I REALLY don't know what to say about this one! I was really enjoying it, and the bisexual representation was spot in, for the first time! There was this feeling though to me that the last 10% things happened that shouldn't have all happened so fast in my opinion, it was just really jarring and a little bit too neat. Overall I enjoyed the book, but there needs to be some major content warnings and I think serious themes such as EDs were just kind of thrown in flippantly and then ignored. I enjoyed the authors writing style but yeah< I am going to have to put more thought into this one!

This book is absolutely wild, unfortunately I may have been slightly too much of a prude for it. I loved the cover and some of the story but some of the sex was just a bit too much for me and it took up a big amount of the book

'Insatiable' is an explicit exploration of sexuality and desire, packed full of emotion and yearning. This book is truly filthy so I wouldn't recommend it if you don't usually like that sort of thing, although if you feel like you want to push your boundaries a little, this would be a good book to pick up and give a try.

I really adored the main character, Violet, she was funny and relatable and her character development throughout the book was amazing to witness. 'Insatiable' is a compelling novel and I definitely recommend you pick it up if you're looking for something a little different.

This novel is filthy and funny (but also sad and scary). It really captured what it's like for a young woman living in London in the 21st century who is trying to find her own way in the world. It's very much a Jilly Cooper for the modern age. It's not the type of novel that I could universally recommend to everyone I know, but for certain friends, they would love it.

A really solid addition to the millennial literary genre; with great writing and very dark, wry humour.. Would recommend if you know what you want from this sort of book, as it definitely delivers that. More Caroline O'Donoghue than Dolly Alderton - in a good way!

I’m generally a fan of Daisy Buchanan’s writing and this book is exactly as described, a real romp. However, it’s not for the faint-hearted! Thanks NetGalley for the chance to read this book.

This book didn't quite work for me as I failed to connect with the main character and her millennial angst. Hopefully, another reader will have a much better reading experience.

Achingly cool; fans of Dolly Alderton will love this one. Violet is an incredibly relatable narrator, and, at 28, doesn't exactly make the best decisions, but she's always looking for something better. I'm not usually a fan of books which explore non-monogamy (purely because I find myself falling into the trap of wanting two characters to end up together - this is entirely my own fault!) but this one did so in a really interesting way, and I'm definitely intrigued enough to try and break my own bias. All in all a good read, although probably not one to read on the bus.

"Insatiable" is an enjoyable erotic novel with lots of graphic sex scenes. If you're looking for erotica with a good plot behind it, this one's for you.

It was an interesting read. The main character is a bit naive and it's a bit predictable. Though, I found it still entertaining and addictive.
Thanks a lot to NG and the publisher for this copy.

I felt like this book was the pop culture little sister of Sally Rooney’s Conversations with Friends, and this isn’t a bad thing! I loved the references, I loved the characters, and I adored the flow of language throughout. What fell flat to me, and my reasoning for 4 stars and not 5, sits with my discomfort over how the bulimia in the story was handled, plus the flatness of the endgame romance. It kind of came out of nowhere for me, and I can’t believe a character who overthinks this much, who comes from a very traditional/conservative background, never takes the time to examine her newfound queerness. It’s accepted in a way that should feel great and progressive, but for me it just didn’t fit with what we know of the character. One final criticism: I feel like the arc of the main character is about her finding herself and making her own decisions, not getting swept up in the flow of everything around her (marriage... job... affair with married couple etc). She’s lost at sea through the novel, and I fully expected her to become fully actualised and make her own choices at the end. However this never really happens? Even her new job is pretty much given to her by the person she ends up with. Everything that happens in the novel is down to opportunities that land in her lap, and she’s mostly a passive participant throughout. But this didn’t detract from my overall enjoyment of the novel. It was a pleasure to read, incredibly vivid, and the voice of the narrator allowed me to be fully absorbed in her life.

This was such a fun read. The protagonist is a walking disaster but one you love and root for. It's sad, funny, shocking and wonderful.

Violet is feeling little lost until she meets Lottie and her husband Simon who bring her into their life filled with sex parties, and offer her a glamorous new job opportunity.

I’m sure you’ve seen the reviews of this by now, but yes it is definitely filled with a looot of explicit sex scenes, so if that’s not your thing I’d stay clear!

The relationships in this book are also very toxic, Violet is pretty soon sucked into a life that she’s struggling to handle and can’t quite tear herself away. There’s some plot points that go a bit deeper than your standard initial millennial contemporary fiction, and when it becomes clear why Simon and Lottie have invited Violet into their lives, you feel sympathy and hatred towards them all at the same time. The way Violet deals with these darker themes did add something to the story.

