A review by maketeaa
A Certain Hunger by Chelsea G. Summers

fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

honestly? a try-hard feminist horror novel that comes off as edgy rather than, well. the critical exploration of gender and society that the blurbs make it out to be. dorothy is, through and through, an incredibly unlikeable character, an unreliable narrator to the extremes, a psychopath that acknowledges, from the beginning, that she is a psychopath. she is hedonistic, but for the power rather than the pleasure, the thrill that she can have what she wants if she so wishes. from her relationship with sex, with her career, with food, and, later on, the harvesting of her lovers' comestibles, dorothy's core motivations rest on a steadfast belief on the intrinsic relationship between men and women, and how she ensure the shifting of the power on the balance to herself. 

but god, while the writing style is graphic and descriptive and has some gorgeous moments, it gets tired very easily. maybe the aggravating voice is on purpose. but i feel like a literary technique like that shouldn't have you searching the text for the words 'fuck' and 'pussy' and 'pudenda' to see how much of this cesspit of genital descriptions you're going to have to sit through to get to the end.