#convenience store woman :3 I've qanted to read it for a while

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O.K. I finished listening to A Certain Hunger by Chelsea G. Summers and I am veery strangely going to say that I? liked it? a lot more than I thought I would, at least.

It goes like this:

1. hear about the book

2. listen to the book

3. "this is so bad. but slightly entertaining."

4. "this is still bad. but VERY entertaining."

5. le finish

I actually really liked it LAWL cause it was a WRECK all the way thru it just took some time for me to resign myself to it like fuck it. I have no reason not to listen to this. & the narrator's voice does help cause it's fun to listen to...

BUT the NUMBER ONE THING I HATED about this book was the way it was written sometimes. I don't have the like, written version at hand, but it would compare things / enumerate things VERY often & it got annoying REAL fast. I got over it though because that's my #1 power (overlooking things), so I didn't really care by the end.

+ ANOTHER thing I hated about it was this one moment where the MC is thinking back on the time she was raped and she's like "I was getting raped. Fascinating." like yeah it's stated like a BAJILLION times in the book that she's, like, a psychopath or whatever but it felt unnecessary, like it (the entire stalker-then-rapist) subplot was there to show how I don't even know, emotionless? uncaring? she was. It felt pointless as an "anecdote" because IIRC it doesn't really DO anything for the plot. She doesn't even kill the guy! Not saying she would because it's like a Thing that she only kills and eats men she is attracted to / has had a relationship with, but that's the point of what I'm saying: she tells us about being stalked and raped, she says it's "fascinating", she doesn't ever see the guy OR mention him again. It's probably half because it's upsetting to me but also half because it really WAS pointless.

My favorite part was her friendship with Emma tho that was very good 👍 & the end when she doesn't marry the guy because she sees herself being "good" and doesn't like what she sees, is a much better show of character than getting raped and going "wow". Sorry I'm hung up on that LOL it was just confusing.

n e ways I liked it v v v entertaining, Idk how many stars perhaps 3.5 🌟. Dante's review CONCLUDED