Will I love Someone You Can Build a Nest In?

Wicked humor and wicked wit by an author with a bright mind. Unusual characters and point of view. Very enjoyable.

On the surface, this is a love story about a monster and a girl who also happens to be a monster hunter. I related to the introverted monster who just wanted to be left alone to go about her business, but finds she can't ignore what's going on around her and finds love in the most improbable of places. By turns this book was sweet, funny, exciting, and horrific.

I began recommending this book before I even finished it—it was that good. Maybe counterintuitively, I’d categorize it as cozy horror. Or fantasy romance. It’s a book that’s so very hard to describe. The main character is a literal monster, but their ability to shapeshift and “mask” was also relatable—as was her journey of falling in love. I adored reading about how she worked hard to make the person she cared for feel safe.

It’s an extremely comforting story in an unexpected genre wrapper.

Is it wrong to feel cozy while people are being digested by a monster? And yet. Shesheshen is a terrifying blob monster that has to eat and absorb people to use their bones to walk and talk.

She falls in love! Awww. She wants to lay her eggs in her love so they can feast on her beloved’s entrails. Ewww. This is straight-up horror. But it's somehow also funny and clever and heart-warming, even with all the murder.

I wanted to spend more time with Shesheshen, even though she probably would take the compliment by eating me for my shinbones.