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  • Someone You Can Build a Nest In

  • Written by: John Wiswell
  • Narrated by: Carmen Rose
  • Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
  • 4.3 out of 5 stars (4 ratings)

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Someone You Can Build a Nest In

Written by: John Wiswell
Narrated by: Carmen Rose
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Shesheshen is a shapeshifter, who happily resides as an amorphous lump at the bottom of a ruined manor. When her rest is interrupted by hunters intent on murdering her, she constructs a body using a metal chain for a backbone, borrowed bones for limbs, and a bear trap as an extra mouth. However, the hunters chase Shesheshen out of her home and off a cliff. Badly hurt, she's found and nursed back to health by Homily, a warmhearted human, who has mistaken Shesheshen as a fellow human. Homily is kind and nurturing and would make an excellent coparent: an ideal place to lay Shesheshen's eggs so their young could devour Homily from the inside out. But as they grow close, she realizes humans don't think about love that way.

Shesheshen hates keeping her identity secret from Homily, but just as she's about to confess, Homily reveals why she's in the area: she's hunting a shapeshifting monster that supposedly cursed her family. Shesheshen didn't curse anyone, but to give herself and Homily a chance at happiness, she has to figure out why Homily's twisted family thinks she did. As the hunt for the monster becomes increasingly deadly, Shesheshen must unearth the truth quickly, or soon both of their lives will be at risk. And the bigger challenge remains: surviving her toxic in-laws long enough to learn to build a life with, rather than in, the love of her life.

©2024 John Wiswell (P)2024 Tantor
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Strange, thoughtful, and disgusting in all the best ways

Not a book for the squeamish - the body horror warnings are well earned (tried listening with a friend and she couldn't make it past chapter 2). But, Shesheshen is a delightfully strange person and a character I loved reading about. She exists in this state of constantly having to adjust herself to fit into a world in which she doesn't fit, and it's painful and awkward and difficult, but it's also the baseline reality of her existence. There are multiple layers of disability metaphor built in, and beautifully handled. It is also a story about trauma, abuse, and recovery. And love - how you don't have to be a perfect person to give it or receive it.


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The Thing as a lesbian romantic comedy

If you've ever wanted a lesbian romantic comedy set in medieval Europe starring an abuse victim and John Carpenter's The Thing, this is the perfect book for you. Even if you don't think you want that (for some baffling reason) try it out! Weird, charming, and full of body horror and neurodivergence, Someone to Build a Nest In is a delight from start to finish. I look forward to future work from debut author Wiswell.

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