Title: How to Get a Girlfriend (When You’re a Terrifying Monster)
Author: Marie Cardno
Series: Monster Girlfriend #1
Rating Out of 5: 4 (Really good read!)
My Bookshelves: Humour, LGBTQI, Science fiction
Pace: Slow
Format: eBook, Novel
Year: 2022

Weirdly enough, I spent the entirety of this story trying to figure out if I liked this story or not. It wasn’t quite what I expected, and thus, I didn’t necessarily feel like I was confident in my feelings. And, even when writing this and reflecting on How to Get a Girlfriend (When You’re a Terrifying Monster), I have odd feelings. Overall, I really enjoyed this story and I will read more by Cardno. But, honestly, it was nothing like what I had anticipated.

How to Get a Girlfriend (When You’re a Terrifying Monster) was a very cute and sweet sapphic romance at it’s core. Even if it’s a romance between a witch and a monster. Who is not really humanoid in shape at all. Not normally the kind of romance that I get into. But the satire throughout this kind of made it, less, cringey I suppose. Honestly, the whole idea of wanting to “fuck her research” was kind of hilarious. And I love how blunt that approach is.

The description of different worlds in this novella was great. We have one world which is loosely based on earth, just with an urban fantasy / paranormal fantasy bent. And then there’s the Endless. That’s just a world filled with pure insanity and a moving world. It’s incredibly easy to picture these different worlds with different rule sets. The fact that Sina and Trillian find themselves transversing both realities to head towards their happily ever after… priceless.

How to Get a Girlfriend (When You’re a Terrifying Monster) is a bizarre, unique and fun little novella. It was nothing like what I was anticipating, but I actually kind of loved that. I may not have found this impossible to put down, but I did find it impossible to forget.

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