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A review by dfwsusie
We Could Be Beautiful by Swan Huntley
4.0
3.75 Stars.
Call it the GoneGirlsOnATrain effect. As of late, it has been wildly popular to present female characters that are detestable, sociopathic or evil. When I started "We Could Be Beautiful" I thought I would hate the main character, Catherine, because it would be a rehash of "Luckiest Girl Alive", a book I wanted to burn I disliked the female protagonist so much. I didn't end up feeling that way at all here.
This is by no means a perfect book, and it is not a thriller as often described. But I found that in spite of that I enjoyed it and whipped through in two days. If it was meant to be more thrilling or mysterious, I knew from a 1/4 of the way through where it was going. But I found myself growing to empathize with this character. She didn't atrophy, she grew...but not too much that it wasn't believable.
Call it the GoneGirlsOnATrain effect. As of late, it has been wildly popular to present female characters that are detestable, sociopathic or evil. When I started "We Could Be Beautiful" I thought I would hate the main character, Catherine, because it would be a rehash of "Luckiest Girl Alive", a book I wanted to burn I disliked the female protagonist so much. I didn't end up feeling that way at all here.
This is by no means a perfect book, and it is not a thriller as often described. But I found that in spite of that I enjoyed it and whipped through in two days. If it was meant to be more thrilling or mysterious, I knew from a 1/4 of the way through where it was going. But I found myself growing to empathize with this character. She didn't atrophy, she grew...but not too much that it wasn't believable.