Book guide
Butter
A journalist chases a killer’s recipe and finds her own hunger awakening.
Genre and trope pairingsThrillerFeminine rageThrillerSerial killerMysterySecret pastCrimeSerial killerLiteraryFeminine rageLiterarySocial commentary
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About Butter
Tokyo journalist Rika Machida investigates gourmet cook and convicted serial killer Manako Kajii, entering a charged exchange about food, obsession, misogyny and desire.
Reading signals
- Spice
- Light
- Darkness
- Dark
- Pacing
- Slow
Content warnings
- fatshaming
- sexism
- death
- murder
- grief
- detailed food descriptions
- sexual assault (backstory)
- eating disorder (backstory)
