If not for Angela, Mary might have claimed one more victim she fully intended to kill the party’s host, who so happens to be her ex.Įveryone is quick to label this a case of a jilted teen using a shotgun to get over a breakup, but Angela refuses to accept the popular narrative.
Or they would have had their bodies not been shot to pieces. She still cannot fathom her best friend Mary killing anyone, yet the victims, Todd Green and Kathy Baker, say otherwise. Angela’s first three months in Point were quiet until the night of Jim Kline’s party. Rather than having the new girl in town slowly come upon the presence of an unnatural threat, Angela is thrown headfirst into the heart of darkness once Mary obliterates two of their classmates. Pike more than delivers on the cover’s promise, and he does it sooner than other authors might. Everything seems safe now, but after learning Mary’s bizarre motive, Angela realizes the real danger has “only just begun.”īrian Kotzky ’s artwork for Monster proposes a sort of creature story in the vein of vintage “B” movies like I Was a Teenage Werewolf the cover shows a high-school cheerleader walking beside a red-eyed football player.
In only the first few paragraphs of the 1992 young-adult novel, Mary shoots two people dead at a party before her best friend Angela Warner stops her. The author delivers the inciting incident of Monster with breakneck speed he gets right to the killing. Much like Mary Blanc, Christopher Pike is on a mission.
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