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dwindlebunnies · 4 months

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I'm reading Only a Monster by Vanessa Len and it reads like a Miraculous Ladybug AU with Marinette and Felix as the main characters. Felinette isn't even one of my main ML ships but I can appreciate it. Felinette shippers, this book if for you. Look at the pretty cover.

Edit: Joan = Marinette, Aaron = Felix, Ruth = Alya, Nick = Lucas? I don't think Adrian is in this one at all.

#Felinette #Only a Monster #Vanessa Len #Miraculous Ladybug #ML

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thebookstan · 1 month

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Se os sonhos eram ruins, entretanto, ficar acordada era pior.

— Apenas Um Monstro

#trecho de livro #livros #quotes #vanessa len #bookstan

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bookaddict24-7 · 8 months

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New Young Adult Releases! (August 29th, 2023)

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Have I missed any new Young Adult releases? Have you added any of these books to your TBR? Let me know!

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New Standalones/First in a Series:

A Tall Dark Trouble by Vanessa Montalban

Pride & Prejudice & Pittsburg by Rachael Lippincott

Together We Rot by Skyla Arndt

After You Vanished by E.A. Neeves

The Reunion by Kit Frick

My Father, The Panda Killer by Jamie Jo Hoang

What Happened On Hicks Road by Hannah Jayne

Her Radiant Curse by Elizabeth Lim

The Infinity Particle by Wendy Xu

Night of the Living Queers by Various

House of Marionne by J. Elle

All You Have to Do by Autumn Allen

I Feed her to the Beast & the Beast is Me by Jamison Shea

More Than A Thief by Beverly Patt

Let's Never Speak of this Again by Megan Williams

New Sequels:

Never A Hero (Monsters #2) by Vanessa Len

The Brothers Hawthorne (The Inheritance Games #4) by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

Reign (American Royals #4) by Katharine McGee

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Happy reading!

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lola-lightwood · 6 months

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Time for me to post some Aaron Oliver quotes to pass the time till Book 3

SPOILERS for Never a Hero by Vanessa Len below

"I guess you'd changed your mind, because you told me that if I managed to undo the massacre, I could never meet you. I could never trust you. You said..." I won't remember what you mean to me. Joan heard her own voice crack. "You--you said you'd hate me in this new timeline."

Aaron's expression was hard. “Well your fictional me was right about that.”

STOP HE’S SO SASSY. Let's have a moment of silence for Joan’s heart:

"You gave me a brooch just before I left. You found it in a cupboard at the safe house. A brown bird in a cage."

"What?" Aaron sounded truly shocked now...He was staring at her as if he were seeing her for the first time.

Aaron after Joan mentioned his mother's brooch:

"Why do the Nightingales think that you informed on her?" Joan whispered. "I know you didn't."

"Why do you keep saying that?" Aaron said. He sounded wary, but there was a new vulnerable note in his voice as well.

"You just wouldn't. You wouldn't do that. If anyone had informed on her, it would have been--" She cut herself off as the truth finally clicked. "Your father," she said slowly. In response Aaron made a soft sound.

I WANT AN AUDIO RECORDING OF THAT SOFT SOUND. I love that Joan just knows him. And that's huge for a boy that was never seen. Who is constantly discarded and insulted by those who are supposed to love him. Joan to Aaron:

"Your name is Joan, right?

Joan:

It cut with the same knife jab as when Nick had asked for her name.

Aaron's eyes flickered over her face; he'd caught the emotion. His voice gentled. "It's Joan?"

Joan nodded. "Okay, Joan," he said.

"Okay what?" "Okay, I believe you."

Joan's throat felt thick with tears suddenly. She hadn't expected him to say that. Not so quickly.

"You believe we knew each other?" she said.

"I believe everything you said."

me after this scene:

"I missed you," Joan managed. "In this timeline." It came out with so much emotion that Aaron looked surprised.

