Et cetera : What we're reading: Rogue

'Rouge' by Mona Awad is my latest strange gem I've found on the @libby.app! Fans of the movie 'Death Becomes Her' will instantly love this dark read; it dives deep into the beauty industry and the relationship between mothers and daughters when the daughter always feels like the ugly duckling.

"Snow White meets Eyes Wide Shut in this surreal descent into the dark side of beauty, envy, grief, and the complicated love between mothers and daughters. With black humor and seductive horror, Rouge explores the cult-like nature of the beauty industry-as well as the danger of internalizing its pitiless gaze. Brimming with California sunshine and blood-red rose petals, 'Rouge' holds up a warped mirror to our relationship with mortality, our collective fixation with the surface, and the wondrous, deep longing that might lie beneath." ~Goodreads.com (3.54 rating)

Happy reading, friends!