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Reviews"Terrifying, darkly funny, and hauntingly sexy, Feast While You Can is definitely making it onto my list of favorite reads for 2024."-- BookTrib, "[An] exciting new hybrid horror-romance. . . Where the novel sings is in its representations of queer life and desire. . .Queer women have always been part of the horror genre. But in the capable, beckoning hands of Clements and Datta, we get to see the story from their perspective, with monsters made not from them, but for them. In Feast While You Can , queer desire is the cure, not the curse, and it will satiate readers who have subsisted for too long on the crumbs of representation." -- New York Times Book Review, "In this sexy, scary novel, a monstrous force that feeds on passion awakes, and Angelina has to stop it before it eats her life--literally."-- People Magazine, "FEAST WHILE YOU CAN is a singingly clever and gnarly tale of hunger and possession. Lesbian pulp meets literary horror--truly unlike anything else. The sexiest book you'll read this year!"-- Yael van der Wouden, author of The Safekeep, " The View Was Exhausting is a pure delight! Effortlessly cool, razor sharp, and crazy fun--I couldn't put it down. It is Notting Hill for 2021, an absolute crowd pleaser."-- Taylor Jenkins Reid, New York Times bestselling author of Daisy Jones & The Six, "An erotic, feral masterpiece that straddles the imagined borders between lust and horror, crafting a new kind of folklore that taps into the very essence of desire. Impossible to put down, but you must try--because a literary feast like this should be enjoyed slowly."-- Jennifer Neal, author of Notes on Her Color
SynopsisSHORTLISTED 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?