A review by rose_peterson
Hungry Hearts: 13 Tales of Food & Love by Elsie Chapman

3.0

I probably wouldn't have picked this up if not for a YA book club I'm in...and that would've been okay. I like the general premise of short stories sharing a common setting and overlapping a bit in characters and events, and I liked how these stories reflected a wide range of realities. (When have you ever read a YA story about a teen from Montenegro?) I thought the strip's name, "Hungry Hearts," was corny, though, and some of the magic felt like it was included to fit the theme, not in service of the story itself. Some also just weren't quite tight enough; they needed better editing. Good representation but not the best food writing as I'd hoped.