My Favorite Thing Is Monsters Summary
Ferris, Emil

My Favorite Thing Is Monsters Overview

My Favorite Thing is Monsters is a graphic novel by Emil Ferris. It follows a young girl named Karen Reyes who has a deep love of all thing related to horror and monsters. When her upstairs neighbor dies under suspicious circumstance, Karen decides to become a detective and solve the case. While learning more about her neighbor and her neighbor’s death, she ends up finding out even more about her brother, Deeze, and others in the neighborhood. Karen must cope with the information she learns, even when its damaging to the people she loves. My Favorite Thing is Monsters addresses themes of loss of innocence, escapism, and magical realism.