2023/131: The Hunger — Alma Katsu

2023/131: The Hunger — Alma Katsu

...a rage that wanted to devour him, or wanted him to devour the world — he wasn’t sure which. [loc. 4181]

I was in the mood for a horror novel, but didn't find this one especially chilling. The setting is the American West in the middle of the 19th century, and a disparate group of people are travelling in a wagon train from Illinois to California. The land is not adequately mapped, there are rumours of a short cut, and winter is coming: and there is something very hungry out in the woods( Read more... )