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I can never escape the past. Its mark on me has been made too deep.
Kat Dunn, Hungerstone
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I can never escape the past. Its mark on me has been made too deep.
Kat Dunn, Hungerstone
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Finished Hunger Stone and I loved it - blitzed through it in two days and was really taken with the gothic mood and being in the mind of the protagonist. Loved the angle of vampirism and the themes of want, hunger, and reclaiming one' own life. Should be required reading for every woman approaching 30 (or over!)
It was as though the universe had drawn back a curtain and revealed a truth to me: only in fiction was there logic and sense. Good fortune and bad came in equal measure, the just were saved and the wicked punished. In real life, there was no limit to misfortune. You could fall and fall, and never reach the bottom. I had thought myself owed some happy twist of fate, some future good luck, but I knew now that it was only a dream. I was owed nothing. The ground beneath my feet was fragile and unstable, it could shift and break at any moment, no matter what I did.
— Hungerstone, Kat Dunn
Rottenheart by Kat Dunn
Release date: 5 June 2026
Genre: adult gothic horror
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Odette and Cecilia are young women, living between their grand homes in Hampstead and the imposing, ancient Herne House in Suffolk. Though Odette's artist mother Lydia keeps a tight grasp on her, she and her beloved Cecilia are mostly left free to roam, to learn and to love.
But when Lydia inexplicably sickens and dies, a dark veil falls. As the funeral rites are performed, Odette's aunt, the cold and implacable Claudine, increasingly takes charge of the household, while her father retreats to his study. Odette, lost in grief, disappears into the shadows.
But as Claudine is announced as Odette's new stepmother, a sinister presence in the house makes itself known. To her horror, Odette realises that despite her death, Lydia never really left. And now she wants revenge . . .
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Title: Hungerstone | Author: Kat Dunn | Publisher: Zando (2025)
"I'm sorry," she says, mouth smeared cherry-red with blood. "I'm sorry." The bird lies limp, chest cavity cracked open, and the pulsing slick mess of organs and muscle spread before her like a meal.
The girl looks at me, and it is as though I am broken open like the carcass in her hands, and every small, unspeakable thought is known.
All she says is:
"I was so terribly hungry."
(Kat Dunn Hungerstone)
I am SUPER late to the Hungerstone train, especially as someone who absolutely adores the original Carmilla Novella! HOWEVER!! Here are my thoughts anyway!
(MAJOR SPOILERS DUH)
Throughout the novel Lenore is shown to be a people pleaser, who isn’t able to articulate or ask for the things she wants/needs. Carmilla’s presence is at first a blight for her, as Carmilla questions Lenore’s actions and criticizes her lack of backbone. One of the central themes that really stood out to me was the idea of hunger, (haha name of the novel) the idea that when we starve ourselves of our own desires, and put ourselves second to those around us, we are essentially killing our true selves. Lenore was a very relatable character to me not only in that way, but also in the way her anxiety is portrayed in the novel one line that sticks out in particular, “…my body bucks and breaks beneath my hand, it is it’s own animal, with it’s own limits. It betrays me with its wants and needs…” (p.89). Lenore is so disconnected throughout the novel not only from her own desire but also from her own physical form. She denies herself everything to the point in which she quite literally feels separate from her own skin. A sentiment that shows up several times throughout the first part of the book. By the time Lenore is unleashed (turned) in part 2 she is a much more calm collected and most importantly CERTAIN individual, she finally asserts her wants and desires in her own inner monologues, something she struggled with in the first half of the novel. And when she finally frees herself, first with the murder of her friend Cora, a character symbolizing Lenore’s ties to polite society and self control, and then the murder of Henry, a character symbolizing Lenore’s ties to marriage and more specifically misogyny, she has severed herself from the things in her life that were 1. Trapping her in an unhappy and subservient life and 2. Killing her (literally). Overall my most enjoyable read of the year so far!