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A review by brucemri
Everything That's Underneath by Kristi DeMeester
5.0
Most of these stories are about teenage girls, and most are about escalating pressures on the protagonists to surrender to forces that want to use them as mere extensions of another's will. They lead in different directions, because dark pressure can mean a lot of different things depending on who's pushing and who's being pushed.
The thing that really stood out to me about this collection is how astonishingly _specific_ DeMeester is when it comes to hunger. Physical hunger, that is, as a thing in itself as well as the channel through which pressure and power may flow. Hunger can mean a lot of different things, too, from the light urge to snack to the satisfaction of a meal with just the right amount of things you love to the frenzied craving for something, anything, to sate an all-encompassing emptiness. I think this is the best, most thorough use of hunger I've ever seen in one set of covers, the clarity and distinctiveness of the physical desire to eat enhancing the horror of psychological and supernatural presences.
I'm really glad Gwendolyn Kiste recommended this book, and look forward to reading more by DeMeester.
The thing that really stood out to me about this collection is how astonishingly _specific_ DeMeester is when it comes to hunger. Physical hunger, that is, as a thing in itself as well as the channel through which pressure and power may flow. Hunger can mean a lot of different things, too, from the light urge to snack to the satisfaction of a meal with just the right amount of things you love to the frenzied craving for something, anything, to sate an all-encompassing emptiness. I think this is the best, most thorough use of hunger I've ever seen in one set of covers, the clarity and distinctiveness of the physical desire to eat enhancing the horror of psychological and supernatural presences.
I'm really glad Gwendolyn Kiste recommended this book, and look forward to reading more by DeMeester.