I received this book from Netgalley/the publisher in exchange of an honest review.

Oh my gosh! A school of monsters! Reminds me of that series by Sally Rippin! Only now in graphic novel form and by BéKa, one of my favourite artists. Squee!

In this book we are in the monsterworld. A world full of strange, weird, fluffy, hairy, spiky, drooly monsters and every one of them knows to misbehave. To be late for everything. To destroy and demolish. Well, everyone? Almost everyone. We follow a little monster named Flop (brilliant name) who loves a clean room, normal food, and oh yes, a good education. I had an absolutely hilarious time reading how he tried to sneak out so he could go to school in time (boo, the teachers are more than happy if you don’t come they just want to eat their booger cake… yes really). On the one hand I felt for the little kid, but on the other hand? I just wish he had a bit of a monster in him. At 34 pages in and I just wondered if he was truly a monster? Whereas the others just didn’t seem to care about destroying something even tried to break it more, breaking in, were excited to get lice and the likes, he was just there. I much rather liked to read about the other monsters and see what they were up to. Thankfully, despite Flop being Flop he had some friends/classmates who played with him and we saw their antics.

I had a laugh at how they reacted to humans and cute animals. Just like many other monster stories it seems that cute is a big no no.

Plus, I loved seeing the world these monsters inhabit and see what other monsters are living in it. The buildings were just so pretty and interesting. Not a fan of the food though, but I am never a fan of monster food. It just looks horrific and disgusting. XD

Oh, and I loved it when we learned more about some of the monsters job. Including nightmares! Though a shame that Flop kind of ruined that one.

Are we sure the parents didn’t find Flop? Given what happens in that forest? I don’t want to give too much away, but I was just so curious. XD

All in all, while I wasn’t such a fan of Flop, I would have rather seen him just be a tad more monster-y instead of just looking like a monster and that is it. Just a few more traits, some explosions or something that turns him scary would have been great. But the rest of the things were fun. The world they live in, the school, the buildings, the nightmare job, the food (yes, disgusting but oh so fitting), the art was great. I do hope that the next book focusses on another monster.