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A Certain Hunger

By: Chelsea G. Summers
Narrated by: Hillary Huber
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Publisher's summary

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.
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A man-eating journey of self-discovery
"Based on the promotional pitch for this new Audible Original—"Eat Pray Love meets American Psycho"—A Certain Hunger could have been written just for me. But so loud was the collective gasp in the room when the project was announced, it’s clear a lot of us were hungry for the story of a female cannibal on a self-actualizing voyage of homicidal hedonism. Chelsea G. Summers’s debut novel follows food writer Dorothy Daniels—the epicurean lovechild of Elizabeth Báthory and the vampire Lestat, if they were fluent in New York media and wrote Nabokovian prose—on a lascivious romp from the cocktail bars of Manhattan to the truffle-hiding hills of Italy. Somewhere along the way, she’s landed herself in prison; perhaps it has to do with her (literal) taste in men? Provocative and very funny, A Certain Hunger is narrated by veteran performer Hillary Huber—just the right icing for this bloody, decadent cake."
Kat J., Audible Editor

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The perfect brain candy book

A Certain Hunger was the literary equivalent to a car wreck on the side of the highway: you know it's grisly stuff, but you can't pry yourself away from it. Dorothy Daniels is deliciously heinous: like Dostoevsky's Raskolnikov but without the fevered conscience, like Camus's Meursault but with a taste for more victims than a couple of Arabs, like Süskind's Grenouille but leading a life of decadence, instead of seeking the innocence not-yet-lost. At times, you will be repulsed and yet, sympathize with the protagonist.
This book is well-written and well-narrated, made you see, feel, understand, and taste the innermost emotions and thoughts of a psychopath. The very implausibility of it makes it a compelling read and takes one into a world where the sense of taste overrides any moral code. I'd say it must be one of the weirdest books I have ever read, but I enjoyed it immensely.

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Exquisite as a bomb

Chelsea Summers wields language like an exquisite and devastating instrument. I binge listened -- not just for the sex and bloody murder for the dead honest portrait of female friendship

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A delicious tale ... not for the faint of heart

This is NOT your average story. It's a salacious tale of murder, excess, female friendships, cannibalism, GenX America, sex, and the world of food writing. The story is tight and perfectly hooked to keep you listening for more. The prose is luxurious with details, and even print media gets treated with orgasmic delight.

If you're into sex, food, revenge, and the kind of writing that'll get you drooling, this is for you. But beware, there's murder. Lots of very cheerfully written murder. You won't look at food the same way again.

The narrator navigates it all with aplomb and superb Italian pronunciation.

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Amazing

Great book! It just kept getting better every chapter. i never thought Emna would rat on her.

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I didn't expect to LOVE this as much as I do!

The main character is so charismatic that I couldn't help but care about her! I mean she is a horrible person! but so funny and so authentic and raw... a really fun ride. I'll be reading this again =D

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Her performance was amazing

Het performance had me ons the edge of my seat. The story had me captive since the second sentence

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wow!!!

this book knocked my socks off! I'm going to go see if the author has any more books RIGHT NOW!
*not for the faint of heat. plenty of blood and guts and sex.

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The prose is crazy

This book is absolutely oozing with vivid descriptions of food, sex and murder. At first, I didn’t care for the main character but she really grew on me over time. The performance was FANTASTIC as well!

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Very well written

the only thing that I did not like about this book was the narrator. while I'm sure it was a purposeful decision given the character, the narrator giving a throaty pretentiousness to every full back of the throat "r" sound (apologies for the terrible description) was almost insufferable. fantastic story though

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Delicious

Hilarious, dark, sexy, brilliant, joyful, amazing. Also the obvious relish of the voice actor was a huge bonus--so much more fun.

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