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After 3/4 of the story was read I finally got into it. When I first started reading this book I was thinking it might be pretty interesting, but after the first few chapters I was bored with it. I decided not to close it for good though because I wanted to find out if Thalia ever got to actually eat real food. Thats honestly what kept me reading...silly huh?
This story is basically about a girl named Thalia who lives in the future <she lives a privaleged life> which survives on a liquid substance that gives them all their nutrition. She starts to feel hunger pains and ends up meeting a boy named Basil that is experiencing the same thing. They join a revolution and end up being hunted down and eventually end up living in the wilderness on a farm with a fanatic as a leader. This is where the story actually gets good!
Ive read many books a lot better then this one but if you decide to buy it, be patient because you have a lot of reading to do before it takes off.


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Hungry H A Swain Books Reviews

Great summer read! This book had me hooked from the start. Loved the development of Thalia's character and the descriptions of the futuristic environment. Highly recommend to start your summer reading list off right!
This book is hard to put down. It has the right amount of adventure mixed with just enough romance!
The characters were well developed,at least in the beginning, toward the end not so well.
The overall idea of having one city that has it all after apocalyptic wars is getting used a lot. That being said, I enjoyed every minute of the book and was sad to not see a promotion after the epilogue for book two.

Sincerely,
Leilani Hall
I am not a huge fan of sic-fi, so I was a bit trepidatious about reading Hungry. However, I was hooked from the start. I loved watching Apple develop from a somewhat whiny, highly privileged teenager to a thoughtful and committed activist. I loved the diversity of her family and the competing views presented by her parents and grandparents. I loved the sense of humor and the sense of adventure. I loved that good and evil were not so easy to discern. Just plain loved it.
I am a big ya reader. I loved hunger games and liked divergent and while there is a lot of dystopian reading out there, hungry still feels fresh and different. Thalia is a zany kick butt coder. Basil is like Thalia in terms of interests and aptitudes, but from the wrong side of the tracks. The earth has been ravaged by greedy corporations, and the world seems full of idiots.
This book is about another dystopian society, yet remained interesting to me because it took a bit of a different approach on the typical dystopian society storyline. The elements regarding corporate involvement and food control prove to be an interesting reflection on current capitalism and food politics and medicine, making it all the more interesting. I also felt that the main character was unexpected yet more believable towards the end. Overall a good, quick read.
Big ideas and world-building are clearly Swain’s strengths in her debut novel for teens, Hungry. Displaced in a futuristic world of an ever-present high tech gadgets and amusements which seek to numb the citizenry of the Chicago-esque Inner Loop (think Brave New World), narrator Thalia Apple is a bit of an old-fashioned girl. She enjoys learning knitting from her grandmother, dressing retro, and abandoning technological entertainment for more physical, tactile activities.

Like eating.

Which is a major no-no in the clinical, medicated world of Hungry, and the point where we are first introduced to Thalia.

In Hungry, we are introduced to a world where food is no longer necessary, or possible, due to some vaguely-described past war in which humans essentially eradicated all the plants and animals and are now living in a post-nuclear war society. Warning If you’re a bit squeamish about the feasibility of a world where no plants exist to create oxygen, not even the hardiest insects survive, and yet humans continue on callously with no further aim than their ultimate consumerism, now may be the time to check your disbelief at the door.

Aside from this gap in scientific logic, the world Swain creates is quite an interesting take on the future state of society and the ironic (and unhealthy) disparities we struggle with in our relationship to food. In an American culture obsessed with food yet with so many diets being propagated about which foods are “taboo” and which aren’t, the idea of a society without such struggles due to a medical cure to eradicate those desires and those conflicts, is an interesting one. Not entirely original to the genre, but still, the way Swain handled it was innovative. With her world-building strength, too, Swain show us a panoramic, comprehensive view of the way this would play out across all stratifications of society from the elite Inner Loop which replaces food cravings with other stimuli; to the poverty-stricken Hinterlands (think The Postman) whose people are coarse and almost animalistic in their struggle for survival; and finally even the splinter, earth-worshipping cult factions that would spring from society’s outliers and revolutionaries. Across the board, one thing is consistent – in a world run by a sort of super-Modsanto corporation which takes over the government and manipulates entertainment as way to modify and regulate human behavior in the absence of food – society has gone awry.

Unfortunately, so too does Hungry’s plot as it tries to grapple with too many issues in a relatively short span of 372 pages, rendering Thalia and Basil’s story a bit disjointed. As they jump from one stratification of society to another, we are left with only glimpses of each world before we are hastily thrust into the next. There is no time for deeper reflection, for either the character or the reader, and no real integration between the big ideas (greed, poverty, survival, self-identification, to name a few) each level of society represents. Instead, we are left with shallow, passing reflections that don’t truly impact Thalia and Basil, nor bring about any kind of character evolution. Because of this disconnect, I, at least, felt more like I was navigating a dream-world than somewhere real and tangible that would leave an indelible mark on my mind.

Or maybe, just like the impressionistic, hedonistic society, that is the point.

(Dramatic pause for consideration.)

Moving along.

