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Monster: A Prequel of The Chosen:
"One of the best starts to a series I’ve ever read!"
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They said monsters weren’t real. They lied.
Once, I was a single mom, a soccer mom.
Cheered for Andrea in everything she did, from her kindergarten scribbles to her high school sports. And she cheered for me as I struggled with a demanding job, tight budget, and no family to help us.
Life was hard, but we loved and argued and somehow made it all work, just like everyone else.
Until the night I lost it all.
Lost it to a vicious, unspeakable evil.
My job, my daughter. My life.
Now, my existence is filled with violence, filled with death, filled with blood.
I no longer fit within human society, and by all definitions, am no better than the beasts in the forest.
And I’m all alone.
But I do know one thing. I will find a way back. Will find my humanity again.
And I will find my daughter.
For without her, I’m doomed to a bleak, bloody reality as nothing more than a . . .
Monster.
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Follow Sunny's journey as she's caught between the human world and the world of The Chosen—both bristling with dangers—while fighting to keep the people she loves safe.
And to keep herself breathing just one more day.
This story contains mature language, graphic violence, stalking, and animal hunting scenes. This is the beginning of a series and ends in a cliffhanger.
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
They said monsters weren’t real. They lied.
Once, I was a single mom, a soccer mom.
Cheered for Andrea in everything she did, from her kindergarten scribbles to her high school sports. And she cheered for me as I struggled with a demanding job, tight budget, and no family to help us.
Life was hard, but we loved and argued and somehow made it all work, just like everyone else.
Until the night I lost it all.
Lost it to a vicious, unspeakable evil.
My job, my daughter. My life.
Now, my existence is filled with violence, filled with death, filled with blood.
I no longer fit within human society, and by all definitions, am no better than the beasts in the forest.
And I’m all alone.
But I do know one thing. I will find a way back. Will find my humanity again.
And I will find my daughter.
For without her, I’m doomed to a bleak, bloody reality as nothing more than a . . .
Monster.
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
Follow Sunny's journey as she's caught between the human world and the world of The Chosen—both bristling with dangers—while fighting to keep the people she loves safe.
And to keep herself breathing just one more day.
This story contains mature language, graphic violence, stalking, and animal hunting scenes. This is the beginning of a series and ends in a cliffhanger.
- GenresVampires
346 pages, Kindle Edition
Published April 25, 2023
163 people are currently reading
93 people want to read
About the author
Roh Morgon
14 books634 followersRoh Morgon discovered the magic in stories at an early age, both in books and the ones she made up in her head. As a child growing up in a remote Southern California canyon, she explored the wild hills barefoot with her brothers and rode her horse bareback at top speed. A wicked youth spent hitchhiking across the West and perched on the backs of Harleys eventually gave way to soccer mom duties and full-time college studies—at the same time. In her spare moments, she learned how to herd cattle, swordfight, and plant an arrow or a knife in a target—not necessarily at the same time.
Her years spent in the lofty mountains of Colorado and the stark plains of Wyoming, the red canyons of central Arizona and the rolling hills of California, provide some of the diverse stages upon which her characters re-enact their lives.
She’s best known for her vampire series which includes Watcher: Book I of The Chosen, the 1840s historical horror novella, The Last Trace, and The Games Monsters Play. Her next novel, Runner: Book II of The Chosen, will be released in late 2017.
Roh currently shares her home in the Sierra Nevada foothills with three mustang horses, two crazy herding dogs, and a very patient husband who reminds her of the need to eat and sleep. She writes fantasy and urban fantasy for middle grade, young adult, and adult readers.
Roh can be found online at http://www.rohmorgon.com and http://www.facebook.com/rohmorgon.
Her years spent in the lofty mountains of Colorado and the stark plains of Wyoming, the red canyons of central Arizona and the rolling hills of California, provide some of the diverse stages upon which her characters re-enact their lives.
She’s best known for her vampire series which includes Watcher: Book I of The Chosen, the 1840s historical horror novella, The Last Trace, and The Games Monsters Play. Her next novel, Runner: Book II of The Chosen, will be released in late 2017.
Roh currently shares her home in the Sierra Nevada foothills with three mustang horses, two crazy herding dogs, and a very patient husband who reminds her of the need to eat and sleep. She writes fantasy and urban fantasy for middle grade, young adult, and adult readers.
Roh can be found online at http://www.rohmorgon.com and http://www.facebook.com/rohmorgon.
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October 24, 2023
Writing first-person monsters isn't easy, but the author does a terrific job of capturing the main character's horrific transformation into something it doesn't completely understand. it's a prequel, so by nature isn't completely self-contained but does intrigue me enough to check out the rest of the Watcher series.
