![]() ![]() They can leech time from humans, essentially shortening their lifespan, in order to travel through time themselves. The protagonist, Joan, comes from a family of time-travelling monsters on her mother's side. Maybe this was one of those times.īut Gran’s eyes weren’t shiny with a held-in joke. Gran sometimes told jokes without smiling. “Or like robots.” She’d seen enough cartoons to know. ![]() ![]() “Monsters look like giant spiders,” Joan said. In this book, you find yourself on the side of the monsters: moral dilemmas, grey areas, and all. It contains some tropes of the genre- teen girl comes into new powers, hints of a love triangle, heroes vs villains -but it subverts some too. I burned myself out on YA urban fantasy some years back, but it looks like I'm ready to get back in the game because I inhaled this. then somehow I seem to have ended up here at the end, a little bleary-eyed and disoriented. I was just going to sample the arc, read a few pages, see if it was something that might interest me down the line. I didn't actually mean to read it right now. Only a Monster, as of my writing this, does not release for another five months. He gave her his familiar solemn smile, the one that he’d given her all the time at the house. ![]()
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