Joan Chang-Hunt is the protagonist of the Monsters trilogy by Vanessa Len. At the start of Only a Monster, Joan is a regular teenager spending the summer working at Holland House in London. Her world changes when she discovers that her family, the Hunts, are monsters with the power to steal time from humans.
Background
Joan is half-human on her mother’s side and half-monster on her father’s side, a member of the Hunt family. The monster families in Len’s world are not supernatural creatures but humans with inherited powers who have lived alongside ordinary people for centuries. Each family has different abilities, and the families have complex alliances and rivalries.
Story
When the legendary hero Nick arrives and begins hunting monsters, Joan’s family is attacked and scattered. Joan finds herself thrown back to 1993, where she must rely on her newly discovered powers and form an uneasy alliance with Nick himself. The trilogy follows Joan as she learns the truth about the long war between heroes and monsters and discovers that the line between the two is not as clear as the stories suggest.
Reading Order
See the complete Monsters reading order for all books in the series.