A review by earthier
House of Hunger by Alexis Henderson

3.0

3.5. I don’t know how to feel about it. This book was all head games no vampires, just the depraved & decadent. The exposition up to the meat of the plot seemed drawn out to fluff pages because nowhere else in the book does Marion dote/romanticize scenery so heavily. Although the book isn’t marketed as a mystery it contains several & leaves a major one - what are the people who depend on consuming blood to exist- unsolved. They don’t use the word vampire once so… a bit catfish. Foreshadowing carried this book to a disorienting extent but it was the only thing that keep me reading when the story slowed. None of the characters were particularly likable but then again we didn’t really get to know-know them because the energy is so foreboding. It also gave me cruel intentions/dangerous liaisons-Les Liaisons dangereuses in a way too.