Dorothy Daniels was brought up eating healthily. Her mother grew and cooked her own produce and was a queen in her kitchen. Dorothy inherited her mother`s love of cooking but had her own ideas of what was ideal in food, particularly meat, which leads her (by accident) to become a renowned food critic.
However, not only was Dorothy`s appetite for the good things in life voracious, she developed an even greater penchant for sex in all its varieties. She felt herself to be different from other people in her feelings towards others and finds it impossible to make lasting relationships with anyone.
Both her passions convene on an extraordinary level in her life – slaughtering, cooking and consuming parts of the men she loves.
Now Dorothy is serving a life-sentence in Bedford Hills Prison for Women, reliving her exploits from her childhood to the present day. Chelsea G. Summers treats us to the most detailed and eloquent descriptions of food, cooking and murder I think I have ever read! The reader is drawn into Dorothy`s thoughts and actions, at times rejoicing at, and at others utterly horrified, by them.
Dorothy is perfectly aware that she is a psychopath and so is the reader but such is the art of the writer, we feel sad for her in her lonely little cell with only her memories of the great meals she has consumed.
Not a book for those of a squeamish disposition!
Reviewed by Liz.
