📖 BOOK REVIEW⠀📚
BOOK: Size Zero
AUTHOR: Abigail Mangin
@AbigailMangin
Publisher: Visage Books @visage_ny
Stars: ⭐⭐⭐
Published: July 12, 2020
As I write this, I want it to be known that I feel extremely bad for what I am about to say. I was so excited about reading this book, and so intrigued by the story line. But this book…. It’s dark ya’ll. Darker than I expected. I almost stopped reading many times because it was just so uncomfortable and horrifying.
It was a personal thing for me, because although it wasn’t quite a trigger warning (if you are triggered by the mistreatment of women, this is not your book) but it was very hard to read. I am not even sure I can stomach another book in the series, even though there was redemption in the end of this one.
After I read it and wrote most of this review, I got into a deep dive about certain goings on with certain nefarious people in the news (the name I will not say because it will give away some of the second half of the book). The real life comparison is dangerously accurate. And this makes it the scariest thing ever.
Again, if this sounds like something right up your alley, this is definitely one that will shock and scare you, and you will probably enjoy. But if not, I didn’t want to have it hit you unexpectedly.
You can see my video review here:
Small Summary:
Condom dresses and space helmets have debuted on fashion runways.
A dead body becomes the trend when a coat made of human skin saunters down fashion’s biggest stage. The body is identified as Annabelle Leigh, the teenager who famously disappeared over a decade ago from her boyfriend’s New York City mansion.
This new evidence casts suspicion back on the former boyfriend, Cecil LeClaire. Now a monk, he is forced to return to his dark and absurd childhood home to clear his name. He teams up with Ava Germaine, a renegade ex-model. And together, they investigate the depraved and lawless modeling industry behind Cecil’s family fortune.
They find erotic canes, pet rats living in crystal castles, and dresses made of crushed butterfly wings. But Cecil finds more truth in the luxury goods than in the people themselves. Everyone he meets seems to be wearing a person-suit. Terrified of showing their true selves, the glitterati put on flamboyant public personas to make money and friends. Can Cecil find truth in a world built on lies?
*****
I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own. Received from Netgalley.