Someone You Can Build a Nest In

Shesheshen can make her body out of anything and hide anything in it (your skull, that branch, a bear trap) and she's so good she can look like a real human too no matter how much she's carrying around— likely to trick you so she can eat you. We meet her when she is woken up by hunters towards the end of her hibernation. After she becomes injured during her escape, she is found and saved by a kind traveler.

I immediately loved Shesheshen and being in her head. It was interesting and sometimes funny to see her commentary on how monstrous humans are and how much she understands about the human mind, while also being like wtf is up with humans and not really knowing a lot about herself. I did start to struggle around the quarter point, then there were some mean, nasty AF characters, and then there was some animal abuse, but I was satisfied with how it was resolving and the twist. There is a sort of arc shift in the last 2-3 chapters, but I LOVED it. Those chapters could easily become their own book and I would definitely devour that. Maybe Wiswell will write a novella.

I was impressed by how Wiswell handled mental/verbal (and reference to physical) sibling and parental abuse in this and I can see this being a hard or cathartic read for that reason. And humans are eaten in this book so that might be disturbing for some. So m