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Summary Of The Different Kinds Of Monsters By Seth Chambers
The Different Kinds of Monsters written by Seth Chambers follows a story of a young man named Dylan Armitage, traveling around the United States throughout his life as he meets new people along the way, seeing the different sides of them and their monsters, including his. The title itself is pretty self-explanatory – that there are different kinds of monsters in this world. But what’s not self-explanatory is that there are monsters, outside and inside of us. Just as there was a famous saying that “some people bring out the worst of others”, I would like to add that “some people are already worst in the beginning”. And this book is a great example of that.

What I found quite unique in this book are the three separate timelines. The first timeline

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