Ava

I'm still processing Automatic Noodle, and I think I will be for a long time. When I started it, I did not expect to find something so profound. Automatic Noodle is a book set in the future that captures the feeling of living today as a queer person. The feeling of watching your rights being stripped away and listening to people debate your very personhood, and yet still needing to get up and go to work in the morning. The feeling of impending doom, and yet still having to live your life because there's nothing else you can do.

However, this book is about hope. Not just surviving but thriving despite shitty conditions and a hostile world. Fighting for yourself but not by yourself. Finding connection and community. Living, despite everything.

I needed this book, and I don't think I will ever forget it.

How to Get a Girlfriend (When You're a Terrifying Monster) is everything I wanted. Eldritch horror, baby gay anxiety, and neurospicy undertones. It's a light, fun read. I think a longer word count could have given more room to flesh out the world and explore the romance a bit more, but it makes good use of its short length.

I highly recommend How to Get a Girlfriend to anyone looking for a short, fun, sapphic romance.