Nothing Tastes As Good

Nothing Tastes As Good

Author: Luke Dumas Listening Length: 11h 25m

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...

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The text came the following morning, and Emmett assumed by its tone of concerned coddling that his mother had heard about the fight at the restaurant. Is everything okay? If there’s anything you want to talk about I’m always here. Call me soon. Love you.

He ignored it, mostly because things were busy at the store—some woman was having a meltdown over a flatpack cabinet she’d spent three hours building before realizing it was missing a piece—then he had to dash home to shower.

He had plans to meet Aaron for a movie, some French horror thing about a student with a taste for human flesh.

They skipped popcorn, and halfway into the movie he was starving despite the stomach-turning violence on-screen.