2025 Hugo Finalists: Someone You Can Build a Nest In
Posted on 18 April 2025 in Literature • Tagged with books, hugo, reading, sci-fi
This post is part of the series, Reading the 2025 Hugo Finalists for Best Novel, where I am reading through all the 2025 Hugo Award Finalists for best novel.
Someone You Can Build a Nest In by John Wiswell deals with themes that most other Hugo winners I have read do not (or do little): dependence, pain, family, parenting, "otherness", self. It is a challenging read, yet has some good dark humor and a lot of action and adventure packed in.
The opening paragraphs set up the world of the novel splendidly and makes one eager to read more (quickly, in my case). From her very birth, in memory, of Shesheshen to her hibernation and immediate peril there is action and interest in her experiences -- I felt on "her side" right away and carried that relationship through the whole novel.
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