A review by heykellyjensen
Natural Beauty by Ling Ling Huang

For readers who love dark, body-focused horror, this book is going to tick every box. The protagonist–not named, but we know is of Asian American heritage–has just left a life of performing piano after a tragic accident harmed both her mother and father. They had taught her the instrument and helped her become top-of-the-game, but now she's roiled in guilt. She's found quickly after by someone who offers her a job at a natural beauty store, Holistik. But this isn't your "average" natural beauty store. It is a front for something much more sinister and damaging, and not everyone in this story will make it to the end alive.

Fast paced, compelling, and stomach-churning, this is a book about identity, about bodily autonomy–especially for women and women of color–, and it is about the lengths some will go in order to help save the ones they love the most. This one is not for the faint of heart.