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greylandreviews's review against another edition
4.0
3.75 stars
Read for Dragons and Tea Book Club
I enjoyed so many of the stories in this book. Personal favorites were: Sugar and Spite, The Slender One, This Missing Ingredient, Bloom, and Panaderia~Pasteleria.
Trigger Warnings: loss of loved ones, gang violence, poisoning, racism, underage drinking, and car accident
Read for Dragons and Tea Book Club
I enjoyed so many of the stories in this book. Personal favorites were: Sugar and Spite, The Slender One, This Missing Ingredient, Bloom, and Panaderia~Pasteleria.
Trigger Warnings: loss of loved ones, gang violence, poisoning, racism, underage drinking, and car accident
lenahe's review against another edition
emotional
lighthearted
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
3.5
The short stories are very diverse, some have fantasy elements, some are pure contemporary YA. Some are more hopeful, others have a darker side. Overall, I enjoyed the balance.
The stories are all connected in their setting, with mentions of the other stories here and there, which made the whole book more interesting than just reading the stories on their own (but you could easily to it too).
The stories are all connected in their setting, with mentions of the other stories here and there, which made the whole book more interesting than just reading the stories on their own (but you could easily to it too).
puffy_'s review against another edition
3.0
The first story was great, but the others were more or less so-so. I read this hoping that the stories would give me the same feeling the first one did, but that did t really happen.
eramhussain's review against another edition
4.0
"I've always found putting food on top of my feelings is a much more pleasant way to deal with any kind of crisis than actually, you know, dealing with the crisis."
I liked all the stories, and I love how they’re interconnected and how the same characters and places kept popping up. Each story is unique and yet fits together with the others.
Hungry Hearts explores themes of family, friendship, love in all its forms, growing up, grief, anxiety, sexuality, learning how to move on from mistakes, and more.It is nice how all these feelings can be connected with food.
"Music was like water in the way it drowns out things you don't want to deal with or things that are hard."
I liked all the stories, and I love how they’re interconnected and how the same characters and places kept popping up. Each story is unique and yet fits together with the others.
Hungry Hearts explores themes of family, friendship, love in all its forms, growing up, grief, anxiety, sexuality, learning how to move on from mistakes, and more.It is nice how all these feelings can be connected with food.
"Music was like water in the way it drowns out things you don't want to deal with or things that are hard."
izzatiidrus's review against another edition
lighthearted
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
As usual, a compilation of short stories, particularly written by different authors, is a mixed bag of good and not-so-good stories. This one is truly a mixed bag because I've rated most of them either 1 - 2 stars or 5 stars.
My 5 star reads are:
Rain by Sangu Mandanna
The Slender One by Caroline Tung Richmond ❤️
The Missing Ingredient by Rebecca Roanhorse
Bloom by Phoebe North ❤️
A Bountiful Film by S.K. Ali ❤️
With the ones marked ❤️ being my top 3 favourites.
Overall, I love the idea of the stories being interconnected and that they take place in a place called Hungry Hearts Row where all sorts of cuisines from almost every culture are available. I was pleasantly surprised by the number of stories talking about grief and a few that took me to the fantasy realm. Not to mention the ones that dared to go where you wouldn't think short stories would go to.
That being said though, despite featuring many cultures, I feel like the stories still mostly highlighted Chinese cuisine and pork-based food. It's lacking European, African and Middle Eastern food. I also did not expect for there to be too much romance, which I should have expected considering the title of the book.
Still, I'd recommend this book for food lovers who enjoy reading YA stories that feature different cultures.
My 5 star reads are:
Rain by Sangu Mandanna
The Slender One by Caroline Tung Richmond ❤️
The Missing Ingredient by Rebecca Roanhorse
Bloom by Phoebe North ❤️
A Bountiful Film by S.K. Ali ❤️
With the ones marked ❤️ being my top 3 favourites.
Overall, I love the idea of the stories being interconnected and that they take place in a place called Hungry Hearts Row where all sorts of cuisines from almost every culture are available. I was pleasantly surprised by the number of stories talking about grief and a few that took me to the fantasy realm. Not to mention the ones that dared to go where you wouldn't think short stories would go to.
That being said though, despite featuring many cultures, I feel like the stories still mostly highlighted Chinese cuisine and pork-based food. It's lacking European, African and Middle Eastern food. I also did not expect for there to be too much romance, which I should have expected considering the title of the book.
Still, I'd recommend this book for food lovers who enjoy reading YA stories that feature different cultures.
bookworm29's review against another edition
5.0
I really enjoyed how this short story collection was formatted to entwine and progress through the different stories! It was a lovely meal, with different flavors and perspectives from the authors, but brought harmoniously and complementarily together (yes I am making a cheesy metaphor based on the whole food thing but can you really blame me for it? 'complementarily' on the other hand probably does deserve some censure)