Food doesn't scream.

Seventeen stories, all bizarre and with a taste of horror: modern day adult fairy stories. As suggested by the title, each is in some way connected to food or the preparation room, the kitchen and the participants include witches, pink panties, a mini Mexican ghost and animated foodstuffs amongst the more regular humans. Curiously, respited the very frequent, detailed and fully explicitly sexual experiences, it remains unrelentingly non-erotic. Sex, but not sexy.

This, in part at least, is down to the narration. Although her character dialogue was good, Missie Cambridge read the linking texts more like an automaton, clear but without any accompanying emotion, with a slow timing also blitzed with odd, out of place mini pauses. The whole had a sense of the totally surreal with Missie Cambridge's voice being just another misplaced ingredient.

All of which is not to say that this book failed to entertain. There were some truly humerous chapters, including the battle to survive in the delectable, Wrath of the Buttery Bastard Taters, and in the inherent dangers of programming a kitchen droid to inadvertently do something other than cook: good advice to be found there! My thanks to the rights holder for gifting me a complimentary copy of Mashed, via Audiobook Boom. Not really my cup of tea but it was fun whilst it lasted..

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