sleepydahlias 's review for:

This Vicious Hunger by Francesca May

3.5

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Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for this ARC. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

Another Gothic lesbian fantasy that fell flat to me. I think the prose is absolutely stunning and heart wrenching, and a bit disgusting /pos, but prose doesn’t matter if you’re not actually telling a story with it. Thora and Olea are not compelling characters. The world that they exist in is surface level at best. I think there was so much more potential to explore the rituals and traditions, the school and Thora‘s academics, even the characters existed to fill some sort of archetype instead of being developed. The plot and conversations were overly repetitive to the point that I had to check that there wasn’t an issue with my copy of the book and it felt like there really wasn’t a conclusion to the story. It just ended with no buildup or any sort of feeling of this is the end very disappointing