A book you can't really dislike, even if it feels too rough and ready and disjointed to make perfect sense. Our heroine is a self-appointed monster wrangler, and – just when it's time for her mother's group of hikers to go off into the hills – one has made itself known. It won't respond to a bait of chicken casserole, trying to lasso it won't help – but never fear, our girl is on the case. Despite – or of course because of – the fact she has Turner syndrome, which my copy was drastically short of information on.

Now, not knowing anything about this from the text, apart from her needing hearing aids, you can only wonder if her syndrome is 'the monster' and all its doing is actually her, but that soon proves not to be the case. But the problem is there – you don't know how to handle the monster side of things, or her syndrome, you have to wonder what is going on when she's not doing what she's asked, and with the peculiar attitude of the parents to both child and monster you can only see this as a bit wonky. There was a fine book here of a girl with the issue, plainly telling us all we would need to know about her, then saving the world. This has far too little of the first aspect, and a very iffy version of the second.

This book is so much fun, with a challenging vocabulary that can be worked out within the context of the story. Good diversity, as the protagonist Abby has Turner Syndrome - but this is incidental to the story. Mostly i just want to be her - Gabby hunts monsters with such kindness and empathy, and I would happily read more of her adventures please!