Review: Season to Taste

Season to Taste by Natalie Young

My rating: 3 of 5 stars


A startling debut about the extraordinary end of a marriage and its very strange aftermath.

Meet Lizzie Prain. She is an ordinary housewife and lives with her lovely dog and her husband, who is a bit of a difficult fellow, in a quiet cottage in British country side. She's a wonderful cook. She enjoys her garden. And, occasionally, she makes cakes for the village parties.

No one has seen Lizzie's husband, Jacob, for a few days. That's because last Monday and Lizzie snapped and cracked him on the head with her garden shovel. No one quite misses Jacob though, and Lizzie surely didn't kill him on purpose. And now that she has the chance to live beyond his shadow, she won't neglect her good fortune. Over the course of the following month, with a body to get rid of and few fail-proof options at hand, Lizzie will channel her most practical instincts and do what she does best: she'll cook Jacob, and she'll eat him. But when Lizzie inadvertently befriends an isolated misfit, she will be tested: Will Lizzie turn to this new person for solace and abandon her desperate plan or will her new friend be an unwitting accessory to her crime?

Dark, unexpectedly funny, and achingly human, Season to Taste is a deliciously subversive treat. In Lizzie Prain, Natalie Young has created one of the most remarkable and surprising heroines in fiction.

--My thoughts. Well. What do you say when someone kills their husband and eats them. Wow. At first I wanted to see if it got better or why she really killed him. He might have had an affair. Was the other lady classier than her? I think I really was like in awe when she was eating the toes and stuff. The thigh.. yikes.

I was hoping something really crazy would happen but it just ended ho hum and that is why I gave it three stars. Lizzie was bizarre. I don't know how I felt but it was weird. She should have gotten better with cooking him.

I received this book from the goodreads first read program in exchange for my honest opinion.



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