Made for Each Other (My Boyfriend Is a Monster Series #2)

by Paul D. Storrie, Eldon Cowgur

Overview

Tom Stone stepped into Seward High and into Maria McBride's life like a bolt of lightning. He's the perfect guy for Maria-nice, smart, and well-built. There's just one problem: his family. Tom's father is the town's new funeral director, and business is booming. The bodies are piling up thick and fast in Persephone Falls, Alaska, so Dr. Stone keeps Tom up late at night working in the funeral home. And it's clear that Dr. Stone and his creepy assistant, Graves, don't want Maria around. Maria knows Tom was made for her. She's determined to find out what Dr. Stone has against her. When Tom refuses to stand up to his father, Maria begins to stitch together the clues...and finds out that the Stones are into recycling in ways she never could have imagined.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781467729109
Publisher:	Lerner Publishing Group
Publication date:	04/01/2011
Series:	My Boyfriend Is a Monster Series , #2
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	59 MB
Note:	This product may take a few minutes to download.
Age Range:	12 - 17 Years

About the Author

Paul D. Storrie was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, and despite time spent in Grand Rapids, Chicago, and Los Angeles, has returned to Metro-Detroit time and again. He attended Grand Valley State University and received a B.A. in English Language and Literature, knowing that he wanted to tell stories for a living. His first published work was the comic book series Robyn of Sherwood in 1998. Since then he has written for numerous publishers, including a story for Marvel’s Captain America: Red, White & Blue anthology, the mini-series Gotham Girls for DC Comics, Star Trek Alien Spotlight: Andorians for IDW, and several tales for Graphic Universe, including Junior Library Guild selection Hercules: The Twelve Labors with artist Steve Kurth and Children’s Choice Book Awards finalist Beowulf: Monster Slayer with artist Ron Randall.

Creator of the webcomic www.astray3.com, Eldon Cowgur can be found at his humble northwest Arkansas dwelling, drawing wild tales of curious locations.

Editorial Reviews

"In these two opening titles in a graphic-novel series featuring unlikely romances between ordinary girls and their various monster loves, one girl falls hard for a boy who has mere hours before turning into a zombie that will then want to eat her, and another finds that her perfect new boyfriend is made up of reanimated corpse parts lovingly stitched together by his dad. Of course, true love is rarely smooth, and in this case, the heroines face not only the usual misunderstandings, insecurities, and intense feelings, but also flesh-eating zombies and jealous (and murderous) 'siblings' cobbled together from dead bodies.
While neither book pushes the boundaries of graphic novels (both stick to fairly structured panels, black-and-white illustrations that mirror the text, and predictable comic-book-style exclamations and plot structuring), the mixing of romance and the supernatural, an obvious nod to Twilight and its ilk, may draw in readers new to the format. The gross factor (these are, after all, monsters) is present but downplayed in favor of the progression of the romances, with love more important than, say, the desire to eat your girlfriend's brains. This series, with the flashy titles (each extended with a sequence of several funny subtitles), eye-catching covers, and popular themes, will easily attract readers; happily, they will be rewarded with sturdy plots and clever takes on human/monster love." --The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books

From the Publisher

When violinist Maria McBride and hunky new guy Tom Stone run into each other—literally—it is love at first sight. But Tom's job at his father's funeral home keeps him so busy that he and Maria rarely see each other. And it seems like every day another fatal accident claims yet another member of town, keeping Tom at the funeral home day and night helping his father and his father's creepy assistant, Graves. As a result, Tom's and Maria's relationship isn't getting very far. When Maria decides to take matters into her own hands and visit Tom at his father's funeral home, she discovers that Tom isn't a typical teenage boy. In fact, he's not a boy at all: he's a monster. Tom's father is Frankenstein's monster, and Tom himself is an amalgam of other people's parts. Maria tells Tom that she doesn't care about his strange background, and the two are as happy together as a girl and her monster boyfriend can be—until Maria realizes that Tom's "sister," Hedy, is killing people in town to make new monster friends. Hedy is consumed with jealousy over Tom's and Maria's relationship, and kidnaps Tom with the intent of recycling him into a new boyfriend just for her. Maria and her friends enlist the help of Dr. Stone, storm the lab, and destroy Hedy and a posse of body-part monsters. This graphic novel is written in the spirit of pulp horror, and the author does a good job keeping the plot moving. The illustrations are typical of pulp comics, with well-differentiated main characters and sound effects played out in words. The characters, however, are extraordinarily flat and the relationship between Maria and Tom is hard to swallow. For example, Maria doesn't bat an eye when Tom tells her he's really just made up of parts from dead people. Rather, Maria tells him that her parents were organ donors and she views Tom as simply the recipient of lots and lots of organ donations. This is the second book in the "My Boyfriend is a Monster" series, with more to come, and should appeal to readers who enjoy their horror and romance intertwined. Reviewer: Lauri Berkenkamp

Children's Literature - Lauri Berkenkamp