Pub Day! Only a Monster by Vanessa Len
This gorgeous book is having a birthday today - buy it or borrow it, you’re sure to enjoy it. Read my review here
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Early Review: Only a Monster by Vanessa Len
Only a Monster by Vanessa Len Pub date Feb 22, 2022 Well, this was a crazy ride. Monsters (literal and figurative), time travel, super powers, a heist, first love. There’s a LOT going on. It’s very much it’s own kind of fairytale, with its morality lessons and the simple language Len uses. She could have started it with “Once upon a time” and it wouldn’t have felt out of place. To me, the moral dilemma Joan finds herself in was the most intriguing part of the book. (Which is saying something, considering the premise and the plot.) It tackles the perennial issue of the nature of right & wrong/good & evil. It turns everything on its head. The good guy is the bad guy? The bad guy is the good guy? Or maybe a little bit of both? Or neither? Joan has grown up being told that she’s a monster. She didn’t know that it was meant literally. She clearly has a strong moral compass and a conscience and always tries to do the right thing. It’s important to her to be a good person....