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A review by mxphoebesviewpoint
Monster Club: Hunters for Hire by Gavin Brown
4.0
Aliens are loose in the city and only the Monster Club can stop them!
Spike, Tommy, and Karim are seventh graders on a mission. They want to be adventurers! Tommy is the biggest of the group and therefore he believes he is the muscles. He eats and drinks supplements to make him bigger. Spike believes she is the brains. Karim is the quiet and serious one of the group. His father had been an adventurer until he was permanently injured. One day at school, their dreams begin to come true as a monster is on the loose in the school. The next day there is another monster next door. Suddenly they are applying to be contractors for AppVenture, a monster capturing company. What could go wrong?
Gavin Brown takes us on an adventure in Monster Club: Hunters for Hire (2019). Hunters is written for ages 8 through 12, but I had a lot of fun reading it and so will parents who read what their children are reading. Brown gives us monsters from Gremlins to Razorbacks to bigger monsters (I do not want to give everything away). There are also personal issues that the kids deal with in the book as Spike has issues with her father and Karim with his. They are the same issue, but represented in different situations. Brown is realistic in his writing in that he does not wrap up the real life problems with a bow as real life is not like that, but he does give an ending that is satisfying. The mystery of the monsters is fun and exciting, and the solution logical in today’s world. Hunters gives us friendship, adventure, and fun. You cannot ask for more than that in a book.
Douglas Holgate is the illustrator for Monsters Club: Hunters for Hire.
I received this book for free in a Goodreads Giveaway and give my opinion without prejudice and freely.
Spike, Tommy, and Karim are seventh graders on a mission. They want to be adventurers! Tommy is the biggest of the group and therefore he believes he is the muscles. He eats and drinks supplements to make him bigger. Spike believes she is the brains. Karim is the quiet and serious one of the group. His father had been an adventurer until he was permanently injured. One day at school, their dreams begin to come true as a monster is on the loose in the school. The next day there is another monster next door. Suddenly they are applying to be contractors for AppVenture, a monster capturing company. What could go wrong?
Gavin Brown takes us on an adventure in Monster Club: Hunters for Hire (2019). Hunters is written for ages 8 through 12, but I had a lot of fun reading it and so will parents who read what their children are reading. Brown gives us monsters from Gremlins to Razorbacks to bigger monsters (I do not want to give everything away). There are also personal issues that the kids deal with in the book as Spike has issues with her father and Karim with his. They are the same issue, but represented in different situations. Brown is realistic in his writing in that he does not wrap up the real life problems with a bow as real life is not like that, but he does give an ending that is satisfying. The mystery of the monsters is fun and exciting, and the solution logical in today’s world. Hunters gives us friendship, adventure, and fun. You cannot ask for more than that in a book.
Douglas Holgate is the illustrator for Monsters Club: Hunters for Hire.
I received this book for free in a Goodreads Giveaway and give my opinion without prejudice and freely.