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A review by roadtripreader
How to Get a Girlfriend (When You're a Terrifying Monster) by Marie Cardno
adventurous
funny
lighthearted
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Word. This was surprisingly good and written with style and finesse. I am re-evaluating my expectations of spicy novellas beware, the bar just rose way up there. Also, this is a win for non-blurb readers - I saw a captivating cover and was drawn to it like a cobra to an urchin in the streets of Fez - and it was a good read.
Plot/Storyline/Themes:
It's a trippy fever dream traveling with an intrepid witch explorer into another dimension complete with a hot otherworldly entity, a not so hot but raging monster dormammu-ish entity and *insert lovey dovey sighs here* ...LOVE.
Two Sentences, A Scene or less - Characters:
🌸Sian is infectiously positive and optimistic in the face of being stranded, sans magic, in a dimension with a massive all encompassing tentacle monster. So likeable.
🌸Trillin is so asorable in her awkwardness and so relateable. You don't need to have a skeleton to fumble a meet cute, yoi can have tentacle and sprout extra eyes instead of blushing🤣
Favorite/Curious/Ludicrous/Unique Scene:
✔️Trillin saving Sian the furst time and realizing that The Endless was not self-aware.
✔️Sian's Cat-rabbit monster creature pet:
How did you do that?” she asked.
“What, giving it a scritch? Everything likes a scritch,” Sian said, and added to the crumb, “You’re like a cat, aren’t you? Or a rabbit. A cat-rabbit.
With, uh, lots of eyeballs. Which seems to be a trend, round these parts." - now I want my own monster pet thing
Favorite/Curious/Ludicrous/Unique Quotes:
🖤 “Her heart thudded. She suddenly had a heart to thud. It seemed to fill her entire body.” (self-awareness colliding with infatuation)
🖤 “Sian. A name like the sound of skin brushing against skin. Soft and intimate.” (Well, that's just sweet!)
Favorite/Curious/Ludicrous/Unique Concepts:
â– The Endless Void
â– Bunny Monster
â– The Endless
â– Spellsuit
StoryGraph Challenge: 1800 Books by 2025
Challenge Prompt: 150 Romance Books by 2025
Plot/Storyline/Themes:
It's a trippy fever dream traveling with an intrepid witch explorer into another dimension complete with a hot otherworldly entity, a not so hot but raging monster dormammu-ish entity and *insert lovey dovey sighs here* ...LOVE.
Two Sentences, A Scene or less - Characters:
🌸Sian is infectiously positive and optimistic in the face of being stranded, sans magic, in a dimension with a massive all encompassing tentacle monster. So likeable.
🌸Trillin is so asorable in her awkwardness and so relateable. You don't need to have a skeleton to fumble a meet cute, yoi can have tentacle and sprout extra eyes instead of blushing🤣
Favorite/Curious/Ludicrous/Unique Scene:
✔️Trillin saving Sian the furst time and realizing that The Endless was not self-aware.
✔️Sian's Cat-rabbit monster creature pet:
How did you do that?” she asked.
“What, giving it a scritch? Everything likes a scritch,” Sian said, and added to the crumb, “You’re like a cat, aren’t you? Or a rabbit. A cat-rabbit.
With, uh, lots of eyeballs. Which seems to be a trend, round these parts." - now I want my own monster pet thing
Favorite/Curious/Ludicrous/Unique Quotes:
🖤 “Her heart thudded. She suddenly had a heart to thud. It seemed to fill her entire body.” (self-awareness colliding with infatuation)
🖤 “Sian. A name like the sound of skin brushing against skin. Soft and intimate.” (Well, that's just sweet!)
Favorite/Curious/Ludicrous/Unique Concepts:
â– The Endless Void
â– Bunny Monster
â– The Endless
â– Spellsuit
StoryGraph Challenge: 1800 Books by 2025
Challenge Prompt: 150 Romance Books by 2025