Only a Monster Can Kill a Hero by Vanessa Len

(Hodder & Stoughton, 2022)

Reviewed by John Dodd

Girl meets Boy, something special about him, first date soon results in mass murder…

Well, it’s not Twilight, that’s for sure.

Joan doesn’t believe that she’s a monster. She thinks that her gran is just saying those things in the way that misguided older relatives often do, and so she makes her way in the world till she finds someone who’s interested in her and takes the chance of going out to see them, to take her first steps in the adult world. Things don’t quite go to plan. Joan realises that her gran was telling the truth, and that she is in fact a monster and worse, that the boy she went to see for the first time is a Hero.

The Hero.

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