Thank you to Netgalley for access to an early release.

A story of female presenting superficiality or really the superficiality that society demands. Follow an unreliable narrator in a dual timeline in what is described as “American Psycho meets Devil Wears Prada”. I didn’t really find it as intense or grotesque as American Psycho though. About halfway through the book, I was trying to figure out where the so called body horror came into place. This felt more body horror nonexistent until like the last 5 percent

The author does a good job of telling details, using adjectives to their strength to play to the imaginative mind. Sometimes the thesaurus use was a little bit on the heavy side and came across a little pretentious (don’t say epidermis, you can just say skin). Expect more small detailed narratives that tends to move all over the place than a fully fledged story. Not bad, but I would have preferred a concise and focused story and the story never fully drew me in.

If you like this idea, I would recommend 2023’s Natural Beauty before this one.