Raves and Reviews

“Serves up perceptive commentary on society’s obsession with fat and its treatment of fat bodies, hurtful enough that Emmett considers whether killing and eating people is a livable tradeoff for finally being thin…. The harrowing depictions of abuse are as affecting as the gore, but the novel also has fun despite the serious weight of its premise. Gory, a touch campy, and superbly well timed for the current cultural moment.” —Kirkus Reviews

“Nothing Tastes as Good is both a riveting novel and a commentary on our society's view of obesity, painting a poignant picture of Emmett's struggles as a fat person who also feels like a train wreck, with an inevitable crash-and-burn conclusion.” —Booklist

"Luke Dumas takes aim at culture's fitness and image obsession, one that demonizes whoever isn't the capitalism-stamped-and-approved size and shape. Sharp, honest, unflinching, horrifying, Nothing Tastes as Good is a distinctly American nightmare and it's Luke Dumas's best book yet." —Paul Tremblay, New York Times bestselling author of Horror Movie and A Head Full of Ghosts

“A staggeringly honest exploration of how shame, cruelty and the hunger for acceptance can make us feel sub-human. Visceral and vicious, horrifying and heart-wrenching, unflinching and unputdownable. Pulling no punches, this is the quintessential novel about the horrors of fatphobia, weight loss, and diet culture. —Rachel Harrison, New York Times bestselling author of Play Nice and So Thirsty

“Luke Dumas has served up something truly special here. Nothing Tastes as Good is gripping, funny, angry, heartbreaking, urgent, honest, unsparing, and more than a little terrifying. A must-read for anyone with body issues—which is to say, anyone with a body.” —Nat Cassidy, USA Today bestselling author of When the Wolf Comes Home and Mary

"Nothing Tastes as Good as a violently visceral and emotionally raw horror novel like this one. Luke Dumas puts fatphobia under the biomedical microscope and blows it up to monstrous proportions." —Brian McAuley, USA Today bestselling author of Breathe In, Bleed Out

“A searing, blisteringly aggressive critique of identity, queerness, and weight loss, this book shocked me and brutalized me in equal measure. Nothing Tastes as Good reminded me of when I watched The Substance for the very first time. I was enthralled, disgusted, and deeply moved.” —Eric LaRocca, author of Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke

“Nothing Tastes as Good is feverish and frightening (Dumas, one of today's most inventive novelists, also ranks amongst our most fearless), but it's unexpectedly moving, too. Horrific yet humane, lurid but longing, part thriller and part cautionary tale and altogether delectable.” —A. J. Finn, #1 New York Times bestselling author

"Deeply unsettling, complex, and visceral. Nothing Tastes as Good is a grotesque body horror that perfectly encapsulates the destructive pitfalls of our modern Ozempic era. It’s a book that will eat away at you with every page, leaving you hungry for more." —Liann Zhang, internationally bestselling author of Julie Chan is Dead

"I absolutely devoured Luke Dumas' new nightmare and have zero regrets. Nothing tastes as good as a Bachman book in overdrive—think Thinner for our modern medical times—where you burn through the pages faster than you can flip them." —Clay McLeod Chapman, author of Wake Up and Open Your Eyes

"A deliciously mean romp of a novel that eviscerates America's skinny obsession, using its sharpest canines. A true delight that shines insight on what it's like to be fat in a world obsessed with Instagram perfection." —Sarah Langan, author of Good Neighbors and A Better World