A review by wardenred
How to Get a Girlfriend When You're A Terrifying Monster by Marie Cardno

emotional funny medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

Changing is easy. It’s staying the same that’s so hard.

Oh my. Was this written purposefully for me or what? 

I came for the eldritch-flavored romance, but I ended up staying just for the eldritch. It’s nothing *that* innovative, I suppose—all the familiar tentacles and too many eyes and spaces that keep changing on you in all possible and impossible ways—but it’s just so nicely done.

I loved the Endless Void. I loved the interactions between Trillis, a fragment of the Endless, and Sian, a magic student doing her thesis on the eldritch dimension. (I so envy Sian, I want to go to an eldritch dimension, too, for science.) I loved it all so much I didn’t even mind the instant attraction which is normally a meh or even a turn off for me. Everything about this book is just so surreally cute and horrifically cozy and delightfully trippy.

Oh, and the writing is chef’s kiss. So witty and whacky, it just suits the subject material perfectly, you know? This is exactly how we should all write about cosmic horrors when we present them as just, you know, entities that exist and can even be loved, and not unknowable antagonists.

I don’t know what else to say except that I love this to bits and want more. Excuse me while I go turn into a happy puddle of goo.