--- title: "Review: Life of Melody, by Mari Costa" description: Suzanne recommends Life of Melody, a charming PG fantasy romance comic about a fairy and a beast coparenting a human baby! image: https://www.loveinpanels.com/hubfs/life-of-melody.jpg --- [![LoveinPanelswhite.png](https://www.loveinpanels.com/hs-fs/hubfs/LoveinPanelswhite.png?width=640&height=225&name=LoveinPanelswhite.png "LoveinPanelswhite.png")](http://loveinpanels.com/) Search ![Life of Melody Cover](https://www.loveinpanels.com/hs-fs/hubfs/life-of-melody.jpg?height=500&name=life-of-melody.jpg) **Title**: Life of Melody **Creators**: - [Mari Costa](https://www.loveinpanels.com/comicsearch?creators=Mari%20Costa) **Format**: EBook Print **Color**: Color **Romanceiness**: Definitely a Romance **Heat**: PG13 **Tags**: [queer](https://www.loveinpanels.com/comicsearch?tags=queer) [gay](https://www.loveinpanels.com/comicsearch?tags=gay) [m-m](https://www.loveinpanels.com/comicsearch?tags=m-m) [fairy](https://www.loveinpanels.com/comicsearch?tags=fairy) [beast](https://www.loveinpanels.com/comicsearch?tags=beast) [troll](https://www.loveinpanels.com/comicsearch?tags=troll) [paranormal](https://www.loveinpanels.com/comicsearch?tags=paranormal) [fantasy](https://www.loveinpanels.com/comicsearch?tags=fantasy) [roommates](https://www.loveinpanels.com/comicsearch?tags=roommates) [kisses only](https://www.loveinpanels.com/comicsearch?tags=kisses%20only) [forced proximity](https://www.loveinpanels.com/comicsearch?tags=forced%20proximity) [comedy](https://www.loveinpanels.com/comicsearch?tags=comedy) [rivals to lovers](https://www.loveinpanels.com/comicsearch?tags=rivals%20to%20lovers) **Where to Buy or Read**: If you'd like to purchase a copy of this book, please consider using one of these links to support the site: ** [Amazon](https://amzn.to/3Ct8HvA) ◊ [Kobo](https://click.linksynergy.com/deeplink?id=2J8ZNsFdbgk&mid=37217&murl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.kobo.com%2Fus%2Fen%2Febook%2Flife-of-melody) ◊ [Hiveworks](https://hivemill.com/products/life-of-melody) ** **Synopsis from the Creator**: Razzmatazz is a fairy godparent, a magical entity tasked with overlooking Fairytales and their human protagonists for the duration of the tale. Humans are regarded as pretty difficult to work with by the fairies, as they keep having opinions and oppositions that derail their stories. Razzmatazz decides that the perfect solution to get around how unaccommodating humans can be is to raise a Fairytale protagonist from infancy to her 18th birthday. Despite his superiors telling him the idea is completely crazy, he commits to it. In doing so, he also commits to becoming co-parent with a beast named Bon, who found the child at the same time as him in the woods. Bon and Razzmatazz settle into a human lifestyle and grow as parents, getting more and more attached to Melody. Razzmatazz begins to hesitate -confused by his feelings about his job, his new family, and Melody's future, leading both him and Bon to an important decision. *Life of Melody* is a sweet, magical slice of life story for teen readers and up, originally posted as an exclusive Patreon comic.  **Love In Panels' Review**:[Review of *Life of Melody*](https://www.loveinpanels.com/comics/life-of-melody) # [Review: Life of Melody, by Mari Costa](https://www.loveinpanels.com/comics/life-of-melody) [fa icon="calendar"] Jun 13, 2023 1:56:12 PM / by [Suzanne](https://www.loveinpanels.com/comics/author/suzanne) - [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share) Thanks to [Shop Your Shelves](https://www.loveinpanels.com/prose/shop-your-shelves-spring-2023), I finally read *Life of Melody*, by Mari Costa. It's everything I hoped it would be. A scholarly beast person and a failing fairy godfather meet in the woods when they separately follow the sound of a crying baby. Bon and Razzmatazz ("your name has four z's!") make bad first impressions, but they both want to take care of her so they make a deal to coparent. They pretend to be humans, taking on fake names to buy a dilapidated house and get jobs. Razzmatazz casts a fairy glamour for Bon. They bicker and have a couple of real fights, but like in the very best stories, the reader and author have an unspoken conversation about how foolish the characters are as they very clearly fall in love. Costa builds up a lovely community around this family of three and the result is a wonderful, thoroughly developed queer romance that reads like a big hug. The art is stylized but not overly so, with a good balance of detail and whimsy. The colors are saturated and cozy, but the artist isn't afraid to pull out the vivid reds and black backgrounds when the Bleak Moment hits. Melody may be the glue that brings and holds the two main characters together, but the grind of raising an infant doesn't overwhelm the story. Instead, we get a little Black human bundle of cute who grows into a school-age kid thoroughly grossed out by the sight of her dads kissing. Originally posted as a Patreon-exclusive webcomic, *Life of Melody *is available all over the place in print and ebook thanks to Hiveworks/Hivemill and Seven Seas. Not a romance, but my kids really liked Mari Costa's *Paranorthern*, too! 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