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A review by nlwisz
Astrid Sees All by Natalie Standiford
5.0
New York City, where all things are possible and where life can be everything you dream of, if only you can make it. In Astrid Sees All, Maryland transplant Phoebe is immediately starstruck by college classmate Carmen—a cool, edgy New Yorker with a penchant for living on the wild side. Phoebe’s association with Carmen soon gives her a taste of "the golden world,” and she can't look back.
What follows is a dark and captivating narrative of the girls' post-college year as they navigate the seedy underbelly of NYC and the glitzy, bizarre club scene of the 1980s. Phoebe is naive and hopeful, an impressionable social climber toting a strong case of impostor syndrome. Along with the magnetic and troubled Carmen, the pair soon find themselves rubbing elbows with the It Crowd—but what you do is never as important as who you know.
Astrid Sees All is a fresh, wild take on the “down-on-her-luck girl reinvents herself” story. You’ll be hooked from beginning to end.
TW: heavy drug abuse, sexual abuse
Thank you to Library Journal and the publisher for providing me with an ARC in exchange for an honest review.
What follows is a dark and captivating narrative of the girls' post-college year as they navigate the seedy underbelly of NYC and the glitzy, bizarre club scene of the 1980s. Phoebe is naive and hopeful, an impressionable social climber toting a strong case of impostor syndrome. Along with the magnetic and troubled Carmen, the pair soon find themselves rubbing elbows with the It Crowd—but what you do is never as important as who you know.
Astrid Sees All is a fresh, wild take on the “down-on-her-luck girl reinvents herself” story. You’ll be hooked from beginning to end.
TW: heavy drug abuse, sexual abuse
Thank you to Library Journal and the publisher for providing me with an ARC in exchange for an honest review.