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title: "The Monsters of Templeton"
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# The Monsters of Templeton

**Brand:** lauren groff
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- **What is this?** The Monsters of Templeton by lauren groff
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## Customer Reviews

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    Amazing, Creative and Original! A Perfect Novel
  

*by C***Y on Reviewed in the United States on February 10, 2018*

What an amazing, creative and outright original book! (And it was Lauren Groff's first novel, too.) This is a two-dimensional story; one part takes place in the present day, while the other takes place some 200 years ago.Wilhelmina Sunshine Upton, who goes by Willie, is 28 and working on her PhD in anthropology at Stanford. After a passionate affair with her adviser in the tundra of Alaska when they are on a dig, she is pregnant and returns home to Templeton, New York. This idyllic town with a very large lake that is hundreds of feet deep, is modeled on Cooperstown. The day a bedraggled Willie rolls into town, a dead prehistoric "monster" surfaces on the lake.Willie's mother, Vi, is an aging hippie-turned-born again Christian, who has always told Willie that her father was one of three men with whom she lived in a house in San Francisco in the '60s. It turns out that isn't true. Willie's dad is a man who lives in Templeton. Willie now has a quest: Find out the name of her father.Fasten your seatbelts, reader. You are in for a ride. Monsters aren't the only thing in Templeton. And some monsters aren't quite as easy to see as the one that came out of the lake.P.S. Lauren Groff should get some sort of award for the characters' names. Here is just a sampling: Marmaduke Templeton, Noname, Minnie Phinney, Primus Dwyer and Asterisk Upton…just to name a few. And they are as quirky and original as their names!

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    A Weird Gilmore Girls
  

*by M***6 on Reviewed in the United States on July 23, 2019*

I decided to read this book because I adored Fates and Furies. Groff is a talented writer and I enjoy the voice she brings to her characters and stories. That being said, this particular story didn't appeal to me much. I liked the characters, Groff does quirky well, but the plot just didn't do anything for me.The story is about a woman who returns home after things in her life fall apart. Upon her arrival, she learns that her mom had lied to her about her origin story and that her father (who she never knew) had lived in their small town their entire life. So she goes on a quest to learn who her father is by reading a bunch of historical documents because her mom refuses to just tell her.The story is told from the perspective of the protagonist mostly, but also from the perspective of her ancestors who she's reading about when trying to piece together her complicated family tree. This is where the book loses me. Groff does a good job of giving each person a distinct voice, but there were just way too many people for me to keep track of. I honestly couldn't remember who was who and how they were connected most of the time. Perhaps this is a me problem and I wasn't reading closely enough, but it was taking more effort than I was interested in giving.I much preferred the protagonist's story in the present. She's returned to her weird, small town after things in her academic, cosmopolitan life don't go as planned (no spoilers). She's meeting up with people from her past who have changed (or not) and her present self is reconciling her relationship with those people who she's now changing her views on. She has a unique relationship with her mother that I enjoyed a lot. The mom in general is pretty funny (we get a chapter from her perspective which was entertaining).The town itself is bizarre. It reminds me of Stars Hollow from the Gilmore Girls but stranger with quirky characters and offbeat randomness. The relationship between the unusual mother and daughter duo only accentuates the Gilmore Girl vibe. I mean this to be complimentary because that's probably the best part of the book for me.Really the part I don't like about this book is her quest to find her father (at least the way it was done) which is unfortunately the main premise of the book. I just found myself getting lost and losing interest in some of the ancestor stories.

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    Lauren Groff should not be ignored
  

*by K***R on Reviewed in the United States on September 24, 2018*

"The Monsters of Templeton" is an amazing read! The title hits home on so many levels that it's sometimes a bit confusing. Don't let that scare you. If you were bright enough to buy the book, you are bright enough to never ignore Laura Groff. Her imagination is as close to perfection as anything possibly can be. Her descriptive language and skill will steal your breathe, as you pause briefly, with the book laid upon your chest, and contemplate the sentence, paragraph, chapter that seems to have been painted in all the wrong colors, on purpose, for in the colors you are used to expecting, you lose your way as to what it could mean if you looked at it, really looked at it, in a different way. Lauren Groff is a thrill, and "The Monsters of Templeton" is a read you shouldn't allow yourself to skip.

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