A Certain Hunger

Hmm... Sorry... I don't get the hype... This is not horror. Maybe it's too literary for me. 🤷

Also if I wanted to read a travel report about Italy or a gourmet cook book, I would have. As it is I was expecting to read a horror book. Maybe that's on me but yeah...

I can appreciate that it is well written thus the 2.5 stars (even though it got way too pretentious for me from time to time) but sadly the story was mostly boring to me. And I'm really sorry about that cause I was looking forward so much to this.

dnfing this for now! the protagonist requires none of my sympathy or attention, and the depressing subject matter doesn't help

I thoroughly enjoyed this book, from the food to the sex to the killings to the reminiscences–it was all a trip and I look forward to more from Chelsea Summers. Her irreverent humour, her assertive feminine persona, her abrasive and in-your-face opinions–it's all a hoot. Highly recommended.

love love love

One sentence synopsis... From inside a correctional facility, a former food writer and serial killer narrates her life's story as told through the meals and the men she's consumed.

Read it if you like... the most obvious comparison is obviously Hannibal (specifically the Mads television version). Summers's writing is as metaphor-heavy as Raymond Chandler, with plenty of food comparisons to work with. But she tries to squeeze too much into a slim novel - the democratization of writing on the internet, feminism, the industrial meat complex, the history of cannibalism, the modern art world, etc - and isn't completely successful in blending everything together.

Dream casting... Julianne Moore as Dorothy Daniels.