I didn’t really like any of the characters in this, they’re mostly all annoying, privileged and self obsessed, but that still makes for an interesting read!

Overall I’d give this 3.5 ⭐️

I got about 50 pages in and DNF-Ed because I’m such a mood reader and at the time of reading, I really wasn’t in the mood for smut.

It felt like fifty shades of grey meets a throuple. I don’t think erotica has to be sooo graphically described either. I think there’s a real charm to leaving things up to the imagination a little bit (I know that sort of defeats the point of erotica). I just felt like it was a bit excessive from what I did read.

It may get better once you get deeper into the story but yeah, I think I picked this book up at the wrong time.

A good debut novel from Daisy Buchanan. I love her non-fiction and journalistic writing but I felt this was too literary and slow-paced for me. Apart from the sex, which was far from 'fade to grey' a lot of context seemed to happen off-page and that affected my enjoyment somewhat. But I would happily read another book by Daisy Buchanan.

Insatiable follows 20-something Violet as she struggles through life. She doesn't have the job she wants, the home she wants, the partner she wants, the friends, the sex, the life. She's very relatable - Buchanan's description of her lacklustre ex-relationship, her constant worry about money whilst she's buying yet another dress, her sense of stagnation and hopelessness at work, will chime for 20- 40 year olds who feel like they should have their life together and don't. When she meets the glamorous Lottie and her husband, they become her stand ins for what she really wants - love, security, financial and social elevation, companionship, purpose. But the couple are not as perfect as they seem and we watch as Violet blindly follows a path that we can see is really not good for her.

There's lots to like in the book - a relatable, flawed, funny main character; bold sex scenes; a brilliantly captured growing sense of unease and tension. For me personally, the ending felt a bit didactic and forced and I felt I was suddenly reading the writer's manifesto on how to live - but I think it might appeal to readers after a clean ending with all the bows neatly tied up and explained. I think Violet appeals to different extents based on your personality. I wanted to shake her as she went careening down the path to her own destruction. There were moments when her decisions and rejections didn't feel very well explained or natural which was part of the reason why I didn't think the ending was as solid as the beginning or middle.

Violet is as close to a millenial Everywoman as I've read. It's a book very much of its time and I think the constant references to clothes and shoe designers, avocados and apps will either be something readers love or not enjoy. The writing was really fluid and easy to read and Violet had such a clear, real voice, it's not very difficult to let her lead you through the messiness of her life.

I loved this book! Such a fanstastic exploration of women, femininity, sexuality and relationships by Daisy Buchanan. I've already picked up another of her books!

It is RAUNCHY! And I love it. I gobbled it up in two evenings and enjoyed every moment of it.

It reminded me of being young and a bit naive in London, although my life was nowhere near as adventurous as the protagonist.

A great holiday read to escape from everyday life.

I have been a fan of Daisy Buchanan’s podcast You’re Booked for a long time, so I was keen to read her first novel. Insatiable follows Violet, a young woman who wants more and better – better friends, better sex, a better job – and she wants it now. It is a novel about female ambition, friendship and desire. You have to be prepared for a lot of explicit sex scenes going into this book (seriously, if you thought Bridgerton had a lot, you are in for a shock), many of which make for uncomfortable reading. It is an engaging read and a lot of fun at times, but it quickly turns much darker, covering emotional manipulation, abuse and disordered eating. We see Violet develop agency through the book but, for me, I felt like the book was missing something – perhaps a deeper exploration of why she is feeling the need for more. I also didn’t know what to make of the ending – it left me feeling like I hadn’t been let into how Violet was truly feeling. Whilst she might have been hiding from or been distracted from her true feelings, the ending just didn’t quite ring true for me. Despite all of that, a good read and one I sped through in just a few days.

Now, I'm not entirely sure how to rate this book, even though I very much felt like the book's title, in wanting to keep reading it.
Almost immediately I could not get enough of this book.
There is a lot of explicit sex in Insatiable but Daisy's writing the whole way through is relatable and well done.
I haven't read anything by Daisy Buchanan before but I will definitely be keeping an eye out for what she does next.
However, there were a few things that stopped me from giving it a higher rating.
I couldn't really sympathise with Violet as much as I would have liked to. At points she makes decisions that I, nor anyone that I know, would make, which is frustrating to read.
The same can be said for her thinking that there was ultimately going to be a job/career for her in amongst what was going on. You start to think can one person really be so naive. How can she love Lottie after meeting her about three times, was another question I had to ask.
This was a definite page turner with some seriously steamy, actually sexy/not cringey scenes and a protagonist in their twenties, unsure of where their life is heading.
Thank you to Netgalley for providing me with an advanced copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.