This was the most creative story I’ve read in a long time. I followed the hype I saw on bookstagram and honestly, I was rewarded. This book was one of those books where I may not have read the synopsis well enough to really understand what I was getting into. You want to go back a day? You need to steal a day off the end of someone’s life. Their monstrous ability is that they can travel through time and they do it by stealing time off the lives of humans. No, not like the gruesome kind that frighten young children. That is…until she touches an old man on the neck and ends up in the same place 12 hours later.Īnd then realization dawned on me that this book was going to be entirely different than what I expected.

For all intents and purposes, I thought this was going to be just another YA contemporary romance where it will be a cute, sweet toothache and nothing more. When Nick finally asks her out on a date, Joan is ecstatic and on the day of the date, she’s more than ready to meet her crush and have that awkward teenager relationship.

She’s been volunteering at a historic home that’s been turned into a small museum with her biggest crush, Nick. Only a Monster starts off with Joan spending her summer vacation with her family in London. We’ve seen countless stories of time travel in our lives, but what I haven’t seen in my reading life up to this point is a purely fantasy story use time travel in a way that really defies anything I’ve read before. I like the idea of these theoretical topics and how they are incorporated into science fiction stories. I’m a huge fan of science fiction books that dive into physics theories quantum physics, dark matter, string theory, etc. įind it on Amazon | Find it on My thoughts She’ll have to embrace her own monstrousness if she is to save herself, and her family.

And Nick isn’t just a cute boy: he’s a legendary monster slayer, who will do anything to bring them down.Īs she battles Nick, Joan is forced to work with the beautiful and ruthless Aaron Oliver, heir to a monster family that hates her own. Her family aren’t just eccentric: they’re monsters, with terrifying, hidden powers. She loves her nerdy job at the historic Holland House, and when her super cute co-worker Nick asks her on a date, it feels like everything is falling into place.īut she soon learns the truth. Sent to stay with her late mother’s eccentric family in London, sixteen-year-old Joan is determined to enjoy herself.

Only a monster vanessa len