I would end up vomiting on someone’s shoes. “The story is at once very easy and very hard to explain,” she says in regards to Monstrous Seas.
Finding it easier to relate to people online is another aspect of the online life that I think many of us can relate to, and Zappia takes advantage of several opportunities to let her main character express this perfectly several times throughout the book. Many of us find ourselves living behind a screen, especially when we do share something online, be it our stories, our photos, or even just a carefully curated version of our real lives. Plus, those two points sounded very similar to one of my other favorite YA novels, Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell, and I can’t even count how many reviews I read/watched/heard that expounded that fans of Fangirl would love Eliza and her Monsters.īoth Eliza and Cath (the main protagonist of Fangirl), share their creative works online and find themselves more popular and more comfortable in the realm of the Internet than in their regular, everyday lives, which is something that not only do I find relatable, but I think a lot of people out there can. I also really wanted to read this book for its portrayal of a character who is introverted and deals with anxiety. First, the idea of living another life online, or feeling like your entire existence is based online, seemed extremely relatable. I was drawn to Eliza and Her Monsters by a few main points. But perhaps most of all, Wallace doesn’t know Eliza is the famed Lad圜onstellation, and she can only keep it a secret for so long. She finds herself presented with scenarios she has never faced before-in terms of socializing, friendships, and relationships.
As she falls for Wallace, Eliza’s usual hide inside and work on the comic routine is thrown into turmoil. But then Eliza meets Wallace, the new guy at school, and not only is he a huge fan of Monstrous Seas who writes fanfiction, but he’s also creating a novelization of the comic. But in “real life”-offline-Eliza is an anxious, introverted high school student who makes it her mission to fade into the background and live her life unnoticed. Online, Eliza is Lad圜onstellation, the creator of the famous webcomic Monstrous Seas, with millions of fans who not only read her work, but also buy her work, share her work, and even get tattoos of her work. Eliza and Her Monsters centers on the titular character of Eliza. I recently finished reading Eliza and Her Monsters, a contemporary YA novel by Francesca Zappia. I can already tell this is going to be a long one.
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