Reviews tagging 'Animal death'

A Certain Hunger by Chelsea G. Summers

121 reviews

okeyelke's review against another edition

challenging funny mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death and Cannibalism

Moderate: Torture and Car accident

abigail_spencer's review against another edition

dark funny informative fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Somehow incredibly compelling and brilliantly written with sharp wit as well as insightful reflections, all this despite being almost entirely unrelatable. It's little gory at times, but very selfaware about that (the narrator literally calls you out for skimming over parts exactly at a moment i was going to do just that). Marks a clear distinction between the narrators psychopathic lack of remorse and the anthropological nuances/stigma around anthropophagy. I likewise enjoyed the literary references peppered through, they didnt seem forced but rather a side effect of the author's PhD in eighteenth century literature.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Blood, and Murder

Moderate: Animal death, Sexual content, and Cannibalism

ingridreadss's review against another edition

adventurous dark informative tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

i had so many thoughts while reading this, and now i have none. this is a freaking work of art, as messed up as it may be. i must admit i skimmed the overly-descriptive meals, but the rest i. ate. up. like a woman starved

dorothy, you psycho, “maneater” is your song

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Cursing, Death, Gore, Sexual content, Forced institutionalization, Cannibalism, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Rape, Sexual assault, Stalking, Car accident, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Cancer, Terminal illness, Antisemitism, and Death of parent

svnn's review against another edition

challenging dark medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

Carrie Bradshaw + Anthony Bourdain + Hannibal =

The first 100 pages or so felt like quite a slog to get through, but I’m glad that I did as the rest of the book was pretty good. There just felt like so much filler throughout the book that really bogged it down for me and felt quite vapid, overly detailed, and ultimately unimportant to the plot. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Rape, and Murder

spbaer's review against another edition

dark medium-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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Death, Rape, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Cannibalism, and Murder

culpeppper's review against another edition

dark slow-paced

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

1.75

To sum it up in one word, this book was excessive. 

Loved the

cannibalism and symbolism related to partaking in the act of it

but the rest was boring or felt slightly offensive.

Wasserman, the female black cop, was treated so weirdly. The author was fixed on her Blackness, and described her hair constantly and weirdly. Also compared her to a horse multiple time so?????

Dorothy tells the narrative in a weird, jumpy way I got used to, but it took away any thrill or surprise because she would just tell you whatever she was going to do in a summary, then go onto explain it in more tedious prose. Maybe true crime readers who like a #girlboss story will like it, but the story fell flat after about 8 chapters for me, and a lot of the "profound" shit was underwhelming but so tedious to read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Death, Drug use, Gore, Infidelity, Mental illness, Rape, Blood, Cannibalism, Stalking, Car accident, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Ableism, Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Misogyny, Violence, Excrement, and Antisemitism

Minor: Body shaming, Fatphobia, Racism, Vomit, and Classism

paulinia's review against another edition

dark funny slow-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Gore, Sexual assault, Violence, Cannibalism, and Murder

grrrcait's review against another edition

dark medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Gore, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Cannibalism, and Murder

reddeddy's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious reflective tense slow-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Death, Gore, Mental illness, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Cannibalism, Stalking, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Toxic friendship, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

casualvamp's review against another edition

challenging dark slow-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

2.0

For a book about cannibalism, it turned out to be surprisingly uneventful. Not at all what I was expecting from this book, I must say I'm disappointed. The pacing is increeeeedibly slow, making it a tedious read. The main character is insufferable; while I understand we are meant to dislike her because she's a murderer, her annoying personality made me almost give up on the book. Also, the way Dorothy describes sex made me want to vomit.

"As I tasted the bleach-and-umami flavor of his precum" —girl, what?

It felt more like reading a pretentious early '90s food magazine than a novel about a literal psychopath.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Gore, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Blood, Cannibalism, Murder, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail