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Feast While You Can

a 'brilliantly visceral queer horror' for fans of Julia Armfield and Eliza Clark

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Feast While You Can

By: Mikaella Clements, Onjuli Datta
Narrated by: Jaclyn Kelso
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 'A truly monstrous romance' JULIA ARMFIELD, AUTHOR OF OUR WIVES UNDER THE SEA

'An exciting new hybrid horror-romance novel' THE NEW YORK TIMES

'Lesbian pulp meets literary horror' YAEL VAN DER WOUDEN, AUTHOR OF THE SAFEKEEP

‘A heady novel of desire and despair’ – SFX Magazine

A monstrous-yet-sexy queer horror novel guaranteed to keep you up all night...

There is a monster inside of Angelina Sicco. All she wants is to walk her mongrel dog, hold court with her brother in their local dive bar, and bait hot queer women to her sleepy, conservative hometown, Cadenze. The problem is, so does the monster. It wants what Angelina has done, it wants what she’s going to do. It wants to eat her whole life, and every version of every future she might have with it.

Until it possessed her, the famous monster of Cadenze lived deep in a pit inside the mountain. But on the night when Angelina runs into her brother’s ex, the sternly handsome Jagvi, the creature rises hungry and ready to eat. Its claws comb through her private thoughts, her most intimate and traumatic memories. Only Jagvi's touch repels it, but the monster feasts on all the mess that makes up a life, and Angelina Sicco's has never looked tastier. What will Angelina do to protect her future? And just how much will it cost her?

‘Sophisticated and petrifying, it genre splices so well that it's not a splice any more. I've never read anything like it!’ TAMSYN MUIR, AUTHOR OF THE LOCKED TOMB SERIES

'A frightening and sensual exploration of possession and eroticism' ERIC LAROCCA, AUTHOR OF THINGS HAVE GOTTEN WORSE SINCE WE LAST SPOKE

'Beautiful, greedy and terrifying, this book makes an intimate home for itself right alongside your bones​' FREYA MARSKE, AUTHOR OF A MARVELLOUS LIGHT Genre Fiction Horror Literature & Fiction Romance Scary LGBTQIA+
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A beautifully written, original story that I absolutely devoured. There was very little I didn't enjoy about this book. I started reading it late one night and was so hooked that I bought the audiobook once my eyes were too tired to read. The narrator did a fantastic job, too.

The main characters feel complex and whole, often finding themselves torn between conflicting internal desires, especially around the need for belonging, and what it means to be 'home'. I related a lot to the specific way they are othered in their own hometown, and the very different tactics they employ to try and deal with it. There's so much more I could say here, but I'll do my best to keep it concise.

My favourite aspect of the story: how intensely the MCs feel about each other without ever being toxic. They each want to devour the other in some way, but it's never parasitic; they only take what is freely given. I also loved how we come to understand the depth and complexity of their relationship by slowly being drip-fed memories of the most significant moments in their shared history.

I often lose enthusiasm for a book when things get long-winded or don't serve the narrative in any significant way, so I'm glad to say that no part of book felt like it could have been trimmed, I was completely enthralled from start to finish.

A beautifully written, original story

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