Mr. Monster: John Cleaver, Book 2

I found myself growing ever more sympathetic with John as the story progressed. I found the narration brilliant and the voice of the piece (and that of the reader) powerful. I do not think it is possible to read this book and remain the same person from start to end.

This book was so much better than the first. The narration and story was brilliant. Can't wait to see what book 3 is about! Love the supernatural twist.

I can't tell whether I like John or fear him, but I just can't stop listening. As soon as it ended I wanted to listen again, but more than that I had to come download the third book. Can't wait to find out what happens next.
For those who listened to the first book, this one has a new narrator. He's much better and grabs you and drags you into the story. Fantastic job!

The first book was great, this one was AWESOME. Definitely my favorite of the trilogy. It's also the most disturbing. Oh man, I was so torn between rooting for John and Brook and screaming at her to run for the hills.

For those of you who hated the narrator of the first book, rest assured that the new reader, Kirby Heyborne, is fantastic. He really captures the characters well, especially John. And I could tell he (or the director) had well familiarized himself with the content of the novel as there were very few occasions where I felt a line was misread (a problem that plagues most other audiobooks that I have listened to).

I liked the first book but the second was helped mightily by Heyborne's narration.

I would not recommend based on multiple sequences of animal torture and violence. If I had known this was in the book I would have skipped this book. Now I'm telling people what I wish someone had told me. I fast forwarded much of this.

Great characterizations and emotion. Great timbre to the voice and his narration for the main character, a teenager, sounds like the right age. Another improvement over the first book.

John's whiny sister.

I know it seems odd to complain of animal violence while humans bear the brunt of it. It's just my pet peeve (pun unintended) to include animal torture in fiction whether it be horror or crime. It's up to you whether this bothers you or not.

This series was my first audiobook experience. I absolutely loved it. Although it is a YA series, I wish they would have been able to add some mild profanity. But the detail of the gore was good.

I can't wait for more. I really hope this can be adapted into an AMC series or similar. I'd love to see this on TV.

Thought at first this would be a "Dexter" style of book. Didn't anticipate the supernatural bent. I'd purchased it in one of those $4.95 sales- wouldn't have ever bought it at full price. It was an ok read - probably a little pulpy for my tastes.

Suspenseful, Entertaining, Riveting

No one moment stands out. The entire book held my attention from beginning to end! Can't wait for more.

If you thought 'I Am Not A Serial Killer' was good - are you going to love this one! It's everything the first book was, only better, stronger, darker, richer, deeper...and about ten times more scary.

Here we see how rapidly John's sociopathic mind advances after his first kill. We know more about what drives him, what stops him, what he desperately longs for...and it's not pretty, I'll say that much. But what a thrill, what a psychological ride into the ominous caverns of a sick and clever mind. How did Dan Wells come up with this - it makes you wonder!

I've read a lot of books about serial killers, and some written by the killers themselves, and I've got to say - this one tops them all! If it weren't for the supernatural parts, you might think it was a memoir written by a real sociopath.

I can't wait to listen to the third - which is downloading this very second, even as I write.

Disturbing, exciting, psychopathology

A peek inside this kids head is like jumping in the deep end of Jack the Ripper's mind

The dark voice eerily draws you like whisper in a movie theater

Yes, couldn't put it down

Read the first one years ago and had no idea about the twist, now in the second things are more fully explored and John knows what he is up against both within himself and in his town. I'll be jumping on book three as soon as I get my next Audible credit!