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 Nes t 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 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 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' 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.