This is a book that seems crafted from the stuff of our deepest fears and our most illicit desires ... Clark, you realise, isn’t a writer who will keep very long to any one path. This collection, full of shock and surprises, filth and wonder, is occasionally hard to reckon with, but harder still to forget.
It’s refreshing to read an author who doesn’t feel pigeonholed by the genre in which she has found success, but these stories feel baggy compared to Clark’s typically razor-sharp approach.
Everything here bar the stories above is pretty laborious. Too many of Clark’s shocks are signalled from the start, her plot twists explained in detail after the fact, her jokes cheap and drawn out, and her exposition clunky.
Readers of horror and speculative fiction will thoroughly enjoy this fun collection of short stories, which vary from space adventures to a tale told through restaurant reviews ... The feminist themes and rich characters of She’s Always Hungry will stick with readers long after they close the book.
