Reviews tagging 'Antisemitism'

A Certain Hunger by Chelsea G. Summers

28 reviews

morgue666's review

challenging dark funny mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

Took time to get used to the pretentiousness of the character but this is by no means a negative! I love cannibalism as a metaphor for love so I ate this up. My one criticism is I didn’t feel like the rape scene was necessary as quick as it was. Dorothy maybe could’ve avoided all this murder and cannibalism by dating Emma.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Cannibalism, Murder, Violence, Rape, and Blood

Minor: Antisemitism

cj_tatertott's review

dark reflective tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.25

This was a really interesting read, and I did really enjoy the visceral, descriptive writing style. The main character is fascinating, and is both relatable in some aspects and utterly horrifying in others. Good read, both entertaining and darkly philosophical at times. Definitely not for everyone, but I enjoyed it a lot!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Murder, Cannibalism, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Gore, Violence, Mental illness, and Death

Minor: Antisemitism, Animal death, and Cancer

avantlafinn's review

3.5

honestly not sure how i feel about this. it was fine, but i hated the narrator, and while that isn't inherently a problem, i found her annoying and it was very hard to read from her perspective because of the fact that i thought she was incredibly pretentious, and the lack of consistent interaction with other characters made it difficult to get past that, but i thought the concept was interesting and relatively well-executed. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Antisemitism, Gore, Murder, Cannibalism, and Violence

mmefish's review

Not only it's blatantly racist and anti-Semitic (you can't just say "my character is a psychopath" and pretend that it makes anything you write OK), it's also laughably edgy, overwritten and unnecessary vulgar in relations to sex.

Includes gems like:

"In an arc as perfect as a fifteen-year-old girl's breast [...]"

And

"I imagined the relief after my hymen broke [...]"

For the love of god, learn your own body's anatomy.

Chelsea Summers writes women as Men-Writing-Women write women. In what world this piece of garbage is feminist?

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Sexual content, Antisemitism, and Rape

abicaro17's review

challenging dark mysterious slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

The last 25% of the book was very gripping and intriguing. Unfortunately most of the book had me checking my progress and seeing if it was over yet. Im usually a sucker for a gruesome murder which this book technically delivers but, the descriptions of literally anything and everything take up most of the book. Its almost repetitive and it took a lot of self control not to skim the book. Plus the amount of times Dorothy was just like "oh yeah this happened anyways back to this food" was annoying as fuck. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Murder, Sexism, Antisemitism, Body horror, Child abuse, Cursing, Injury/Injury detail, Cancer, Cannibalism, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Gore, Infidelity, Panic attacks/disorders, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Toxic friendship, Violence, Alcohol, Car accident, Death, Eating disorder, Sexual content, Stalking, Blood, Death of parent, and Classism

ciaranolio's review

adventurous challenging funny fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

A comic horror novel written as a cannibal food critic's memoir, reminiscent in ways of American Psycho, darkly funny in places and deeply off-putting in others. Very vivid writing style and truly excellent food descriptions were a delight to me, but my reading experience was somewhat marred by the book's reputation as a feminist girlboss-type story, especially when considering the fact that the protagonist (who, don't get me wrong, is as entertaining as they come, but most certainly not a girlboss in my mind) actively commits a hate crime.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Death, Antisemitism, Blood, Car accident, Cannibalism, and Violence

Moderate: Gaslighting, Sexual harassment, Misogyny, Kidnapping, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Stalking, Sexual content, Rape, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Death of parent, Chronic illness, Classism, Body shaming, Alcohol, and Cancer

paumdza's review

boring annoying and uninteresting  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Antisemitism and Rape

calamitymeat's review

slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

1.5

I understand WHY the book was written like this but it was fucking exhausting and impossible to get through and I was sick of this book by the second week of reading it because WHY is it taking me two entire weeks to read a 250 page book

also?? killing her jewish ex in a kosher way?? fucking weird and i don't even really care if "the point is that she's a psychopath" or whatever

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cannibalism, Antisemitism, Sexual content, and Gore

Minor: Sexual assault

emmagrace012's review

dark funny reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

Honestly loved it. So enjoyable to read, if a bit grandiloquent. Really enjoyed the immersive character experience and the overall plot lines. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Cannibalism, Violence, and Animal death

Moderate: Rape, Sexual content, Gore, Toxic relationship, Mental illness, Car accident, and Blood

Minor: Cancer, Death of parent, Antisemitism, and Terminal illness

abundance_of_fiction's review

challenging dark medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

Almost a 4 stars but more like 3.5. This book was short but the pacing still felt slow due to the monologue and narration. As a serial killer/thriller fan it was entertaining to see the author weave in many of these infamous women into her story and how they related to Dorothy. Reading about this psychopathic cannibal was both grotesque but intriguing as far as a narrative goes. Dark but engaging.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Sexual content, Blood, Body horror, Murder, Gore, Violence, Mental illness, and Cannibalism

Minor: Toxic relationship, Ableism, Toxic friendship, Antisemitism, Cancer, and Fire/Fire injury