Feast While You Can
a 'brilliantly visceral queer horror' for fans of Julia Armfield and Eliza Clark
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'The best lesbian book I’ve ever read' GRACE CURTIS, AUTHOR OF IDOLFIRE
'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
'It was sexy, it gave me night terrors, 10/10 would do again.' C.L. CLARK, AUTHOR OF THE UNBROKEN
'A frightening and sensual exploration of possession and eroticism' ERIC LAROCCA, AUTHOR OF THINGS HAVE GOTTEN WORSE SINCE WE LAST SPOKE
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In this tantalizing novel from married authors Clements and Datta (The View Was Exhausting), a horny lesbian is possessed by a monster. Angelina Sicco lives with her divorced friend Gemma and protective brother, Patrick, in "tiny ugly" Cadenze, a conservative Italian hamlet. The town only gets tourists during the summer months, when Angelina does what she can to satiate her libido. Her world is upended by the reappearance of "dykey" Jagvi, a childhood friend and Patrick's ex, who, since her departure from Cadenze, has become smug and condescending. The Siccos joke about a folkloric soul-devouring monster called "the thing," purported to live in the area's caves, where they sometimes go to party. When the thing follows Angelina home one night, she becomes violently possessed by it. She turns for help to Jagvi, and the women reckon with their long-simmering mutual desire and resentment as they work to vanquish the evil spirit. With arresting body horror, electric suspense, and intense sex scenes, the story moves at a breakneck clip. This carefully calibrated tale of queer desire is a feast for the senses.
