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Someone You Can Build a Nest in: A cosy fantasy as sweet as love and as dark as night

John Wiswell

14 Reviews

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Adventure, Fantasy, Fantasy romance

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Beauty and the Beast meets The Shape of Water by the Nebula-award winning author of "Open House on Haunted Hill"

"Do love stories often end this way?" "Why do you think it's over?"

Shesheshen has made a fatal mistake for a monster: she's fallen in love.

Shesheshen is a shapeshifter, who usually resides as an amorphous lump in the swamp of a ruined manor, unless impolite monster hunters invade intent on murdering her. Through a chance encounter, she meets a different kind of human, warm-hearted Homily, who mistakes Shesheshen for a human in turn.

Shesheshen is loath to deceive, but just as she's about to confess her true identity, Homily reveals she's hunting the shapeshifting monster that supposedly cursed her family. Shesheshen didn't curse anyone, but to give them both a chance at happiness, she must figure out why Homily's twisted family thinks she did. And the bigger challenge remains: surviving her toxic in-laws long enough to learn to build a life with the woman she loves.

A glorious, funny, occasionally slightly violent love story which asks us to examine - and re-examine - the meaning of legacy, family and love.

Readers love John Wiswell:
'Like a warm hug' - Goodreads reviewer on "Open House on Haunted Hill"

'So very sweet . . . a perfect little story' - Goodreads reviewer on 'Open House on Haunted Hill'

'Heart-aching . . . you shouldn't miss this one' - Goodreads reviewer on 'Open House on Haunted Hill'

'Cozy and charming and made my heart grow three sizes which cannot be healthy' - Goodreads reviewer on "Open House on Haunted Hill"

'Has such a unique view and voice in his writing that his work is literally incomparable. And I can't wait for what comes next' - Goodreads reviewer on 'Open House on Haunted Hill'

Praise for Someone You Can Build a Nest in: A cosy fantasy as sweet as love and as dark as night

To take something normally so frightening and evil and turn it into the most endearing, lovable, cuddle-worthy (if one could cuddle a house) characters is nothing short of miraculous. And yet, it's completely this author's jam. - Goodreads reviewer on "Open House on Haunted Hill"
Like a warm hug. - Goodreads reviewer on "Open House on Haunted Hill"
Cozy and charming and made my heart grow three sizes which cannot be healthy - Goodreads reviewer on "Open House on Haunted Hill"
As much as I am a cynical, non-hugging beast of a human, I am also a big emotional softie and this almost made me tear up a bit. - Goodreads reviewer on "Open House on Haunted Hill"
Quirky, heartfelt, funny, and absolutely brimming with gore, just my sort of book! - Marianne Gordon, author of THE GILDED CROWN
A beautiful monster story with a heart, Wiswell treats his outcasts as heroes. He is an author the world desperately needs - J.R. Dawson, author of The First Bright Thing
Someone You Can Build a Nest In is charming, horrifying, sweet, and funny - everything I could have wanted from John Wiswell's debut novel and more! With the perfect blend of humor and darkness, it's a wholly fresh take on a monster story - A.C. Wise, author of Hooked
Someone You Can Build a Nest In is the future of fantasy: a fairy tale with boundaries, an imaginative world created in the shape of collective values rather than the boring old id, a portal to a place you've really never seen before instead of just a princess in a different outfit. This novel is going to change the entire genre - Meg Elison, Hugo and Locus award-winning author of The Book of the Unnamed Midwife
Quirky, heartfelt, funny, and absolutely brimming with gore, just my sort of book! - Marianne Gordon, author of The Gilded Crown
Horror blends with heart and whimsy in Wiswell's trope-twisting debut. It's monstrously fun! - Beth Cato, author of A Thousand Recipes For Revenge
Someone You Can Build a Nest In is sweetly furious, darkly funny, and gruesomely wholesome. It's a love story for the unloved, a happily-ever-after with a higher-than-average body count. I just adored it - Alix E. Harrow, New York Times-bestselling author of Starling House
The coziest, most unexpectedly wholesome love story about a monster who devours humans and wears their bones that I've ever read! - Naomi Kritzer, Hugo Award-winning author of Catfishing on CatNet
'Oozing with - among other things - Wiswell's inimitable charm and tenderness, this is a monstrous love story like nothing I've ever read before' - Premee Mohamed, author of Beneath the Rising
Imagine Grendel and Beowulf setting aside their differences and deciding to shack up totether and you'll have some idea of the flavour of this novel, which balances a sweet, sly sense of humour with some lovingly rendered scenes of gore - Financial Times