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A review by debi_g
We Could Be Beautiful by Swan Huntley
3.0
Not entirely literary, not exactly suspenseful, not fully captivating, and not a thriller as promised. This book defies simple categorization. It is competently, even ponstakingly, written, but reading experience is fairly joyless throughout the novel's representation of wealth's tedium.
Swan Huntley's novel offers reasons aplenty to pity the 1%. Is it true, or is it an ugly, bitter hope of those who struggle: sad, thin, rich women have dismal inner lives and lack true friendships.
The book can be summed up thusly: "Mirrors reminded me that it was what I was on the outside that counted. I wasn't transparent. I was real, solid, pretty. If Infelt like a mess, nobody had to know that but me" (203).
The repeated misuse of the word "nauseous" nearly cost this book a star.
Swan Huntley's novel offers reasons aplenty to pity the 1%. Is it true, or is it an ugly, bitter hope of those who struggle: sad, thin, rich women have dismal inner lives and lack true friendships.
The book can be summed up thusly: "Mirrors reminded me that it was what I was on the outside that counted. I wasn't transparent. I was real, solid, pretty. If Infelt like a mess, nobody had to know that but me" (203).
The repeated misuse of the word "nauseous" nearly cost this book a star.