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2.5
Husk
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Charlie is a Husker on the prowl in the New Hampshire wilderness when he falls in love with one of them: a girl named Jill. Loving Jill means leaving the Husk clan, with its gruesome cannibalistic rituals, and that will be far more difficult – and dangerous – than Charlie could have foreseen.
It's only in New York City that the secret to ending his terrible cravings may reveal itself – if it doesn't kill him and everything he has grown to love first.
A darkly imagined tale, all the more frightening for its apparent ordinariness and plausibility, Husk is guaranteed to leave readers shaken, stirred – and chilled to the bone.
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2.5
“Ugh..................
I marked this book as to-read in 2018. I don't remember marking this book as to-read but then again I have 900+ books on my to-read shelf so I don't remember a lot of the books I mark as to-read. Especially not after 4 years. Sometimes I use a random number generator to pick my next read and lately this book has been coming up as my next read for about a month and so I finally said fuck it, I'll pick it up and finally read it.
First off, the beginning of this story is promising. I thought it was really interesting how the author frames the cannibalism being committed as a disease and a necessity to these people. There are certain rules about what they can and can't eat and they physically become ill or die if they eat the wrong thing. I feel like I've never seen that spin on cannibalism before and I thought it was a cool concept because then these people aren't inherently the villains. They're just doing what they have to do in order to survive. Okay, I'm there, cool.
Once we get about 50 pages in, the "romance" aspect of this horror-romance genre blend begins. There's a declaration on page 44 that, "as long as there's a chance I could be with Jill, I couldn't leave". Okay, I've read https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15842439.Warm_Bodies__Warm_Bodies___1_ , I enjoyed it. I'm here for a little horror romance. What follows in Charlie and Jill's relationship is a god damn nuisance. When Charlie and Jill get to NYC so begins their courtship. Except, Charlie doesn't want to court Jill until he has a steady career and living situation. Which is so so so fucking weird. And I get that this guy is from the depths of New Hampshire and is a cannibal but like what fucking sense does this holier-than-thou concept of not being able to "court" (which, in a 98 page span the word "court" or "courting" is used 15 times which is an average of every SIX PAGES or so) someone until you have a job and an apartment come from?
Charlie and Jill are both pretty annoying characters. I didn't really like anything about either of them. Jill is just completely cool with taking this stranger in who picked her up from the side of the road where she was left by her boyfriend of two years and then this guy swoops in and she's like psh yeah fuck that other guy he was so possessive and controlling, you can live with me and be my new boyfriend! Girlie, you just got out of a two year relationship less than 12 hours ago and you're already looking to move on with this *complete stranger* that you know nothing about? It's giving toxicity.... It's giving naivety....It's giving unbelievable.
There's a decent size chunk of this book that's just a summary of what's happened already in the book. Not only that but it's incredibly repetitive. Nothing happens for a good 50-70 pages except the exact same stuff that happened the day before. Charlie goes to work, Charlie goes looking for the other clan member he saw once, Charlie comes home and him and Jill go to dinner or make dinner. Repeat for the next FIFTY pages.
A few specific things that annoyed me,
There's other stuff I could get into but I'm going to stop myself. I've ranted far too long. People seem to enjoy this book. I happen to not be one of those people.”
“**Thank you to NetGalley and Severn House for a free e-copy in exchange for an honest review.**
Charlie is a Husker who is happy with his cannibalistic ways until he meets Jill. Instead of taking her back to be shared with his clan, he decides to run away from his old life and start anew with Jill. But the clan won't let him go that easily.
This is a great cannibal love story! Yep, you read that right! An entertaining little story with lots of blood.”
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