hannendez 's review for:

This Vicious Hunger by Francesca May

2.5

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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I wanted to like this, I really did. I liked May’s first book, and I am very into queer women behaving badly while they fall in love, plus what a good premise! Super slow to get started. The tone and pacing were just SO off, and the dialogue needed a ton of editing. The prose was gorgeous and creepy enough at points that I’d almost get sucked in, and then someone would open their mouth and ruin it. I found Thora insufferable as a character, and not interesting enough to make up for how annoying she was. This book could have been great, it just needed a lot more editing and revision to get there, IMO.