Reviews tagging 'Cannibalism'

The Hunger by Alma Katsu

89 reviews

price245's review

dark slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated

3.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cannibalism, Homophobia, Racism, Rape, and Incest

randeerebecca's review

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Abandonment, Child death, Cannibalism, Death, Animal death, Gore, Sexual assault, and Murder

nnelsonaut's review

dark tense medium-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

5.0

Not for the faint of heart, but a fascinating and imaginative retelling of the Donner Party. If you know that history, you'll *technically* know how it ends, but the way Katsu gets there, her answer to "how?" is quite compelling and twisty. And suitably horrific. She's a marvellous writer. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cannibalism, Gore, Pedophilia, Racism, Death, and Animal death

thor's review against another edition

dark tense

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

2.5

not super familiar with the true story of the donner party (and decided to save learning the facts until i finished this book) so can't speak to the historical accuracy and i'm not sure if the repeated

incest

was fact or fiction. if fiction, then it was unnecessary and a bit weird to include. 

this book was fine, a decent read. i found it very readable, i was invested in some of the characters' stories, but the ending of the book really let me down, i felt that it could've spent longer in that last section as things broke down completely and they were trapped in the snow and committing

cannibalism

and we never found out what happened to some characters!!! why did we follow mary graves and edwin bryant only to never find out what happened to them? i appreciate the emotional ending, but what happened to keseberg? if these characters died or something i would be happy to know that, it's just very unsatisfying to have followed them throughout the story but not find out whether they survived in the end. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cannibalism, Incest, and Rape

k3nzi3's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.75

Loved the historical aspects in this story. I thought that it was really good and the intensity builds really nicely.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cannibalism, Death, Murder, Violence, Racism, Child death, Sexual harassment, and Bullying

Moderate: Child abuse

thegayestghost's review

dark tense medium-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity, Child death, Death, Animal death, Adult/minor relationship, Rape, Homophobia, Alcoholism, Racism, Bullying, Blood, Hate crime, Gore, Incest, Murder, Grief, Pedophilia, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Alcohol, Alcoholism, and Cannibalism

phantomgecko's review

challenging dark sad medium-paced

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

4.0

Gruesome twist on a true story. I'm not overly acquainted with the true story, so I don't feel like I was able to appreciate this book as much as perhaps I could have.

Adding a wendigo vibe to a tale of cannibalism isn't exactly groundbreaking, but it was still interesting. I don't feel like all the questions were answered sufficiently. Specifically I feel the part of the story with Edwin Bryant felt unfinished. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abandonment, Terminal illness, Blood, Cannibalism, Gore, Pandemic/Epidemic, Sexual assault, Suicide, Child death, and Death

aamorgan's review

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

4.0

I liked it, but it was a very slow burn.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cannibalism

Moderate: Incest

honeywolf's review

challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.5

Well written but, through no fault of the book's, I realized I just don't want to read about pilgrims. 
Went about as well as I thought it would. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Cannibalism, Rape, Body horror, Murder, and Pregnancy

pikapoot's review

dark tense

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cannibalism and Murder

Moderate: Homophobia