Nothing Tastes as Good

A Novel

De: Luke Dumas

Narrado por: Graham Halstead, Ali Andre Ali, Raquel Beattie, Cassandra Campbell, James Anderson Foster

The nationally bestselling author of The Paleontologist and A History of Fear returns with a spine-tingling new thriller about a weight loss treatment with terrifying side effects.

Retail worker Emmett Truesdale has never fit the Southern California mold of six-pack, suntanned masculinity. Over three hundred pounds, he carries the weight of his childhood trauma and millennial ennui around his waist and in his soul. After trying every diet under the sun, he remains stuck—in his dead-end job, in love, and in his body.

Desperate for help, he enrolls in a clinical trial for a new weight loss product called Obexity. The treatment is as horrifying as the results are miraculous and as Emmett sheds pounds at superhuman speed, every part of his life improves overnight.

Unfortunately, Obexity comes with some killer side effects, including lost stretches of time and overwhelming cravings. Worse, people who were cruel to him have started disappearing and when the police warn of a cannibalistic killer on the loose, he fears that Obexity is turning him into a monster. But how can he give it up now that people are finally starting to treat him like he’s human?

Nerve-racking, sinister, and at times surreal, Nothing Tastes as Good is an unputdownable thriller that combines the body horror and social commentary of The Substance with the best of Stephen King and keeps you guessing until the final page.

Slow burn, great ending

The story is a bit of a slow burn, but the last third is action packed with a good pay off. I would like to have had a bit more gore or suspense, but it's a very interesting concept.

Hold onto ur butt, brother

This was a wild ride. I was locked in the whole time. The last 2 hours of listening my jaw was agape. I couldn’t sit down. I was standing on a chair cleaning my kitchen cabinets at 10pm, mouth wide open. I’m still not sure how to process what I’ve just listened to. I have never gasped a gust quite like the one I did at the end of this book.

Not a horror

Oh man, I enjoy the story for the most part. The narration was really good. The concept of the story was pretty cool and for the most part I couldn’t stop reading it. I found it very interesting. However, there are so many aspects of it that were just so wrong that I feel like it took away from the story, first off every single part about pharmaceutical research was completely incorrect in this book and for someone coming from a pharmaceutical research background, it was frustrating. I wish the author had taken more time to at least get some aspects, correct. And this book suggest a horror book, but I didn’t find any of it to be scary or even remotely bring my heart rate up. Some of it was a little gross, but not nearly as intense as of the other reviews suggest the way the book ended it just felt a little cliché. I just feel like the ending was a very similar scenario you see and any different mysteries with a log monologue from both the protagonist and the antagonist I feel like this book could’ve had so much more going for it if the author had chosen to refine their thoughts and concepts more, this is definitely a book I would possibly just read some reviews about and get spoilers. It was engaging, but not necessarily worth a credit. really good.

those Pokémon references....

I'm a millennial and I grew up with Pokémon. hell, I still play the games but those references throughout the story were so cringe

this is such an amazing book!

I have nothing bad to say about this book. it was amazing. it is a must listen. hold on to your chair