What Janine is Reading: 2022 YA Fantasies

Only a Monster by Vanessa Len

This YA fantasy novel, Vanessa Len’s debut, was recommended highly by two people I trust, so I stuck with it even though it had a slow and seemingly pedestrian beginning. When Joan, a British East Asian girl, is little, her grandmother tells her that she is half-monster, but Joan doesn’t understand what that means until she accidentally time travels several hours into the future and learns that she did it at someone’s expense. In this book, which begins in modern-da...