Reviews tagging 'Car accident'

A Certain Hunger by Chelsea G. Summers

81 reviews

rgrgrg's review against another edition

dark funny mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Cannibalism, Car accident, Kidnapping, Murder, Alcohol, Gore, Violence, Body horror, and Death

elizajstocks's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective medium-paced

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

5.0

If you love true crime, food, sex, and feminism? Read it right now. Then go watch The Menu. Similar vibes. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Grief, Cannibalism, Car accident, Fire/Fire injury, Violence, Death, Cursing, Forced institutionalization, Toxic relationship, Gaslighting, Gore, Infidelity, Murder, Body horror, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, and Sexual violence

cjcrawfish's review against another edition

challenging dark funny medium-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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Car accident, Blood, Body horror, Cannibalism, Death, Violence, Sexual content, and Toxic relationship

emiliareads's review against another edition

dark tense medium-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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexism, and Cannibalism

Moderate: Car accident

nicoleanthony's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Murder, Death, Car accident, Alcohol, Medical content, Violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Blood, Body horror, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Sexual assault, and Physical abuse

sassylk's review against another edition

dark funny mysterious reflective fast-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? Yes

4.25

I really enjoyed this! Fast-paced, elegant writing and a really unique story. I thought the characterisation was great - Dorothy is so nuanced, you feel bad for her at points, even if she’s telling you the story of a series of gruesome murders. I believe you can never have enough metaphor/simile, and G. Summers clearly backs me up on this point - the prose is so juicy and fulfilling, I couldn’t stop reading. At times I felt there were sections that repeated themselves and were a bit too indulgent (i.e, slightly just there to add some fun metaphor but not anymore meat to the story), and these could do with some editing down, but I thought this was a wonderful debut novel, and I would definitely read more of G. Summers’ work!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Car accident, Cannibalism, Murder, and Death

lqne's review against another edition

slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Antisemitism, Confinement, Death of parent, Murder, Terminal illness, Violence, Alcohol, Animal cruelty, Death, Infidelity, Rape, Cancer, Cannibalism, Car accident, Sexual assault, Stalking, and Sexism

isaospina's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

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

3.75

Everyone says "I support women's rights but more importantly women's wrongs". 

I mean, do I want to be a chic, read head, food critic traveling from NYC to Italy on a whim?
Yes.
Do I glorify killing men for the most stupid reasons?
No .

That being said, this is more of 3.90, almost a 4 for me.

I enjoyed deeply reading Dorothy's story, I'm into this dark, twisty, a bit gorey books, so that was no big deal for me. The story moves at a very decent pace, I enjoyed the pop culture references, the food analogies and the killings, almost as much as Dorothy's decent into paranoia.

At some points I felt that the story was dragging a bit , or that it left plot holes, but I'm willing to be forgiving.

This would have been an amazing read before Tender is the flesh.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Cannibalism, Rape, and Car accident

sorryviolet's review against another edition

dark emotional funny tense 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Cursing, Gore, Rape, Violence, Blood, Body horror, Sexual content, Cannibalism, and Death

dylweed's review against another edition

challenging dark tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Gore, Death, Confinement, Cannibalism, Blood, Murder, Toxic friendship, Sexual violence, Mental illness, Animal death, Car accident, and Body horror