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A review by discendos
A Certain Hunger by Chelsea G. Summers
1.0
Gaslight, Girlboss, Gormandize.
I wanted to love this it has everything I could ask for in a summary. However upon opening this book I realised that Chelsea was relying solely on making her character so over the top in everything she said and did instead of providing any actual character development.
The book definitely leans into its satirical nature but not in a way that invites the reader to enjoy or understand Dorothy’s actual motives for what she does. It feels like we’re too dependent on her being a Narcissist rather than any insight.
Most of the time Dorothy’s memories are about as interesting as her food reviews. If she’s not using over the top descriptions to sound cool, she’s using a racial slur to describe a man’s penis.
Yeah Chelsea I had to look that one up, did you feel cool adding it to your book? Was it edgy to use a term that describes black people as being stingy? Did your white liberal arts degree culminate in that moment to feel like you wrote the best little sentence?
This book ultimately falls under white woman feminism and has been falsely advertised as cannibalism as a metaphor for love. This character doesn’t have a heart, and not even in a way that’s interesting. She was completely boring, or insufferable. The worst girl you went to college with, thinks she’s Hannibal Lector. It had so much potential.
I wanted to love this it has everything I could ask for in a summary. However upon opening this book I realised that Chelsea was relying solely on making her character so over the top in everything she said and did instead of providing any actual character development.
The book definitely leans into its satirical nature but not in a way that invites the reader to enjoy or understand Dorothy’s actual motives for what she does. It feels like we’re too dependent on her being a Narcissist rather than any insight.
Most of the time Dorothy’s memories are about as interesting as her food reviews. If she’s not using over the top descriptions to sound cool, she’s using a racial slur to describe a man’s penis.
Yeah Chelsea I had to look that one up, did you feel cool adding it to your book? Was it edgy to use a term that describes black people as being stingy? Did your white liberal arts degree culminate in that moment to feel like you wrote the best little sentence?
This book ultimately falls under white woman feminism and has been falsely advertised as cannibalism as a metaphor for love. This character doesn’t have a heart, and not even in a way that’s interesting. She was completely boring, or insufferable. The worst girl you went to college with, thinks she’s Hannibal Lector. It had so much potential.