Death, who took the form of Kurt Cobain, said on p. 49 "Thou art famine, yo... Time to make with the starvation." The synopsis of the book sounds cheesy - an anorexic teenage girl becomes Famine, one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse - but Hunger was surprisingly well-written and enjoyable. The depiction of Lisabeth's agony and self-loathing as she suffers from her eating disorder was brutal and true. I thought that the contrast between these teenage girls suffering from these so-called "first world problems" with food and populations in developing countries stricken with famine and disease was written quite well. Kessler wrote in a unflinching manner that did not negate the misery that starvation causes these two very different groups of people. The clear, stark writing and the way that Kessler shaped the mythology reminded me a bit of The Sandman, which is a MOST excellent thing. So, I give Hunger 3.5 stars. Some points were docked off because I wish the book were longer. It felt like there were a lot of parts that were just begging to be fleshed out more, mostly concerning the mythology of the Horsemen and their characterization.