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A review by ariizolas
A Certain Hunger by Chelsea G. Summers
1.0
i was honestly willing to buy the overblown prose and the constant sex references. i figured that dorothy is supposed to be unlikeable anyway. but this book gets *incredibly* racist towards the end, and i'm not sure why almost nobody else has mentioned it. dorothy brutally murders a jewish man and makes it look like a hate crime, and later on, makes various anti-Black remarks about minor characters. i'm extremely hesitant to call it an artistic choice on the author's part.
even putting that aside, this isnt the girlboss female rage female friendship book that the reviews make it seem like. emma, dorothy's supposed bff, is barely present for a majority of the book. she's in maybe five chapters max - one of them describing how dorothy terrorized her to the point of trauma, one in which they reunite, and the ones in which dorothy attacks her with a meat cleaver. i would buy emma's whole unending devotion thing if there were more of a build up of friendship between her and dorothy, but there's simply not enough. not nearly enough for the author to go "yeah, dorothy told emma everything, but emma's never gonna tell cuz i said they're soulmates."
quite literally, most of this book is lavish descriptions of sex and food and vague gestures at some kind of theme surrounding women, love and devotion. which is a shame, because "cannibal milf eats men for pleasure" was truly a great pitch.
even putting that aside, this isnt the girlboss female rage female friendship book that the reviews make it seem like. emma, dorothy's supposed bff, is barely present for a majority of the book. she's in maybe five chapters max - one of them describing how dorothy terrorized her to the point of trauma, one in which they reunite, and the ones in which dorothy attacks her with a meat cleaver. i would buy emma's whole unending devotion thing if there were more of a build up of friendship between her and dorothy, but there's simply not enough. not nearly enough for the author to go "yeah, dorothy told emma everything, but emma's never gonna tell cuz i said they're soulmates."
quite literally, most of this book is lavish descriptions of sex and food and vague gestures at some kind of theme surrounding women, love and devotion. which is a shame, because "cannibal milf eats men for pleasure" was truly a great pitch.