Rating: 4/5 stars

Category: Fantasy, Romance, Adventure, YA

Publisher: Hodder and Stoughton

Publication date: 29^th August 2023

Pages: 496

Hello Readers, welcome back to my blog.

We are well into the ember months now and several holidays are approaching, I hope planning is going great. All my planning seems to be in my head right now, just mapping things on paper before I take action. Speaking of taking action, the villain in this story had a great plan and executed it to perfection.

SYNOPSIS

Despite all of the odds, Joan achieved the impossible. She reset the timeline, saved her family – and destroyed the hero, Nick.

But her success has come at a terrible cost.

She alone remembers what happened. Now, Aaron, her hard-won friend – and maybe more – is an enemy, trying to kill her. And Nick, the boy she loved, is a stranger who doesn’t even know her name. Only Joan remembers that there is a ruthless and dangerous enemy still out there.

When a deadly attack forces Joan back into the monster world as a fugitive, she finds herself on the run with Nick – as Aaron closes in.

As the danger rises – and Nick gets perilously closer to discovering the truth of what Joan did to him – Joan discovers a secret of her own. One that threatens everyone she loves.

Torn between love and family and monstrous choices, Joan must find a way to re-gather her old allies to face down the deadliest of enemies, and to save the timeline itself.

Vanessa Len’s stunning Only a Monster trilogy continues with this second instalment, a thrilling journey where a secret past threatens to unravel everyone’s future.

Review                                   

Such complicated emotions, to lose her family and gain them again, then lose her love but gain him again in a different way, all in very little time to process. The twist at the end was spectacular, I never experected it (and yes, I have deliberately spelt ‘expected’ wrong – if you know, you know). As expected of the YA genre, the language and sentence formations are simple and easy to follow. I gave 4 out of 5 stars because the end was worth it, even though I felt like I couldn’t see initially the point of the second book, now I can’t wait for the third book.

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Have a great week and God bless

Ephesians 3:18 And may you have the power to understand, as well God’s people should, how wide, how long, how high, and how deep his love is.