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A Certain Hunger

By: Chelsea G. Summers
Narrated by: Hillary Huber
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Eat Pray Love meets American Psycho in a seductive and sinister debut literary thriller.

Food critic Dorothy Daniels indulges in her homicidal urges by murdering her lovers and devouring their organs in this intense, visceral, and lushly told tale of food, sex, power, and the pursuit of a very particular taste set between New York and Italy.

Please Note: A Certain Hunger contains adult language and depictions of violence. Discretion is advised.

©2019 Chelsea G. Summers (P)2019 Audible Originals, LLC. Crime Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Fiction Crime Scary
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If you love a book with an unhinged woman you will definitely love this. It’s beyond dark and for ADULTS. Enter at your own peril. Basic instinct with food

definitely not for kids

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Narrator was abit annoying but you can't please everyone. I did struggle to finish the audio because of this.

Boring

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I found the story fun and different, and did enjoy it, but the way the performer did the italian accent and exaggerated words was so cringe inducing it took a big chunk out of the enjoyment.

Fun story with cringy performance

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Originally picked up the hardback for its cover! Reading the blurb I was quite unsure. Originally listened to it as a thriller and tone and writing felt very silly and over the top in every way.
But, once I got into it as dark comedy/satire about the food world it’s a lot of fun and a good listen.

Over the top Food critique Satire!

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Very sad to have finished ACH this morning, beautifully read (and I am an Italian speaker, always ready to flinch at a badly pronounced word) in Huber's arch drawl. Dorothy Daniels is a wry, compelling Humbert Humbert (without the pedofilia) of a narrator, impossible to dislike as she regales us with her story of food, murder and cannibalism. The novel succeeds in the gargantuan task of combining in depth knowledge of the history of food and drink, informed critique of the US food chain, social commentary, criminal minds, butchery, etymology, architectural history and spicy erotic writing in a wonderful, fast-paced and light-handed novel, never lapsing into the stentorian or tedious. The writing is poetic, particularly about the joys of food and eating, and the prose is caressing and lush. Loved this, standing ovation from my kitchen in Tuscany where I will be experimenting with fennel and legumes this afternoon (not some of the other recipes though...).

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