"Sorry," Joan said. "I know you don't remember me. We just...We went through a lot of things together that no one else did. And I missed you. A lot."

Joan confessing:

Aaron was silent long enough that Joan could feel herself reddening.

It was too much to tell him--that she missed him when he'd barely met her.

"You're right. I don't know you," he said finally. Joan tried not to feel the blunt ache of it. He didn't remember her, and that was just the truth. "I do know, though," Aaron said, his gray eyes serious, "that if I gave you that brooch, I must have--" He hesitated.

"I must have trusted you very much."

What were you gonna say Aaron? what were you going to say?

Let's speculate - I think he was going to say 'cared' so "I must have cared for you very much."

If we're going crazy and if you're a lovesick fool like me then "I must have loved you very much." But that's not realistic, Lauryn.

a girl can only dream.

and that's all for part 1 💜 thanks for reading my current obsession!

#aaron oliver #never a hero #vanessa len #aaron x joan #joan chang hunt

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ofstarsandmoonlightt · 7 months

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guys this reminds me of that time in Lord of Shadows when Emma and Julian were discussing family mottos lol:

(📖: only a monster: vanessa len)

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monomatica · 8 months

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Type Map for Never a Hero by Vanessa Len 🕰️

WOW this book is incredible. There’s so much going on that I wanted to include in this artwork aside from words: beautiful Joan, time travel, different years, a winged lion, the Hunt symbol, Eleanor’s sigil and a feeling of uncertainty over the unknown. The ending truly blew my mind and I cannot wait for the next book!

Also, I 🖤 Aaron, but Eleanor must be stopped.

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#never a hero #only a monster #vanessa len #ya fantasy #fantasy books #ya books #new books #book art #typemaps #book fan art #fan art #booklr #bookworm #bookstagram #booklover #bookomatica #handlettering #hand drawn #illustration

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clichedimagination · 7 months

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Just finished reading book 2 of Vanessa Len’s ‘Monsters’ trilogy and need to know if anyone else is a fan. If you love fantasy romance please read ‘Only a Monster’ by Vanessa Len and suffer with me while this series is still being written.

I devoured ‘Never a hero’ in the last two days I was reading as much and as fast as I could and now I need to catch up on sleep. Gotta wait another year for the next and final (I think) book 😩.

#only a monster #never a hero #Vanessa Len #book

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aaronjoannick · 24 days

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I really want to buy Never a Hero and some merchandise of this series. I only own Only a Monster. This series had me hooked.

#only a monster #monsters trilogy #vanessa len #never a hero

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mightydragoon · 5 months

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Nick Ward and Joan Chang Hunt

The tragedy of Nick Ward and Joan Chang Hunt's romance in Vanessa Len's Monsters Series just gets to me, man. A lot of people prefer Aaron Oliver and Joan together and I get it I really do, Aaron has some of the funniest lines in the series and a really investing backstory.

But there is just something so intriguing and captivating about Nick and Joan. These are two people who have hurt each other one way or another and yet can't bring themselves to kill the other.

Nick was broken by his trauma he was kept in a time loop for possibly years, forcibly conditioned and forged into becoming a hero and the the thing is he isn't exactly wrong. Monsters steal time from people, a day, a lifetime it all adds up and even Joan recognises Monsters can use it for trivial shit.

Yet Nick never hurts Joan. He even starts the attacks on the Olivers specifically because they try to kill her. Even with their relationship at their worse, he can't kill her and Joan can't kill him despite trying to.

“I mean it,” she said. “You’re dead.” He gave her his familiar solemn smile, the one that he’d given her all the time at the house. “Aren’t we all,” he said. “Somewhere on the timeline.”

And it hurts how both of them recognise this is sides they must choose. Until Joan manages to restart everything and give Nick his family back.

I think things really got more to me once we got to Never a Hero and Nick forgot everything and we get to see him and Joan interact with each other and how he's already falling for her again. With Joan trying to keep him at arm's length but can't.

