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A Carnivore's Inquiry
Written by Sabina Murray
Narrated by Wendy Hoopes
Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
3.5/5
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About this audiobook
Katherine, the winning and slightly disturbing twenty-three-year-old narrator of A Carnivore's Inquiry, journeys from literary New York to rural Maine and Mexico City trailed, everywhere she goes, by a string of murders.
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Reviews for A Carnivore's Inquiry
Rating: 3.6578947368421053 out of 5 stars
3.5/5
38 ratings4 reviews
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Despite the fact that the topic of Sabina Murray's novel is both gruesome and hard to digest (no pun intended), her writing is undeniably impressive. She neatly weaves together a suspenseful mystery, art history, American history and elements of Australian history to form tale so deplorable the reader can't help worry that this story was manifested in the mind of another human. The protagonist, Katherine Shea, is simultaneously inhuman and yet still remarkably human, making her actions all the more frightening. By the end of the novel, the cloud surrounding her true identity is still neatly contained. The reader is almost positive she has figured out Katherine's guilt, yet Murray still leaves room for doubt until the final page. Murray's knowledge of art history and her thorough research into cannibalism and historical cases of cannibalism make the novel a worthwhile read just to appreciate the work that went into constructing the story line. And though the story may be graphic, unappetizing, and hard to read at times, the way the tale is crafted make it worth the unpleasantness.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Narrated by Katherine, a young, beautiful, articulate, disturbed serial killer and cannibal, this modern-day gothic tale is a little over-the-top for my taste. The ending is worthy of Tarantino (and I'm not a fan of him!)
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Katherine is rather at loose odds after her return from Italy. She meets an expatriate Russian writer on the subway and ends up moving in with him that day. They later vacation in Maine, where Bad Billy, a serial killer, has escaped prison. There's a murder, the victim left with his throat torn out. Katherine decides she loves Portland and convinces Boris to rent a cabin there, where she'll stay while he's back in NY writing. As the murders continue, even to New Mexico and Mexico, where Katherine takes a vacation, Katherine keeps her sanity by thinking about cannibalism in art, history, and literature. {Now you see why I had to read this book.) I actually found some historical cannibals I hadn't heard of, so right there the book was worth it. I'd come up with 3 alternative answers for the murders; my first one was right. But the ends aren't wrapped up neatly, leaving the reader to think and ponder and question things. I think if everything had been tied up, it wouldn't have been nearly as good--life never wraps things up neatly after all
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5A female cannibal who doesn't realize that she is in fact a killer. Interesting idea, poorly executed. It's sad because Ms. Murray received a lot of press on this tale. If only she kept to the idea of cannibalism in art, then she might have had something. Mixing "On the Road" with "Silence of the Lambs" is a bit too much.