When I first saw the slender volume in my hands, I couldn't help but wonder if this book could live up to all of the story it was boasting. It more than lived up to it, but surpassed what I expected it to be. 
 Lisa has a problem. She's fat. Or at least, that's what the little voice, the Thin Voice keeps telling her. So Lisa spends her days calculating her every bite & exercising to counteract any unwanted calories that she consumes. When the entity Death comes to Lisa during a suicide attempt & makes her into Famine, Lisa is confused about what she is ultimately expected to do. With her boyfriend & ex-best friend bugging her about her eating problems, the horsewoman War threatening her existence & her friend Tammy enabling Lisa's eating problems, Lisa needs to figure out exactly who she is. What she doesn't know is that becoming Famine might be the best thing that ever happened to her. 
 If you like stuff like "Wicked Lovely" & the Holly Black series, you'll love this book. It has a healthy dash of dark urban fantasy in it, but the main focus of the book is on Lisa's anorexia. I loved that this was the book's main focus & I like the detail that the author put into it. The afterword at the end of the book has the author confessing her own history with an eating disorder, so you can tell that the author really put her all into this book. 
 The author manages to tackle the whole anorexia disorder with style & empathy. She manages to get her point across about eating disorders without going over the top or getting preachy. Lisa as a character was incredibly vulnerable & at several parts in the novel I could really empathize with her troubles. She's a character that you really can root for & hope that she gets the help she needs. And if you were wondering- no worries, this isn't an "everything gets 110% fixed by the end" type of book. 
 My only real complaint is that I really would have liked for a little more detail in the book. Much like its heroine, the book just really needed to be a little meatier & fleshed out. The book's short length does work for it, but I would have liked to have had just a little more about Lisa's background, her relationship with her family & friends, as well as a little bit more about the whole Four Horsemen stuff. 
 The author leaves enough to where she could write more books in this universe if she so chose, which I hope she'll do. This book could have been a little better, but it is very well done & I hope that she'll continue this into a series with a book about each Horseman/woman. 
 (ARC provided by Vine)