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A very, very rare 5 star review. This is the book I will shoving at people and yelling, “Here! You must read this! NOW!” for a long time to come.
Most Americans are somewhat familiar with the infamous Donner Party, a group of pioneering settlers in 19th century who got stuck in a snow covered pass in the Sierra Nevada mountains and resorted to cannibalism to stay alive. Alma Katsu takes this harrowing tale of death and survival and adds supernatural elements to the all-too-human drama. Are the sounds and shadows in the woods real, or hallucinations brought on by extreme conditions? After reading this, I'm not quite sure.
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A terrifying reimagining of the events that befell Donner party. Historical fiction/horror done right. I thoroughly enjoyed this tense, atmospheric novel. Knowing the history of the Donner party meant feeling in my bones the doom that stalked them, the inevitability of their fate, but in no way diminished the building tension or the fragile hope I held for certain characters. (I'm not great with names so I couldn't recall who actually lived and who died.) This is the first book by Alma Katsu I h
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Fun fact I grew up in a state famous for its own cannibal – Alfred Packer. The University of Colorado even had an eatery named after him. I’ve since been interested in true tales of individuals driven to that extreme. The Hunger retells the fate of the Donner party but with a supernatural twist.
The Hunger follows several characters in the Donner Party. We learn about Tamsen Donner, George Donner's wife; James Reed, who steps up as leader of the group; Charles Stanton, traveling on his own; Lewis ...more
The Hunger follows several characters in the Donner Party. We learn about Tamsen Donner, George Donner's wife; James Reed, who steps up as leader of the group; Charles Stanton, traveling on his own; Lewis ...more
A retelling of the infamous Donner Party expedition to make the crossing to California along the Oregon Trail. Like a much more sensitive retelling of The Terror, but whereas Dan Simmons writes like a 16-year-old, Alma Katsu writes with thoughtfulness and diligence. Slight upgrade from 3-star, because I ate a dinner of hot lamb strips as I was reading the last 100 pages, which gave a grim realism to their encounters with cannibalism.
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Really really liked this one! It was gross, terrifying, made me very uncomfortable at points. an excellent alternate history romp into both monsters and the monsters that are humans.
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