Rouge

Rouge

2023 • 384 pages

Ratings61

Average rating3.9

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Snow White? More like Snow Whaaaaaaaat!?, amirite.This is the second [a:Mona Awad 7104825 Mona Awad https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1680614278p2/7104825.jpg] book I've read, and while I can tell from reading other reviews that they're certainly not for everyone, they're absolutely for me. After [b:Bunny 53285047 Bunny Mona Awad https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1588043687l/53285047.SX50.jpg 58221942] and now Rouge, Awad is officially one of my Favorite Authors of All Time™, and I'm gonna track down all of her other books. It's neither fantasy nor science-fiction, but rather a cuckoo-bananas modern fairy tale about vanity and loneliness, envy and Otherness, grief and family. It has that same unsettling horror baked into it that all of the best fairy tales have, and I loved every moment of it. It goes so far into the Depth (

November 12, 2023