The Monsters at the End of the World

About this book

No one seems certain what caused the Ruin. But where the world was once beautiful, clean and fertile, it is now poisoned and burnt.  

Sunny lives in a small, isolated community, separated from other similar villages by huge swathes of toxic land that poison crops, animals and water. The only safe source of food is the sea but it is also full of monsters that prowl the coast and steal the fish. 

Sunny has been taught three essential truths about these monsters. They are violent, they are dangerous and they are monstrous. But when, on an instinctive impulse, she rescues a baby monster from a cruel trap, she discovers that what she has been told isn’t all true. And she begins to wonder which of her other beliefs is built on a lie. 

Sunny’s bleak world and received prejudice have led her to a set of fixed ideas about the world around her but once a crack opens to allow in an alternative point of view, she begins to question the truth of those ideas. 

Sunny’s story is thrilling and engaging but might also encourage readers to ask questions about our own world and, hopefully, not to judge others on appearances.