Title: In the Skin of a Monster
Author:Kathryn Barker
Ease: Moderate
Rating: 5/5
I read In the Skin of a Monster several years ago. When I saw that Kathryn Barker had a second book coming out this year, I thought I would re-post my review of her debut novel, only to find I hadn’t done a review. Which is crazy, because I loved this book.
The book is split between the points-of-view of two characters, Alice, who’s identical twin sister shot up their high-school, and Lux, a dream-boy in a dream-world.
If you go in thinking that it’s a contemporary-realism novel (as I did) then you may initially be confused by what’s happening in the book (as I was). This is not realism. Alice swaps places with her dream-Alice double – she ends up in a dream-scape where the town’s dreams and nightmares live on after waking and her double ends up in the real-world. Once you’ve wrapped your mind around that, however, the novel is engaging, exciting and unique.
I highly recommend In the Skin of a Monster and I’m definitely looking forward to Barker’s next work.
