Let me start off by saying that I don’t like Milk Fed. Melissa Broder made this character incredibly hateable, and I usually like hateable characters, but this one ain’t it so I suffered while reading this book.
The main character has eating disorder—she eats too much when she eats and starves herself the entire day just to binge at night. So, while reading, she felt like a ticking bomb, ready to make a mess of everything. Except, that mess didn’t really come, did it?
I feel like this book builds up a lot of problems, but the ending wasn’t as explosive as it should have been. The summary supposedly says it’s funny, but I didn’t find anything funny at all. I think most of it was over the top—thinking about food all the time and relating everything to food, which doesn’t feel realistic at all.
There’s also a huge part of the book where she goes to a bar to do stand-up comedy. Now, her whole personality is supposed to be funny, but she wasn’t funny at all. Tell me, when was she funny? When she smelled shit on her date while he was eating her out? To prove she’s not funny, in all her stand-up scenes, the author didn’t give us any of the actual lines she said in her comedy routine. It seems to just be a passing detail to add personality to her character.
Every piece of the story seems to just go in circles: office, ice cream, eating someone out, then trying to sabotage herself. Her eating disorder seems to get resolved midway, but there’s no real story that builds up to how she overcame it.
I didn’t really enjoy this book. I can’t lie, though, the opening scene did hook me.
Have you read this book? If you have, share your thoughts in the comments! If not, let me know if it’s on your list! ❤️
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