Good for people who like: body horror, Severance by Ling Ma, poking fun at Gwyneth Paltrow Advika and the Hollywood Wives by Kirthana Ramisetti This book is embedded in my brain and I can’t wait to see what Huang does next. At its heart is the mystery of what’s really happening at Holistik and we’re just along for the ride. But this novel is as poignant as it is absurd, skewering the beauty/wellness industry with a darkly funny sharpness. Huang excels in the details, inventing bonkers creams and procedures involving everything from jellyfish to farmed spider silk. She becomes close with Helen, the eccentric CEO’s niece, and starts to notice some very weird things happening at her new workplace. Instead, she ends up working at Holistik, a Goop-esque wellness brand that specializes in experimental beauty treatments for the wealthy. This is a scathing and unputdownable debut about a former piano prodigy who abandons her future after her parents’ tragic accident.
Not fantasy, but definitely worth mentioning as potentially one of my favorite books this year. But lately I’ve been on a fantasy kick and have some amazing recommendations to share. So, I spent the last few years lost in a lot of literary and contemporary fiction, but the itch for a good fantasy book lingered like an itch in the middle of your back you can’t quite reach. I dabbled in adult versions, but the genre felt over-saturated by male authors or just not that well written. I clung to my YA SFF books for as long as I could, but eventually they began to feel 1) too young for me, 2) not always well-written, and 3) too similar to each other. You probably could have even gotten me to admit that I would have made a great (reluctant, but not really) leader of a dystopian revolution. I wanted to fall into a secret world where magic actually exists! I would have killed to meet a 300-year-old faerie who fell in love with me and made me his queen.
I grew up with my nose lost in fantasy and sci-fi books, chasing the teenage high of storylines I secretly hoped happened to me. I’ve always been a mood reader, and lately I’ve been in the mood for fantasy.
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