A Certain Hunger

Horror literary fiction written in the style of a memoir, it follows the life of Dorothy a renown food critic and gourmet, who also moonlights as a cannibalistic serial killer. 
I absolutely devoured this book, pun intended.  The author's style was lush and ferociously intelligent with a high sense of culture. The main character was decidedly an unhinged psychopath woman yet she had such a compelling voice and her love for (normal food) but also anything Italian was great to read about (as a half Italian foodie myself).  The different scenes involving food and murder made me feel at turns hungry and disgusted. The author did a great job mixing these two feelings in addition to showing the sexuality and sensuality of the character.  Some parts, especially those explaining a cultural or scientific fact, felt like some info dumping by the author, and it felt more like her voice than her character's, so this took me out of the fiction.  This was such an incredible debut and I'm looking forward to read more of Chelsea Summers' books.