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A review by zillanovikov
Mewing by Chloe Spencer
challenging
dark
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
"Better for a beautiful woman to be terrifying than terrorized, she decided." In Mewing, those are the only options available, and everyone is beautiful.
I have a notoriously low tolerence for gore or body grossness, and I found myself squinting during reading this book, unwilling to look away despite the squelching of my gut. I think Margo would have approved of my body's response, that strange mix of fascination and revulsion, beauty and horror, seduced and repelled in equal measure. I'm certain the thing in the basement would have approved.
Mewing's gender politics are as visceral as its characters. Beauty is a standard created by and for men, but women are the ones best at making each other bleed. There's hardly a man in sight--I can't recall a single line uttered by a human male character--as women destroy and reconstruct each other for fleeting moments of validation. Men may hold ultimate power, but it's women who enforce it.
Steel your stomach, and read this book.
I have a notoriously low tolerence for gore or body grossness, and I found myself squinting during reading this book, unwilling to look away despite the squelching of my gut. I think Margo would have approved of my body's response, that strange mix of fascination and revulsion, beauty and horror, seduced and repelled in equal measure. I'm certain the thing in the basement would have approved.
Mewing's gender politics are as visceral as its characters. Beauty is a standard created by and for men, but women are the ones best at making each other bleed. There's hardly a man in sight--I can't recall a single line uttered by a human male character--as women destroy and reconstruct each other for fleeting moments of validation. Men may hold ultimate power, but it's women who enforce it.
Steel your stomach, and read this book.