This is a funny, heartwarming story that nearly everyone can read about a brave little chipmunk and her best friend a necromancing lich. Together they solve magical mysteries while learning what it's like to be alive...or undead.
This isn't a typical love story, though there's plenty of typical elements. The main character is a genderless alien trapped in the body of a human female. Many different kinds of love are explored, but there is no shortage of mature themes as we follow the main character in their curiosity and struggle to find out what it means to be human and who they were and are no longer being fully alien, but neither being fully human as well.
The male lead is a savant-like genius who finds himself most imperiled by boredom. He is fascinated upon meeting the main character, intuitively sensing something is different about them. While he quickly becomes smitten, many obstacles arise and our main character often finds him troublesome and obnoxious.
There is a mixture of scifi and fantasy as well as psychological and philosophical angles as both characters question themselves, each other and the nature of life in the universe. There's also action and suspense with unexpected plot twists.