Youthjuice
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A 29-year-old copywriter realizes that beauty is possible—at a terrible cost—in this surreal, satirical send-up of NYC It-girl culture.
From Sophia Bannion’s first day on the Storytelling team at HEBE, a luxury skincare/wellness company based in New York’s trendy SoHo neighborhood, it’s clear something is deeply amiss. But Sophia, pushing thirty, has plenty of skeletons in her closet next to the designer knockoffs and doesn’t care. Though she leads an outwardly charmed life, she aches for a deeper meaning to her flat existence—and a cure for her brutal nail-biting habit. She finds it all and more at HEBE, and with Tree Whitestone, HEBE’s charismatic founder and CEO.
Soon, Sophia is addicted to her HEBE lifestyle—especially youthjuice, the fatty, soothing moisturizer Tree has asked Sophia to test. But when cracks in HEBE’s infrastructure start to worsen—and Sophia learns the gruesome secret ingredient at the heart of youthjuice—she has to decide how far she’s willing to go to stay beautiful forever.
Glittering with ominous flashes of Sophia’s coming-of-rage story, former beauty editor E.K. Sathue’s horror debut is as incisive as it is stomach-churning in its portrayal of all-consuming female friendship and the beauty industry’s short attention span. youthjuice does to skincare influencers what Bret Easton Ellis did to yuppies. You’ll never moisturize the same way again.
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“American Psycho meets The Substance” heißt es als Beschreibung und die trifft es meiner Meinung nach ganz gut. Der Stil hat was spezielles an sich, was zu dem von American Psycho passt. Dieses Buch hat eine faszinierende Prämisse und fängt wirklich gut an. Das erste Drittel hatte mich total im Bann, aber im weiteren Verlauf hat es es ziemlich nachgelassen. Die Flashbacks erklären und untermauern den Charakter der Protagonist ziemlich gut, aber irgendwie auch nicht mehr. Alles in allem ein Buch, dass zumindest ich schnell vergessen werde. Aber interessant wars trotzdem. So ein Mittelding halt. 🌸
Description
A 29-year-old copywriter realizes that beauty is possible—at a terrible cost—in this surreal, satirical send-up of NYC It-girl culture.
From Sophia Bannion’s first day on the Storytelling team at HEBE, a luxury skincare/wellness company based in New York’s trendy SoHo neighborhood, it’s clear something is deeply amiss. But Sophia, pushing thirty, has plenty of skeletons in her closet next to the designer knockoffs and doesn’t care. Though she leads an outwardly charmed life, she aches for a deeper meaning to her flat existence—and a cure for her brutal nail-biting habit. She finds it all and more at HEBE, and with Tree Whitestone, HEBE’s charismatic founder and CEO.
Soon, Sophia is addicted to her HEBE lifestyle—especially youthjuice, the fatty, soothing moisturizer Tree has asked Sophia to test. But when cracks in HEBE’s infrastructure start to worsen—and Sophia learns the gruesome secret ingredient at the heart of youthjuice—she has to decide how far she’s willing to go to stay beautiful forever.
Glittering with ominous flashes of Sophia’s coming-of-rage story, former beauty editor E.K. Sathue’s horror debut is as incisive as it is stomach-churning in its portrayal of all-consuming female friendship and the beauty industry’s short attention span. youthjuice does to skincare influencers what Bret Easton Ellis did to yuppies. You’ll never moisturize the same way again.
Book Information
Posts
“American Psycho meets The Substance” heißt es als Beschreibung und die trifft es meiner Meinung nach ganz gut. Der Stil hat was spezielles an sich, was zu dem von American Psycho passt. Dieses Buch hat eine faszinierende Prämisse und fängt wirklich gut an. Das erste Drittel hatte mich total im Bann, aber im weiteren Verlauf hat es es ziemlich nachgelassen. Die Flashbacks erklären und untermauern den Charakter der Protagonist ziemlich gut, aber irgendwie auch nicht mehr. Alles in allem ein Buch, dass zumindest ich schnell vergessen werde. Aber interessant wars trotzdem. So ein Mittelding halt. 🌸