December 5, 2023
It was pretty good 😃. This is a vampire story—although vampires are never mentioned by name. It follows Sunny Collins, a single mother of a teenage daughter who gets kidnapped and turned into a vampire. Fleeing her kidnappers, she hides in the mountains with only a vague memory of her daughter to keep her going.
Sunny desperately wants to find her daughter, but she is left with total amnesia after her attack. She is also terrified of killing any humans she comes across, and struggles to rejoin society. Sunny was treated like a homeless woman by most people (she was homeless), and it was sad to see her struggle to keep a job when she kept having urges to kill everyone. She just couldn’t catch a break.
I had to remind myself as I was reading this that the story was set in the early 2000s. Sunny kept trying to find a library that she could go to after sunset to look up her daughter online, and I just wanted to shout at my Kindle that she should just steal someone’s phone and look up her daughter on Facebook. I kept forgetting that this was set when everyone had flip phones, but not smart phones yet, lol.
My favorite character was Joe. He’s totally sketchy, but also seems to be savvy to what Sunny is and isn’t frightened away. He’s probably using her, but there’s something about him that I like.
I was dying for a little more information on the supernatural world. I guess that’s coming in the next book, though.
Sunny desperately wants to find her daughter, but she is left with total amnesia after her attack. She is also terrified of killing any humans she comes across, and struggles to rejoin society. Sunny was treated like a homeless woman by most people (she was homeless), and it was sad to see her struggle to keep a job when she kept having urges to kill everyone. She just couldn’t catch a break.
I had to remind myself as I was reading this that the story was set in the early 2000s. Sunny kept trying to find a library that she could go to after sunset to look up her daughter online, and I just wanted to shout at my Kindle that she should just steal someone’s phone and look up her daughter on Facebook. I kept forgetting that this was set when everyone had flip phones, but not smart phones yet, lol.
My favorite character was Joe. He’s totally sketchy, but also seems to be savvy to what Sunny is and isn’t frightened away. He’s probably using her, but there’s something about him that I like.
I was dying for a little more information on the supernatural world. I guess that’s coming in the next book, though.
May 8, 2023
Roh Morgon, does I again with the prequel to the Chosen series "Monster". We get to learn about Sunny and her journey as she gains and learns to control the monster within her. Roh's words get you right into Sunny's mind, and you experience her struggles right alongside her. Only a truly talented author can make you feel what the character is feeling, and this one runs the gambit. I am looking forward to more in this series.
September 13, 2023
Great origin story of Sunny!!! I love the vampire world that Roh has created. It feels very realistic and believable with vampires and humans cohabiting the Earth.
July 3, 2023
What a great book! Rarely do we get to see things from a new “monster’s” perspective and it makes for an excellent twist in viewpoint. Sunny is just a young mom of a teenager trying to pull herself up by her bootstraps when the unthinkable happens. She is a very compelling character and her personal journey is riveting to read about. I can’t wait for the rest of the series to continue her journey!
December 24, 2023
Different beginning
An ordinary woman working, going to college, raising her daughter on her own. Life is rolling along until she begins to realize someone or something keeps watching her from afar. And so it goes for a couple weeks. At the mall shopping for birthday presents for Andrea, she has a panic attack and hurriedly leaves. But once in her car she is shocked when her window explodes and she is dragged out the opening. She has been grabbed by a Master vampire bent on turning her for reasons unknown.
What follows is her journey from human to monster. It’s not a pretty story, but Dunny is a fighter and she manages to find a few friends during her journeys.
I really enjoyed this opening book of The Chosen.
An ordinary woman working, going to college, raising her daughter on her own. Life is rolling along until she begins to realize someone or something keeps watching her from afar. And so it goes for a couple weeks. At the mall shopping for birthday presents for Andrea, she has a panic attack and hurriedly leaves. But once in her car she is shocked when her window explodes and she is dragged out the opening. She has been grabbed by a Master vampire bent on turning her for reasons unknown.
What follows is her journey from human to monster. It’s not a pretty story, but Dunny is a fighter and she manages to find a few friends during her journeys.
I really enjoyed this opening book of The Chosen.
July 8, 2024
Refreshing
This book tells the story from the beginning of a vampires journey, the hard ship she goes through as she matures into something other, while trying to keep her humanity. It's not the typical read, it holds your attention and keeps you routing for her. What will happen next.
This book tells the story from the beginning of a vampires journey, the hard ship she goes through as she matures into something other, while trying to keep her humanity. It's not the typical read, it holds your attention and keeps you routing for her. What will happen next.
November 4, 2023
love it
Great introduction to this series/universe. Gripping storyline. Characters that we want to know better. Looking forward to more books in this universe. Btw Ms. Morgon - good job!
Great introduction to this series/universe. Gripping storyline. Characters that we want to know better. Looking forward to more books in this universe. Btw Ms. Morgon - good job!
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