Lori
I was looking forward to a tale of cannibalism, but this was not it. The cannibalising is a mostly fade to black type of situation. The biting critique of the weight loss industry had no teeth.
The description of this book mentions that it’s a little like the book Thinner. It is not. Thinner had an unlikeable main character that you still manage to sympathize with, and the author creates ramping tension right to the glorious end. This book however lacks that same tension and while I wanted to sympathize with the main character, I found my self disliking him instead. I understand struggling with weight and self esteem as many people do and the author should have had an easy time working with this. Instead, the main character does some incredibly stupid things while being an ass to others.
The best part of the book is sadly the childhood trauma flashbacks. I know it sounds awful, but these scenes were the most compelling parts. They are full of emotion and spotlight comments people make to shame you for eating and how they act like it’s so easy to hold back and eat less. What I didn’t like was the tie in at the end of the book. I wont spoil it for you but its just plain stupid.
One last thing was that I did listen to this book and the narrator was good but having to listen to them speak out all the different emojis was a little painful and there were a lot of emojis in this book.
I was looking forward to a tale of cannibalism, but this was not it. The cannibalising is a mostly fade to black type of situation. The biting critique of the weight loss industry had no teeth.
The description of this book mentions that it’s a little like the book Thinner. It is not. Thinner had an unlikeable main character that you still manage to sympathize with, and the author creates ramping tension right to the glorious end. This book however lacks that same tension and while I wanted to sympathize with the main character, I found my self disliking him instead. I understand struggling with weight and self esteem as many people do and the author should have had an easy time working with this. Instead, the main character does some incredibly stupid things while being an ass to others.
The best part of the book is sadly the childhood trauma flashbacks. I know it sounds awful, but these scenes were the most compelling parts. They are full of emotion and spotlight comments people make to shame you for eating and how they act like it’s so easy to hold back and eat less. What I didn’t like was the tie in at the end of the book. I wont spoil it for you but its just plain stupid.
One last thing was that I did listen to this book and the narrator was good but having to listen to them speak out all the different emojis was a little painful and there were a lot of emojis in this book.