GoodReads Monday

This weekly meme was started by @Lauren’s Page Turners. It is now being hosted by Budget Tales Book Blog. To participate, choose a random book from your GoodReads TBR and show it off. Which sounds easy enough until you have to decide how to choose that book! I think I will use a different way each week, like picking a color or number of pages. I will let you know each week how I chose the book and then something interesting about it, like how it ended up on the list or why I want to read it. Got it? Okay let’s get started.

Happy Monday! I hope you are all having a great day. This week’s pick is brought to you by the letter ‘N’. It is the second book in a series that just came out last week. I am hoping that my library gets the book soon because I am low enough on the list that I should get a copy pretty quickly. I really liked Only a Monster last year and am really looking forward to reading this one.

Never A Hero by Vanessa Len

Publication Date: August 29, 2023

Summary from Goodreads:

Despite all of the odds, Joan achieved the impossible. She reset the timeline, saved her family – and destroyed the hero, Nick.

But her success has come at a terrible cost.

She alone remembers what happened. Now, Aaron, her hard-won friend – and maybe more – is an enemy, trying to kill her. And Nick, the boy she loved, is a stranger who doesn’t even know her name. Only Joan remembers that there is a ruthless and dangerous enemy still out there.

When a deadly attack forces Joan back into the monster world as a fugitive, she finds herself on the run with Nick – as Aaron closes in.

As the danger rises – and Nick gets perilously closer to discovering the truth of what Joan did to him – Joan discovers a secret of her own. One that threatens everyone she loves.

Torn between love and family and monstrous choices, Joan must find a way to re-gather her old allies to face down the deadliest of enemies, and to save the timeline itself.

I think that I remember the first book well enough that I won’t be too lost when I start this one. I also just noticed that it is a trilogy, which I’m not sure I knew before. But that is ok. I just hope this one doesn’t suffer from middle book syndrome.