Built on the premise of Build-a-Bear gone funhouse mirror build-a-boyfriend, Blob really is a love story, but maybe not in the way that you expect. Sure, Vi finds a sentient blob outside of a drag show in her Midwest college town, and sure she tries to turn that blob into the perfect boyfriend through the power of cereal, television, and wishful thinking, but at the core Blob is about falling back in love with the parts of yourself that you’ve thought you lost forever.
Blob by Maggie Su, (List Price: $26.99, Harper, 9780063358645, January 2025)
Reviewed by Mikey LaFave, Avid Bookshop in Athens, Georgia