Someone You Can Build a Nest In

De: John Wiswell

Narrado por: Carmen Rose

**Winner: Nebula Award for Best Novel**
**Winner: Locus Award for Best First Novel**
**Shortlisted for: Hugo Award for Best Novel**

'Stealthily funny, slyly smart, and remarkably touching' VERONICA ROTH, bestselling author of WHEN AMONG CROWS

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. Winner of the Nebula Award for Best Novel!

©2024 John Wiswell (P)2024 Quercus Editions Limited

This was so beautiful

I don’t know how a fantasy story told from the perspective of the monster everyone wants to kill managed to be so beautiful, but it was. Loved it.

interesting perspectives

something a bit different but enjoyable. good twist on the narrative despite a bit of body horror.