Book Reviews: Books We Read in Fall 2017

Book club members,

Please use the comments to give a short review/recommendation for one of the books we read together in fall.  Here's a partial list of our fall books (what am I missing? Let me know in the comments):

- Unwind by Neal Shusterman
- The Girl With All the Gifts by M.R. Carey
- Season of the Witch by David Talbot
- The Monstrumologist by Rick Yancey
- Packing for Mars by Mary Roach
- Paper Towns by John Green
- The Screaming Staircase (Lockwood & Co. Book 1) by Jonathan Stroud
- Every Day by David Levithan

Here's a sample:

I really loved The Monstrumologist by Rick Yancey. It is the story of an orphaned teenager who works as an assistant to a "mad" scientist who studies monsters in the late 1800's.  The style of writing builds suspense and horror while also creating characters that you really know and understand, and either care for or are horrified by... or both!  Some characters are revealed to be just as monstrous as the terrifying human-eating beasts they are hunting. At it's heart, it uses a horror backdrop to tell a moving story about relationships between fathers and sons.