Natural Beauty

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.

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 haven't had a 5 star read in sooooo long and this was a 5 star 40% through. there was a twist right before the midway point that had me shook and it went exactly the way i wanted it to. originally, i was only a little interested in this because it was a contender for the goodreads choice awards but i'm so glad i picked it up! it gets so weird and reminds me a lot of bunny, in the sense that fucked up things are happening around the main character and she doesn't think much about it and it goes WILD