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A Certain Hunger by Chelsea G. Summers

15 reviews

silentprincess's review against another edition

dark reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Rape, Cannibalism, and Murder

Minor: Racial slurs and Racism

lynxpardinus's review against another edition

dark

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Animal death, Cancer, Confinement, Gore, Sexual content, Blood, Antisemitism, Cannibalism, Death of parent, Murder, and Alcohol

Moderate: Drug use, Fatphobia, Hate crime, Homophobia, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Sexual assault, Excrement, and Vomit

Minor: Chronic illness

toofondofbooks_'s review against another edition

challenging dark funny reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

This book was beautifully written and grotesque. It was both funny and unbelievably unhinged. It made me laugh and cringe, and feel sad. It was just so good. There were some sections that were difficult for me to get through but as a whole this is such a solid piece of literature and such a good addition to the "unhinged woman" literary sub genre.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Cancer, Death, Drug use, Gun violence, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Excrement, Vomit, Cannibalism, Car accident, Murder, Alcohol, and Classism

Moderate: Fatphobia

Minor: Genocide, Pedophilia, Racism, Slavery, and Outing

owenwilsonbaby's review against another edition

challenging dark funny mysterious medium-paced

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

3.75

"I learned that being female is as prefab, thoughtless, soulless, and abjectly capitalistic as a Big Mac. It's not important that it's real. It's only important that it's tasty."

Though I struggled with the narrative voice at times, which read a little like a hardboiled detective/pulp narrator, Summers has written something really special. A Certain Hunger is undoubtedly dark, but has a lot to say both directly and indirectly about female psychopathy, the hunger of womanhood, what cannibalism can symbolise culturally and the dangers of white girlboss feminism taken too far. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual violence, Violence, Cannibalism, and Murder

Moderate: Racial slurs, Racism, and Xenophobia

lycheejelly's review against another edition

dark funny reflective 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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Cancer, Chronic illness, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Gore, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Antisemitism, Cannibalism, Religious bigotry, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, Lesbophobia, Fire/Fire injury, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Biphobia, Body shaming, Bullying, Fatphobia, Homophobia, Incest, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Medical content, Stalking, Outing, and Classism