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A review by elodie2711
Hunger: The Complete Trilogy by Jeremy Robinson
5.0
I had such a good time with the Hunger trilogy. It had been quite a while since I had read anything by Jeremy Robinson, which is a shame because his books are so good.
These three books - Hunger, Feast and Famine, all bundled into one big Kindle book, didn’t disappoint, far from it. It was so action-packed, filled with apocalyptic monsters, gore, heroes and villains, breathtaking suspens, humor… I couldn’t stop reading, pinned to my chair, so engrossed in the story that I sometimes didn’t even pay attention to my poor husband talking to me.
The whole story is so imaginative, so well-crafted, it’s a 900-page book of awesomeness. It’s difficult not to be captivated and absorbed by a book depicting the apocalypse brought about by something that should have saved it (of course there’s more to it but I’d spoil the books) ! The characters fleshed out by J. Robinson were so likeable - or truly hateful , so believable in their actions and emotions that you just can’t NOT root for the heroes and hope the villains get what they deserve haha. What I particularly liked was the depth of these characters ; the heroes have flaws and aren’t just clichés; the villains sometimes are not all lost to villainy.
I think my favorite character was Feesa/Val. Without spoiling anything, I’ll just say that her journey from what she was to what she became at the end was the most fascinating part of the story for me.
I was glad to be reunited with Jeremy Robinson’s writing style. Not overbearing with details, leaving the reader’s imagination fill in the gaps. There’s one passage that I underlined in my Kindle that I found so beautiful, almost poetic, the way that the author just takes the reader by the hand and say “hey look, this is what I mean, let me show you”:
“She remembered them the way that steam wisped above a boiling pot, clear for a moment and then dispersed into the air. She could feel its lingering humidity but could no longer see it or experience it directly.”
These three books - Hunger, Feast and Famine, all bundled into one big Kindle book, didn’t disappoint, far from it. It was so action-packed, filled with apocalyptic monsters, gore, heroes and villains, breathtaking suspens, humor… I couldn’t stop reading, pinned to my chair, so engrossed in the story that I sometimes didn’t even pay attention to my poor husband talking to me.
The whole story is so imaginative, so well-crafted, it’s a 900-page book of awesomeness. It’s difficult not to be captivated and absorbed by a book depicting the apocalypse brought about by something that should have saved it (of course there’s more to it but I’d spoil the books) ! The characters fleshed out by J. Robinson were so likeable - or truly hateful , so believable in their actions and emotions that you just can’t NOT root for the heroes and hope the villains get what they deserve haha. What I particularly liked was the depth of these characters ; the heroes have flaws and aren’t just clichés; the villains sometimes are not all lost to villainy.
I think my favorite character was Feesa/Val. Without spoiling anything, I’ll just say that her journey from what she was to what she became at the end was the most fascinating part of the story for me.
I was glad to be reunited with Jeremy Robinson’s writing style. Not overbearing with details, leaving the reader’s imagination fill in the gaps. There’s one passage that I underlined in my Kindle that I found so beautiful, almost poetic, the way that the author just takes the reader by the hand and say “hey look, this is what I mean, let me show you”:
“She remembered them the way that steam wisped above a boiling pot, clear for a moment and then dispersed into the air. She could feel its lingering humidity but could no longer see it or experience it directly.”