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This Vicious Hunger
by Francesca May
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This was an interesting book. The writing is lovely and I devoured (no pun intended) half of it in two days as I was desperate to know what was going on. It’s deliberately paced in a way that to me didn’t feel boring, just doling out information at a pace that kept me so intrigued I didn’t wanna put it down.
I found the last 100 pages or so to be a touch repetitive, in terms of the characters’ arguments though. It feels like it’s setting up for a sequel that I will gladly read but if that’s the case I think it should’ve ended sooner than it did. I can’t say “nothing happened” because that’s not it at all, lots of important things do happen, but where it concludes feels like strange placement to me, where ending it sooner I feel could’ve told a more complete story, and those repetitive last 100 pages could’ve better served as an opening to a second book.
Like I said, I did like it and I loved trying to figure out what was going on and what would happen next, and the ending doesn’t completely ruin that or take away from it, I just feel it stumbled a smidge at the end when it didn’t have to! That said, I will read a sequel if there is one because I want to see this wrap up solidly!
This was an interesting book. The writing is lovely and I devoured (no pun intended) half of it in two days as I was desperate to know what was going on. It’s deliberately paced in a way that to me didn’t feel boring, just doling out information at a pace that kept me so intrigued I didn’t wanna put it down.
I found the last 100 pages or so to be a touch repetitive, in terms of the characters’ arguments though. It feels like it’s setting up for a sequel that I will gladly read but if that’s the case I think it should’ve ended sooner than it did. I can’t say “nothing happened” because that’s not it at all, lots of important things do happen, but where it concludes feels like strange placement to me, where ending it sooner I feel could’ve told a more complete story, and those repetitive last 100 pages could’ve better served as an opening to a second book.
Like I said, I did like it and I loved trying to figure out what was going on and what would happen next, and the ending doesn’t completely ruin that or take away from it, I just feel it stumbled a smidge at the end when it didn’t have to! That said, I will read a sequel if there is one because I want to see this wrap up solidly!