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A review by katie_the_reader
Hungerstone by Kat Dunn
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
“To be a woman is a horror I can little comprehend.”
I really don’t know how else to start apart from I LOVED THIS BOOK.
I was hooked in from literally the first page. This book is so beautifully and decadently dark it’s utterly delicious to read. From the POV of Lady Lenore Crowther, an orphaned noblewoman, we see her attempts to shape the life around her into a safe and secure tableaux of aristocratic perfection. She has a wealthy, handsome husband. She has become a leading lady in society. She now has a country estate to preside over. And yet… she hungers.
Upon meeting the mysterious Carmilla, a woman who seems to have appeared from nowhere and no one, we go on a journey with Lenore as her new acquaintance tugs at the threads of her life’s perfect tapestry and it unravels around her, revealing a sinister and heartbreakingly lonely reality behind.
This book has everything my inner feminine demon needed. It’s got a stunning Wuthering Heights-esque landscape. It’s got sexy sapphic vampires. It’s got blood and murder and poison and vengeance. It’s got the most divine and demonic feminine rage. It’s got a crumbling, spooky old house. It’s got vivid descriptions of weird Victorian dishes. It’s even got a thread of workers rights - yes, really.
Alongside all of that it is the most seen I’ve ever felt on the page as someone who has been in the deepest depths of depression and felt nothing but emptiness, heaviness, bitterness and anger. The uncomfortable things you have thought to yourself in the night and felt ashamed of in the light of day? Lenore gets it. The way she describes her jealously of people who have lived normal lives, while also berating herself for feeling that way as it isn’t their fault they haven’t suffered as she has - well I felt that with my whole heart and soul.
This is such a good book. The writing is absolutely stunning and I have a camera roll full of pics I’ve taken of lines/paragraphs I don’t want to forget because they just spoke to me in such a profound way.
Loved it. 10/10 no notes. Gimme more angry lesbian vampires RIGHT NOW.
I really don’t know how else to start apart from I LOVED THIS BOOK.
I was hooked in from literally the first page. This book is so beautifully and decadently dark it’s utterly delicious to read. From the POV of Lady Lenore Crowther, an orphaned noblewoman, we see her attempts to shape the life around her into a safe and secure tableaux of aristocratic perfection. She has a wealthy, handsome husband. She has become a leading lady in society. She now has a country estate to preside over. And yet… she hungers.
Upon meeting the mysterious Carmilla, a woman who seems to have appeared from nowhere and no one, we go on a journey with Lenore as her new acquaintance tugs at the threads of her life’s perfect tapestry and it unravels around her, revealing a sinister and heartbreakingly lonely reality behind.
This book has everything my inner feminine demon needed. It’s got a stunning Wuthering Heights-esque landscape. It’s got sexy sapphic vampires. It’s got blood and murder and poison and vengeance. It’s got the most divine and demonic feminine rage. It’s got a crumbling, spooky old house. It’s got vivid descriptions of weird Victorian dishes. It’s even got a thread of workers rights - yes, really.
Alongside all of that it is the most seen I’ve ever felt on the page as someone who has been in the deepest depths of depression and felt nothing but emptiness, heaviness, bitterness and anger. The uncomfortable things you have thought to yourself in the night and felt ashamed of in the light of day? Lenore gets it. The way she describes her jealously of people who have lived normal lives, while also berating herself for feeling that way as it isn’t their fault they haven’t suffered as she has - well I felt that with my whole heart and soul.
This is such a good book. The writing is absolutely stunning and I have a camera roll full of pics I’ve taken of lines/paragraphs I don’t want to forget because they just spoke to me in such a profound way.
Loved it. 10/10 no notes. Gimme more angry lesbian vampires RIGHT NOW.