A review by everie
Natural Beauty by Ling Ling Huang

dark emotional tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

Not bad, a pretty good

sci fi?

thriller. The narrator has a fairly strong voice. I think the world it created couldn't carry it through to the very end, but interesting 

Everything with her parents and piano school was tough to read (complimentary). The climax of that section (

the narrator feeling shame for using her stipend to fit in with privileged rich jerks -> her parents' accident and later deaths :( )

hit harder emotionally than the actual ending, though her

friends' deaths were also awful and awfully effective.