Re-visiting old favorite; Eliza & her monsters

Hello helloo!

Today I am revisiting another favorite, as it had been one of my goal to start re-reading more freely, this new type of review serie posts! last time we did the spiderwick chronicles, and today it is Eliza & her monsters.

Eliza & her monsters has been read way more recently than the Spiderwick Chronicles, but we’re talking back in 2018 – when I had first started my blog! You can read my first review of it aswell.

At first I was a bit scared of how big this book actually is! But I am pleasantly surprised of how fast it reads.. and I feel like I’ve slipped into a comfort read 🥰 This was the very first book that i’ve read containing anxiety- the very first one where I felt seen!!

While I surprisingly remembered (though distantly) a lot of stuff, I had forgotten how the twist broke my heart.. while yes I had read it on my original review, I didnt remembered it went down like that!! 😭 Now as im older, I did saw various instance where she could’ve just spit it and tell him, but choosed not to.

I can feel the raw pain inside me through what Eliza is facing. I’ve been there, I know how it feels. However, I can also understand her parents; how they just wanted to he close to her and how they didn’t saw it was that big of a deal.

« There is a small monster in my brain that controls my doubt. The doubt itself is a stupid thing, without sense or feeling, blind and straining at the end of a long chain. »

« I don’t want to be the girl who freezes when confronted with new friends, or the outside world, or the smallest shred of intimacy. I don’t want to be alone in a room all the time. »