by Vanessa Len
What’s a girl to do when she finds out that she comes from a long line of monsters and her crush is a monster hunter? Run or fight? What will Joan choose? Let’s find out!
Read if you like: YA urban fantasy, YA paranormal, family secrets, time travel, soft love triangles, slow burn, hidden societies, protagonist is the bad guy, uncovering secret plots, boys who are more than they seem, and a girl who is coming to grips with who she is and what that means for her family and the world she knows.
Joan’s family on her mom’s side has always been eccentric. But she loves spending the summers with the Hunts. And this year if even better because she has a fun and nerdy job with a swoon-worthy co-worker. Her summer is about to get better as she heads out for a date with Nick, but an accident leaves her reeling. She unintentionally reveals that she has followed in her family’s bloodline and is in fact a monster. And when she resolves herself to apologize to Nick, he is revealed as a hero of legend.
As her life goes from bad to worse her only ally appears to be a devastatingly handsome boy from a notoriously cruel and rival monster family, Aaron Oliver. How can she come to grips with the fact that as this story unfolds, she is the monster and will never be the hero?
What’s better than a YA paranormal romance? For me, not much. This hit all the marks. I was thrown off by the cover art thinking that this wasn’t set in present day, but that soon made sense and I was sold.
I love the characters. The pacing is great. The story is up and running from the first chapter. Lines are drawn and you know that there will be no choice but to cross them. The idea of monsters less horror and more moral, but there is magic… and a lot of secrets. Joan is grasping at bits and pieces of information she half remembers from her disbelief in her family heritage. The boys are both layered and hold their own secrets and you get to see their personal development through the story. The love triangle was sweet because you get to see both relationships from the very beginning. They are new and fragile and grow independently. I honestly don’t know who to root for and I can’t wait to see what develops in the next book. The ending throws you for a loop and then throws you a bone that you can’t help but gnaw on for clues. The second book can't come soon enough!
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