Compelling and hard to put down! This one was all over Instagram and it was like everyone and their Nan had to read it. And it is good! But maybe not worth quite the hype that was expressed in my corner of bookstagram. 

Mama (Ruth) and Margot live in the woods where any wanderers may get lost and never be seen again. Ruth has a taste for a specific meat 🥩 and not one you find in the supermarket. Everything changes when Eden finds their cottage, and instead of turning her into dinner, Ruth makes her her lover. Eden seems too good to be true though, and soon her desires sway Ruth’s away from the status quo of Margot’s life so far. 

Things I liked: Margot and her school friends relationship, Margot and the bus drivers relationship, Margot’s determination towards the end. 
Things I disliked: the weird constant mentioning of church dresses and the amount of buttons done up, the short chapters, the pacing in the middle of the book, the ending was not the one I wanted!
Things that should have bothered me more but didn’t: the descriptions of gore, cannibalism etc. 

I originally rated this a 4.5 but reflecting on the writing and the little things that bugged me has been dropping it to a 4.