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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