Rouge

✨ Tom Cruise ✨

Edit: okay, actual review!

“Grief is a journey, and everyone has their own way, you know?”

Rogue by Mona Awad is a psychological thriller about complicated parental relationships (mother-daughter one to be precise) and the struggle with high beauty standards. The only reasons I picked this book up was because I loved Bunny despite all its weirdness and I wanted to experience it again. 

Rouge was weird, it did not disappoint me on that front but the writing felt a little repetitive and it really does not feel like the length of the book is justified, even though the book isn't very long at all. I enjoyed it, but it wasn't really gripping me the same way as Bunny had. However, I liked the ending and the way the book wrapped up. The conclusion to the relationship Belle has with her mother was absolutely beautiful and made me feel things (ew) which is very rare. The last 20 pages solidified Rouge as a 4 star for me and made it worth pulling thru even though at times I lost interest. Funny how sometimes the ending truly makes or breaks a book! I am definitely going to be coming back to this book and I hope to one day annotate it properly.