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A review by lkedzie
Someone You Can Build a Nest In by John Wiswell
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
The Thing as a romantic comedy.
It is your usual girl meets girl, except girl is monster, and the real monsters are the humans, except thatthey are also monsters , skewing into Space Whale Aesop territory. And did no one think about the Unfortunate Implication that the protagonist and love interest are sisters, with the same mother and the same father but in different ways ? I guess that skews from porntastic territory due tothe one being asexual and the other being a parasitoid .
Anyway, it gets billed as horror-romance but it is strictly romance, just with more organ-shuffling. Which, yes, there is a lot of in romance, but no, not like that. It is not a criticism, mind you, but I could see some great unhappiness coming out of someone going into this and expecting something different. The plot is paper thin and utterly adorable. It moves along at a spry pace and is just right in terms of length.
There is a lot of comedy, but it is only one joke. The author was aiming for The Murderbot Diaries but twee. It lands in Autism played for laughs. This got old after the first section, but as relegated to quirky observations and one-liner non-sequiturs, it can be easily put to the side.
A disposable take on a banger of a concept - someone rewrite this as only horror, please - with writing good enough to carry it.
It is your usual girl meets girl, except girl is monster, and the real monsters are the humans, except that
Anyway, it gets billed as horror-romance but it is strictly romance, just with more organ-shuffling. Which, yes, there is a lot of in romance, but no, not like that. It is not a criticism, mind you, but I could see some great unhappiness coming out of someone going into this and expecting something different. The plot is paper thin and utterly adorable. It moves along at a spry pace and is just right in terms of length.
There is a lot of comedy, but it is only one joke. The author was aiming for The Murderbot Diaries but twee. It lands in Autism played for laughs. This got old after the first section, but as relegated to quirky observations and one-liner non-sequiturs, it can be easily put to the side.
A disposable take on a banger of a concept - someone rewrite this as only horror, please - with writing good enough to carry it.