Sadie Su is not your average bad girl. When she nearly kills a classmate, resulting in getting kicked out of her third boarding school in four years, you knew that she wasn't average. Sadie returns to her family's estate in California and is meant to stay out of trouble. However, that is the issue. Sadie tried, but she got bored. And Sadie is not your average trouble maker. 
 Emerson Tate's family doesn't have much and now it's just his mom and little brother. He wants his senior year to go smooth with plenty of basketball and landing the girl of his dreams. Emerson quickly realizes that with Sadie back in town, his fantasy year may come crashing down. He has secrets and Sadie knows the worst of them. All of which he wants to forget. And Sadie doesn't intend to let him. 
 Miles Tate may just be the most haunted of them all. He can see the future. When he sees the vision of violence at his school he knows it will comes true. They always do. Miles does tell someone. The new girl in town who listens to him. Is it because Sadie can see his inner monster? Or is it because they are all monsters? 
 Delicate Monsters is deliciously terrifying. Somehow Stephanie Kuehn found a way to completely suck me into her psychologically damaged characters. This book doesn't hold anything back but at the same time it doesn't overwhelm you with over-analysis. I found this read to be much darker than I had anticipated and just when a character got to be too much, the author switched it to a new perspective. 
 The unveiling of the past and present was balanced very well. Not once did I feel as if there were info-dumps. In fact, I thought the vagueness added to the mystery surrounding the characters. For me Delicate Monsters had natural transitions and keep me on edge till the end. And while some find the ending to be abrupt, I felt it only enhanced the rawness of this novel.