A review by steaksmum
A Certain Hunger by Chelsea G. Summers

dark slow-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

1.75

I wanted to like this book. I was sooooo close to DNFing at the halfway mark because tolerating the incessant narcissism of Dorothy was too much. You’re telling me that someone who criticizes for a living can’t offer ANY critical rationale for why they do anything they do? The second half of the book was considerably better - I didn’t have to read the word ‘pudendum’ again and again. Overall this character and book felt to me like a late boomer/early Gen X white woman’s idea of female empowerment - that being violent like a man, eating like a man, having sex like a man, being obsessed with men - is real liberation. I’m not sold. It feels needy, pick me, and frankly, just fucking boring, which is difficult to imagine about a book about a cannibalistic serial killer.