Feast While You Can
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5.0 • 3개의 평가
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SHORTLISTED FOR BEST HORROR NOVEL BY THE BRITISH FANTASY AWARDS
For readers of Nightbitch and We Ride Upon Sticks, an "exciting new hybrid horror-romance" about queer love in a small town that serves as an unsettling reminder that the horrors of modern life is a monster ready to possess us all (New York Times Book Review).
Angelina Sicco was born and raised in Cadenze, an ugly little mountain town that's dead most of the year. Determined to be content with her lot in life, she walks her mongrel dog, attends her brother's heavy metal concerts, holds court in the local dive bar, and does everything she can to bait hot, queer women to her sleepy, conservative hometown. But on the night of a family party, Angelina runs into the sternly handsome Jagvi, who's back in town for a spell.
Upon Jagvi's arrival, an ancient evil is awakened, and a monstrous force infiltrates Angelina's life. Only Jagvi’s touch repels it — the final trigger for a secret, passionate romance. But this monster feasts on all the passion, heartbreak and mess that makes up a life, and Angelina Sicco’s life has never looked tastier. What will Angelina do to protect her future? And what will it cost her?
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.
