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youthjuice
youthjuice | E.K. Sathue
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American Psycho meets The Devil Wears Prada: outrageous body horror for the goop generation A 29-year-old copywriter realizes that beauty is possibleat a terrible costin this surreal, satirical send-up of NYC It-girl culture. From Sophia Bannions first day on the Storytelling team at HEBE, a luxury skincare/wellness company based in New Yorks trendy SoHo neighborhood, its clear something is deeply amiss. But Sophia, pushing thirty, has plenty of skeletons in her closet next to the designer knockoffs and doesnt care. Though she leads an outwardly charmed life, she aches for a deeper meaning to her flat existenceand a cure for her brutal nail-biting habit. She finds it all and more at HEBE, and with Tree Whitestone, HEBEs charismatic founder and CEO. Soon, Sophia is addicted to her HEBE lifestyleespecially youthjuice, the fatty, soothing moisturizer Tree has asked Sophia to test. But when cracks in HEBEs infrastructure start to worsenand Sophia learns the gruesome secret ingredient at the heart of youthjuiceshe has to decide how far shes willing to go to stay beautiful forever. Glittering with ominous flashes of Sophias coming-of-rage story, former beauty editor E.K. Sathues horror debut is as incisive as it is stomach-churning in its portrayal of all-consuming female friendship and the beauty industrys short attention span. youthjuice does to skincare influencers what Bret Easton Ellis did to yuppies. Youll never moisturize the same way again.
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Twainy
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Oh boy this one was fun!! It‘s dark! Creepy! And somewhat prescient! I loved it! It‘s an absurd love letter to the beauty industry! The lengths people will go to remain young looking! It‘s short! It‘s funny! Its dark humor will make you squeal with delight!

Sophia is convinced to try this youth enhancing moisturizer and finds herself addicted! What‘s Youth Juice‘s secret ingredient? Does she care? LOL Great audio!!

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️1/3

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Chelsea.Poole
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Is “beauty-horror” a sub-genre? This was an entertaining audio but not particularly memorable, since I read this several books ago and forgot to review it, I can confirm this.

Beauty obsessed women at a beauty company (goop-like?) are desperately seeking the next treatment to keep them looking youthful. How do they manage it? And what‘s up with all the interns coming and going?

Ruthiella Seems like it could be a sub-genre what with Mona Awad‘s Rouge and 3mo
The_Book_Ninja I went cinema last weekend and saw a trailer for Demi Moore‘s new film…looks like “Beauty Horror” so it must be a thing. I also remember my daughter reading a book called the Uglies which sounded like it might fit this genre 3mo
Suet624 I‘ve never worn any makeup (never knew how) and have reached that age where I know that despite my bags and wrinkles it‘s the best I‘m going to look. Each day from now on I‘ll just get another wrinkle. 😊 I‘m cool with that. 3mo
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heyitsMacall
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Omggggg this book was a ride. A little mystery, a little suspense, a little gore, and a realistic world that I could easily visualize. Still gives me the heebie jeebies

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Megabooks
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Some tropes just work for me, and one is the dark and menacing start up. I enjoyed this horror title about a Glossier-type company that will go to any lengths to develop their newest product—youthjuice. There were darkly funny Weekend At Bernie‘s-type scenes that worked for me, too. Loved that movie when I was a kid!

sarahbarnes Yes!! 5mo
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