Someone You Can Build a Nest In by John Wiswell (Audiobook format) ⭐⭐⭐ 1/2 /5 Sapphic monster romance? Uh, say less. I'm reading. Just finished this based off a pre-read rec from a friend that they got from one of their fanfic friends. It was a unique, fun listen (audiobook reader is 5/5 ⭐) /c - ThreadSky

tappytoeclaws.bsky.social • 111 days ago

Someone You Can Build a Nest In by John Wiswell (Audiobook format) ⭐⭐⭐ 1/2 /5

Sapphic monster romance? Uh, say less. I'm reading.

Just finished this based off a pre-read rec from a friend that they got from one of their fanfic friends. It was a unique, fun listen (audiobook reader is 5/5 ⭐) /c

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tappytoeclaws.bsky.social•111 days ago

Concept is FANTASTIC - the monster biology and some of the prose about all the weird body and bit descriptions of the monster character are really fun - but plot, pacing and ending feel really messy. There's also some (to me) jarring anachronisms that took me out of the world building immersion /c

tappytoeclaws.bsky.social•111 days ago

It definitely has BIG "first big project" feels for better but mostly worse IMO. Will give the (male) author credit for writing a sapphic romance that didn't feel like navel gazing or fetishizing. Honestly it felt sort of boring bc of how sexless it was, but my brain's also been REAL AO3-pilled /c

tappytoeclaws.bsky.social•111 days ago

Overall I would recommend it to people who want a killer audiobook narrator and who think the concept is intriguing but don't mind a mid-temperature finale. I'll be excited to see what else the author writes, but I'm not champing at any bits to read this one again. /fin

edisnoom.bsky.social•111 days ago

It can be difficult writing sapphic scenes without it being too tame, or too over the top. Even moreso for a guy.

tappytoeclaws.bsky.social•111 days ago

I get that and I don't think writing real wet and messy, explicit sex was even a goal of this book. The author may have well been intending the characters to come off as ace-spectrum honestly based on the way their relationship is described (which is *fine* obvs, just not my personal taste lol)

tappytoeclaws.bsky.social•111 days ago

Any romance is gonna be tame to me bc I've got friends over on AO3 who are writing like 10k words of the gooiest, weirdest, wildest (all positives) stuff that I've ever read for fun for FREE. But keeping things cool was definitely the purposeful choice here - just one that I was a little bored by.

blundercrush.bsky.social•111 days ago

Considering how bad the books I have been reading recently, almost any book read by another human will be an upgrade. maybe bsky will be my book rec savior (don't worry there are others, that is too much pressure for one person.)

sycamorewrought.bsky.social•110 days ago

I LOVED THIS BOOK!! I haven't listened to the audio version yet though, I'm absolutely gonna do that now !!

tappytoeclaws.bsky.social•110 days ago

Yeah, the audiobook is done very well.

blundercrush.bsky.social•111 days ago

snap checkout. please, feel free to keep putting book recs here. I do not love the tiktok.

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