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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Emmett called Dr. Saito on Monday and let her know that he was in. She seemed satisfied to be able to cross it off her list, as if having never doubted he would break.

Once a week, Emmett snuck away at lunch for an hourlong Zoom with the Monstera team, who, despite previously saying they wanted his input, seemed happy for him to nod in agreement at whatever they put in front of him.

Mostly he was fine with the direction but pushed back where he felt the message clashed with his personal brand—insisting, for example, that this wasn’t a story about “losing weight,” but of total transformation, inside and out.

“Like a butterfly emerging from a chrysalis,” Rachael said.