This isn't a Nick who was traumatised by seeing the deaths of his family over and over again, this is a Nick who was happy with his life until his life got uprooted again. And the way he tries to look out for Joan and Joan understandably be conflicted over the whole thing is great. Plus his reactions to the other timelines is just....It kills me. He's horrified at himself, man but also struck that there was a Nick and Joan happy with the other.

His eyes were still on the walkway too. And … Joan’s breath caught. He looked cracked open and raw. It lasted for just a moment. By the time he turned to meet her eyes, his expression was closed again.

It's the story of two people who know they probably shouldn't love the other and yet their hearts refuse to tell them so, two nerds who love history and worked together at a historical house, two kids who hunted the other. Two people who will remake and reforge the entire world just to protect the other for better or worse.

They were just two teens who wanted to be together and just wanted to be happy as a couple and help create peace for Monsters and Humans.

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island-in-ignorance · 7 months

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How Never a Hero left me. I keep letting Vanessa Len hurt me and honestly? Good for her.

#books #booklr #tbr #fantasy #ya fantasy #young adult books #never a hero #only a monster #vanessa len #aaron oliver

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fangirl-of-music · 6 months

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Only A Monster Love Triangle

#only a monster #vanessa len #aaron oliver #never a hero #nick Ward

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lola-lightwood · 1 year

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Missing Aaron hours

Joan: “How do you know? You haven’t even tried. What does it hurt to try?”

Aaron: “You! When you realize that you can’t, it’s going to hurt you!” —then he scowled as if he hadn’t meant to say them out loud.

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Meanwhile Ruth: “He’s hot.”

#aaron oliver #only a monster #Joan hunt #Vanessa Len #ya blonde men #aaron #aaron x Joan #is that a ship?#I’m shipping!

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pessimistic-hedgehog · 7 months

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i finished reading this in like one day and it was so so amazing

enemies to lovers (sort of lovers to enemies to lovers to enemies??lol it's a cycle)

blurred lines between good and evil

main character is a villain (sort of)

amazing plot

a whole hidden world

time travel

rivalling families

monster court heist

biracial asian representation

a love triangle that isn't annoying (it ends by the end of the book anyway) (edit: it gets annoying in book 2 actually because I hate Nick now) (I love Aaron because who doesn't love a blonde, gentlemen-like, soft boy who doesn't really touch anyone but the girl he has feelings for...)

highly recommend for ya fantasy book lovers

#ya books #vanessa len #only a monster #joan chang-hunt #aaron oliver #nick hunt #fantasy

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fruitcookiesgirl · 7 months

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Finished Never a Hero and am honestly shocked not more people are talking about this series. I read the first book when it debuted last year and couldn’t wait for this second installment. If you’ve read it, I need someone to talk to about this book!!

#never a hero #Vanessa len #aaron oliver #Joan hunt #joan graves #ya fantasy #ya fantasy romance #ya lit

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jewishraypalmer · 8 months

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I re-read Only a Monster bc the sequel is coming out and so this is me being your friendly neighborhood librarian giving y'all a good YA rec bc I love this book so if you love time traveling to the 90s and also a "what makes a monster and what makes a hero" narrative you will like this book also I hate love triangles and I still love this book

#if you are nostalgic for a twilight era love triangle than boy oh boy do i have the book for you 😂😂😂#only a monster #vanessa len #also in general I LOVE giving middle grade and YA recs so I'm here if ya need any

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aaronjoannick · 3 months

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The way Joanick has both the 'kill the one you love to save the world' and the 'destroy the world to save the one you love.' And it's even better that killing the one you love to save the world (and in Joan's case save her family) is coming from the monster. And the saving the one you love even if it means destroying the world (by making it monster run) is coming from the hero. This series is SO good.

#monsters trilogy #joan chang hunt #nick ward #vanessa len #joan x nick #never a hero #joanick #joannick #joannick parallels

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