Natural Beauty

2.5/5

I was pretty disappointed by this one. The writing was weird in that so many times sentences would hop so quickly from one thing happening at one moment to something happening literally the next day. I'm just also not really into the kind of horror that makes up this book, which I really didn't know the specifics before reading. Not a bad book, just not for me.

I started this a while back and put it down because it wasn't the right time, but I could t stop thinking about it. So I picked it up again. I liked that the horror was related to an obsession with beauty, bodies, and organic ingredients. The body horror and capitalism to an extreme were really well done. Some of the sexual stuff was weird and didn't add anything to the story to me. The ending visuals of the narrator will stay with me. I'm glad I came back to this one.

What, and I say this with all the intensity and fervor I can, the fuck.

If it wasn't so late in the year, if I weren't just barely keeping up with my Goodreads goal, this would've been a DNF almost immediately. Instead I said fuck it, let's see where this goes.

A weird body horror sex cult/human testing facility posing as a holistic makeup brand owned by a pedophile and managed by a woman nursing a monkey and who replaces her eyes with diamonds, is where it went.

The sacrifices I make for my Goodreads goal.

Sapphic body horror that explores the beauty industry, music, and what it's like being Asian American. Would recommend!

well jesus fucking christ

I loved this. Our unnamed narrator gets deeper into the biz and discovers surprises.
I could not put this down. Fantastic!