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Welcome to today’s stop on the Monsters & Mayhem blog tour hosted by Egmont USA! I’m beyond excited to be part of this tour and feature the awesome Monsters by Ilsa J. Bick!
Monstrous Obsession
Honestly? Because we’re continually surprised/appalled/fascinated by how depraved we can be and how dark our fantasies really are (and they are; be honest). Dealing with all that at arm’s length—say, inventing the monstrous rather than acknowledging that the monsters are already here, and they are us—is the safest way to make believe that we, as a species, are the masters of our monsters rather than the other way around. And there are some truly monstrous human beings who don’t bother to hide behind masks at all, and I know: I used to consult to a women’s prison.
Look, the reality is that none of us will be particularly well behaved in a catastrophe, and stress brings out the worst in just about everyone. The patients who came to see me were never thrilled to be there, and they were under tremendous pressures from within and without. I was always struck by the fact that people can be truly awful to those they profess to love; that families are sometimes bound much more strongly by hatred than love.
It’s the same thing in a disaster. I truly believe that many otherwise decent people will behave in ways they never dreamed possible. People routinely do all the wrong things for what they believe are the right reasons. Why should an apocalypse be any different? At the end of the world as we know it, I think people will be surprised at the monsters they meet. Some might even be staring out from the mirror right this very second.
So, concocting stories where we beat/humanize/conquer/sympathize/love our monsters all have one central purpose: to comfort us in the delusion that we can and will control our basest impulses, our most sadistic fantasies, our capacity for selfishness and destruction. Yes, there are nice folks out there; people act nobly and heroically every day. But these are the exceptions. At the end of the world, I think we’ll find that altruism will be in short supply when the monsters come out to play.
About the book:
The Changed are on the move. The Spared are out of time. The End…is now.
When her parents died, Alex thought things couldn’t get much worse-until the doctors found the monster in her head.
She headed into the wilderness as a good-bye, to leave everything behind. But then the end of the world happened, and Alex took the first step down a treacherous road of betrayal and terror and death.
Now, with no hope of rescue-on the brink of starvation in a winter that just won’t quit-she discovers a new and horrifying truth.
The Change isn’t over.
The Changed are still evolving.
And…they’ve had help.
Amazon | Barnes & Noble
Thanks to Egmont USA I have one set of the Ashes trilogy to giveaway. US/CA only!
a Rafflecopter giveaway
Please visit My Shelf Confessions tomorrow for the next stop on the Monsters & Mayhem Blog Tour.
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Welcome to today’s stop on the Monsters & Mayhem blog tour hosted by Egmont USA! I’m beyond excited to be part of this tour and feature the awesome Monsters by Ilsa J. Bick!
Monstrous Obsession
Honestly? Because we’re continually surprised/appalled/fascinated by how depraved we can be and how dark our fantasies really are (and they are; be honest). Dealing with all that at arm’s length—say, inventing the monstrous rather than acknowledging that the monsters are already here, and they are us—is the safest way to make believe that we, as a species, are the masters of our monsters rather than the other way around. And there are some truly monstrous human beings who don’t bother to hide behind masks at all, and I know: I used to consult to a women’s prison.
Look, the reality is that none of us will be particularly well behaved in a catastrophe, and stress brings out the worst in just about everyone. The patients who came to see me were never thrilled to be there, and they were under tremendous pressures from within and without. I was always struck by the fact that people can be truly awful to those they profess to love; that families are sometimes bound much more strongly by hatred than love.
It’s the same thing in a disaster. I truly believe that many otherwise decent people will behave in ways they never dreamed possible. People routinely do all the wrong things for what they believe are the right reasons. Why should an apocalypse be any different? At the end of the world as we know it, I think people will be surprised at the monsters they meet. Some might even be staring out from the mirror right this very second.
So, concocting stories where we beat/humanize/conquer/sympathize/love our monsters all have one central purpose: to comfort us in the delusion that we can and will control our basest impulses, our most sadistic fantasies, our capacity for selfishness and destruction. Yes, there are nice folks out there; people act nobly and heroically every day. But these are the exceptions. At the end of the world, I think we’ll find that altruism will be in short supply when the monsters come out to play.
About the book:
The Changed are on the move. The Spared are out of time. The End…is now.
When her parents died, Alex thought things couldn’t get much worse-until the doctors found the monster in her head.
She headed into the wilderness as a good-bye, to leave everything behind. But then the end of the world happened, and Alex took the first step down a treacherous road of betrayal and terror and death.
Now, with no hope of rescue-on the brink of starvation in a winter that just won’t quit-she discovers a new and horrifying truth.
The Change isn’t over.
The Changed are still evolving.
And…they’ve had help.
Amazon | Barnes & Noble
Thanks to Egmont USA I have one set of the Ashes trilogy to giveaway. US/CA only!
a Rafflecopter giveaway
Please visit My Shelf Confessions tomorrow for the next stop on the Monsters & Mayhem Blog Tour.
