How to Get a Girlfriend (When You're a Terrifying Monster) (Monster Girlfriend, #1)

by Marie Cardno

The human had a skeleton underneath, didn’t she? She thought about adjusting her eyes to see through the human’s surrounding flesh to the bones beneath, to see how they worked, but that seemed rude. They hardly knew each other. She didn’t know much about human customs, but skeletons had to be private, or else why would they be so carefully wrapped up?

Such adorable innocence.

She was pretty sure inhabitants of the Endless Void weren’t meant to be hot.

And when she did come back, Trillin would say … something. Something really good. Smart. Witty. Maybe even … alluring. Trillin wasn’t entirely sure what alluring meant, but she suspected it was a big part of being girlfriend material.

Until her bespelled, enchanted, purportedly unbreakable climbing rope had snapped far above her. No time to wonder why. She’d fallen ten metres to what passed for ground in this dimension. Fortunately, it was soft. Unfortunately, it immediately attacked her.