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Average Review:  Number of reviews: 1
Mary Benson
from Lower Lake, CA
Hungry left me hungry for more
Alethea Eason's Hungry features Deborah, or Dbkrrrsh as she is known on her home planet, as she discovers that her Home World intends to invade the Earth and consume the humans as their newest food source. Deborah learns that her race has historically used up a planet's resources until there is nothing left, and then they locate another food source on another planet. Deborah has something she'd like to teach her race about eating, and about managing the resources. Her parents want her to prove her loyalty to the native race by consuming her best friend, Willie.
The story is told with Deborah's 6th-grade voice, which is strong and funny. Clearly the issues of eating aren't meant to be taken literally or seriously, but more as a parody of our consumption-based society. Hungry never gets preachy, though. The reader is free to draw their own conclusions.
Deborah has a humorous voice, and her dilemma as she wrestles with the conflicting loyalties to her best friend and to her family is handled sensitively and realistically. I found myself on both sides of the fence more than once, and felt the characters and their behavior ring very true. When Deborah is "tested" in a purgation ceremony ritual from the Home World, the extraordinary and vivid world is hypnotic in its scenery and action.
Hungry is an excellent book for parents and teachers to talk about values and right choices. It is also very entertaining, and a page-turner. Hungry is altogether a superb read.
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