Camille DeAngelis

A girl who hates herself must have a queer boyfriend who hates himself just as much. The correlation between her cannibalism and her bodily rejection was so depressing. She only eats boys who want to be intimate with her, be that sexually or platonically. I haven't seen the movie yet but her consumption of Lee was so sad and not something that speaks to her self acceptance, at least, not in a positive way. Consuming Lee was the last thing she did as a human, as a person who could love and be loved. Really dark -- when she spends the whole book clinging to her humanity and then is fine with no longer caring, no longer looking for love, no longer wanting to be a human at all. Is that self acceptance? In a way, sure. She can work at a library, loving books, memorizing the call numbers of cannibals and demons, and eating anyone who shows a modicum of community with her. No man is an island, not even cannibals. it felt like such a weird strange ending, for this girl who spends the whole book ruminating on forgiveness, and nature, and trying to understand family to just go Jennifer's Body at the end.… (more)