The biggest struggle I actually encountered reading this book was the characters themselves. It may be my own bias, but when reading a book (especially a young adult novel where the presence and development of the self is so integral and lime-lighted, as it should be in this period of self-discovery for teens), I like a character I can connect with, a character whose story and developmental arc resonates with my own through those tremulous teen years. Thalia Apple, regrettably, contained none of these qualities for me. She is vaguely likeable with her mild forms of rebellion, but she is ultimately an unreliable narrator I can never quite grasp, perhaps because she herself is full of contradictions. She is purported to be something of a technological genius through her acts of subversion with the Dynasaurs, yet she hates the very technology she uses to undermine society. Even worse, for someone so smart, someone so hooked into the underbelly of One World through both her online friends and her own parents, she sure is almost unbelievably naïve about the nature of the society in which she lives. If there is one thing Thalia does seem determined about in Hungry, it is her ability to ignore the facts of everything before her for some idealistic memory – a memory that I can’t help but wonder how she ever formed in the first place, but that’s another argument for another day.

All of this I could forgive if there was one reliable relationship throughout the whole story. Our narrator is unreliable, okay, fine. That’s certainly a viable writing tactic and one that can be put to astounding use (thank you, Holden Caulfield). But c’mon, this is a young adult dystopian novel. We’re not talking great fiction/the next great American novel here. We’re talking about a teen world where yes, everything feels tipped against the narrator, but there’s always that one ray of sunlight. There’s always that one person the narrator can hang onto as a steadfast sense of encouragement when her own resources and talents have failed her.

For Thalia Apple, that one person – I think – was supposed to be Basil. Yet Basil just won’t comply to any overwrought trope of teen writing. He’s not particularly smart, he’s not particularly mature, he doesn’t have anything Thalia would long for (okay, maybe the scent of chocolate he can produce from his souped-up toaster), and we don’t even really get a clear description of his swoon-worthy physical characteristics. Normally, I’m not a big fan of male love-interests who do so easily satisfy these tropes. Give me someone who is an outlier, someone who defies my expectations, who makes me love him in spite of not having any traditional qualities worthy of admiring or coveting. But Basil…oh Basil. Arrogant, aloof, and cagey, this boy is a bundle of nervous energy and defensiveness which make him anything but strong, sexy, or confident. He’s also hardly physically present for most of the novel, always disappearing or else outright ignoring her when Thalia needs him most; and is never really emotionally present for her. What Thalia sees in him, I’m not sure.

The fact that he also seems to harbor some deep-rooted contempt for her despite her trailing after him like a lost puppy, is also very disturbing, and definitely misplaced - both in the way it unfolds and in the author’s placement of the scene of his unraveling within the structure of the novel. Typically, one would expect such a conflict of classes/personalities to happen near the beginning of the novel, when the characters first encounter each other and are the most dissimilar in their world views. You know, before ye olde contradictory emotions of “I shouldn’t, but I do” kick in…but oh, that’s right, those are also regulated by Synthamil. Anyway. Instead, Swain places their “differences of opinion” argument nearly halfway to two-thirds of the way through the novel, after the characters have already gone through a crazy emotional journey, after they’ve already had their first kiss, after they’ve already started to forget their differences and been on their joint venture for some time, just when the coming together/bonding should start to happen; the pacing is just completely off. While Thalia doesn’t seem all that phased by Basil’s emotional outburst (which she did nothing to precipitate, by the way), I was left feeling very confused by their dysfunctional, toxic non-relationship.

One relationship I would have liked to see developed more fully was that of her relationship with her grandmother, the one steady influence in her life. At the beginning, we get a sense that her grandmother is going to play a crucial role in guiding Thalia, too, yet somewhere halfway through, her grandmother and her parents both recede into the background as helpless, trapped servants of One World. Again, I think characters were sacrificed at the expense of the plot, and when they no longer served a function, they disappeared.

My own feelings about Hungry remain as convoluted as Thalia’s and Basil’s relationship there were some good parts, some moments I will remember fondly as my fingers skim past the book on my bookshelf, but overall, there were too many problems to make this book viable. Part of this I would guess is not completely Swain’s fault. This book felt rushed. Not from a writing perspective but from an editing and publishing perspective. It is almost as if each separate part could have easily been three separate novels, more fully-fleshed out and developed to become what I think Swain’s intentions were for the story, but the idea was nixed part-way through the publication process. As such, cramming so many big ideas into one book made it seem – if you’ll excuse the pun – as if Swain “bit off more than she could chew”. Perhaps with a little more space to expand her ideas, to properly build the complicated relationship between Thalia and Basil, Hungry could have been the next Hunger Games. It was just never given the chance to grow.
After 3/4 of the story was read I finally got into it. When I first started reading this book I was thinking it might be pretty interesting, but after the first few chapters I was bored with it. I decided not to close it for good though because I wanted to find out if Thalia ever got to actually eat real food. Thats honestly what kept me reading...silly huh?
This story is basically about a girl named Thalia who lives in the future <she lives a privaleged life> which survives on a liquid substance that gives them all their nutrition. She starts to feel hunger pains and ends up meeting a boy named Basil that is experiencing the same thing. They join a revolution and end up being hunted down and eventually end up living in the wilderness on a farm with a fanatic as a leader. This is where the story actually gets good!
Ive read many books a lot better then this one but if you decide to buy it, be patient because you have a lot of reading to do before it takes off.