YMMV / Monster Blood III

• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: Once again, the book opens with an irrelevant nightmare about Monster Blood.
• Moral Event Horizon: Conan crosses it in the third book when he is shown threatening little kids with a baseball bat.
• The Scrappy: Evan is still disliked for the same reason but this book adds Kermit, a Spoiled Brat Insufferable Genius that spends most of his page time either using Evan as a guinea pig for his insane experiments (that almost always backfire) or getting Evan in trouble just to see him either punished or beaten up (and many fans speculate that Kermit may actually make his experiments backfire on purpose just to get Evan in even more trouble). Aunt Dee lets Kermit do whatever he wants and always believes his lies about Evan picking fights, leading her to scold him and treat him like crap.
• Too Bleak, Stopped Caring: The Monster Blood subseries, aside from the incredibly poor plots, has a lot of unlikable characters. Evan Ross, the protagonist of all four books, is an incredibly whiny preteen to the point of irritation and constantly makes the stupidest decision to tell others about the stuff when it's predictable no one will believe him. Conan Barber, who appeared in the second book of the series, is a ruthless bully who beats up Evan for minuscule incidents and doesn't even seem thankful for Evan saving his wailing skin from getting eaten by the class hamster who had grown into a beast due to the green stuff judging by his actions in the third book. Evan's cousin Kermit is an Insufferable Genius who often uses Evan as a guinea pig for his experiments and even gets him in trouble with Conan (and was even laughing at Evan getting his ass handed to him by said bully, according to Evan himself), as well as blaming Evan for his own troubles to Aunt Dee, who proves to be equally as despicable for not even taking the time to at least hear Evan's side of the story and automatically believes Kermit's lies, even when they are incredibly ridiculous. The only genuinely likable character in the series is Evan's friend Andy, and even she can come off as the Designated Hero, as shown in the second book of the series, in which she feeds Cuddles Monster Blood right behind Evan's back, thus getting in trouble with science teacher Mr. Murphy, who, too, fails to take the time to actually listen to what Evan has to tell him and punishes him for things he didn't even do, making him just as despicable as the other characters. Needless to say, there's a perfectly good reason why even the diehard fans of the series consider the Monster Blood series the most detestable of them all, and there's an equally good reason why Monster Blood for Breakfast! in the Horrorland series introduced a new protagonist.

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