#oh and this author also describes cleo as coffee colored
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I'm like halfway through the first Ghoulfriends book and main three are so annoying. I'm hoping it's like a character flaw thing, where they'll recognize it and get better over the course of the series, but oof. Gitty did these ghouls so wrong.
They're beefing with Cleo for no reason...Venus flipped out on her out of nowhere (in the middle of class, unprovoked!!) for using paper bags and then sprayed her with hypno pollen, meanwhile Rochelle, who is in her own relationship, is hardcore flirting with her man!!! I wish the author had been more original when it came to giving them a "frenemy" there are so many options aside from Cleo! (Honestly Operetta would have been an interesting choice, but whatever)
Robecca's characterization is the most tolerable, but she's incredibly rambly, and the author decided to give her a bad sense of time for...reasons. And despite being British, she uses oddly Southern phrases while talking...its super strange. With Venus and Rochelle, I can see where her mind went with writing their characters, but Robecca honestly seems so opposite to her canon personality.
And her backstory was kinda mangled too. It's acknowledged that she was disassembled, and recently reassembled, and even that she previously lived with Mrs. Kindergrubber, but she's treated like a brand new student. No acknowledgement that it was Ghoulia who put her back together!
I understand giving the characters a fresh take, but it would have been pretty simple to integrate the actual canon. Robecca and Rochelle were introduced in the same movie, they were new to Monster High, just not new to all of the characters.
#monster high#monster high gen 1#monster high novels#ghoulfriends forever#oh and this author also describes cleo as coffee colored#can i just say that i fully expected to enjoy these#like i am kinda having fun hating on them but i bought all 4 at once lol...had i known they were so bad id have stopped at the first#and dont get me wrong i think rochelle's crush on deuce is really cute and interesting generally#but i did not expect her to be so upfront about it!#at the very least i expected her to be single lol!#every time i read robecca's dialogue its in a different accent#british australian or southern#ill probably use this post as a thread for my thoughts as i continue reading#i really thought these would be more like the Monster High Diaries books#those are so good in comparison...#text post#bad as they are i dont regret buying them#the covers are pretty and the illustrations#plus im happy to have all the gen 1 novel series
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