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A review by simonlorden
Someone You Can Build a Nest In by John Wiswell
dark
emotional
tense
5.0
I received an ARC through NetGalley for free, and this is my honest and voluntary review.
A unique and exceptional book. A sapphic romance from the perspective of a monster, Shesheshen.
Shesheshen's body is truly monstrous - she is really like a slime blob, and she needs to feed to design organs for herself, and stones and metal to make bones out of. Oh, and she eats people or something. But just like Frankenstein, the true monster isn't the one you expect.
In fact, the true monster is probably the horrific abuse Homily suffered from her entire family. Yikes. I would advise anyone triggered by such topics to be cautious reading this, because I have no related trauma but it was still pretty difficult at times. She deserves better, man.
This book has both dark and humorous parts. Dark, like when Shesheshen eats people, but also humorous and sometimes bleak as she looks at humanity through the eyes of something non-human. They call her a monster, and yet in this book, it's humans who are equally monstrous.
It was interesting to see words like allosexual and enby be included in a fantasy book. I'm not sure how I really feel about it. My first reaction was that it doesn't really fit, but I think I wouldn't mind seeing it become more normalized. Even if enby is kind of a strange word to me.
A unique and exceptional book. A sapphic romance from the perspective of a monster, Shesheshen.
Shesheshen's body is truly monstrous - she is really like a slime blob, and she needs to feed to design organs for herself, and stones and metal to make bones out of. Oh, and she eats people or something. But just like Frankenstein, the true monster isn't the one you expect.
In fact, the true monster is probably the horrific abuse Homily suffered from her entire family. Yikes. I would advise anyone triggered by such topics to be cautious reading this, because I have no related trauma but it was still pretty difficult at times. She deserves better, man.
This book has both dark and humorous parts. Dark, like when Shesheshen eats people, but also humorous and sometimes bleak as she looks at humanity through the eyes of something non-human. They call her a monster, and yet in this book, it's humans who are equally monstrous.
It was interesting to see words like allosexual and enby be included in a fantasy book. I'm not sure how I really feel about it. My first reaction was that it doesn't really fit, but I think I wouldn't mind seeing it become more normalized. Even if enby is kind of a strange word to me.