A review by romethegreenwood
You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine by Alexandra Kleeman

3.75

I can't quite work out how I felt about this. I think maybe it would have worked better as a horror novel, but as it stands it could have benefitted from some finetuning. The first fifty percent or so was rather meandering, and I thought it was meant to be a character study, and an interesting commentary on advertising, the body, and relationships. However, then a plot appeared around the 60% mark, in which the protagonist gets sucked into the cult. I really liked little aspects of this book, like the Wally's, where employees are not allowed to direct you to the product you want, but rather to other products that you should also buy. However, it just felt a bit directionless overall - maybe it was trying to do too many things at once. I would've liked to see the plotline about the roommate attempting to become a twin of the protagonist come to fruition with much more detail and creepiness, or more about where the boyfriend was off to. I did enjoy the lack of names, though, as I've been thinking lately about unnamed protagonists and this took that to a whole new level. Overall, it was good, but not as much as I was hoping it could be.