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Rouge

De : Mona Awad
Lu par : Sophie Amoss
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A National Bestseller
A USA TODAY Bestseller
A New York Times Editors’ Choice
A Goodreads Choice Award Finalist
Named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post, Good Housekeeping, Electric Literature, Tor,and Literary Hub

From the critically acclaimed author of Bunny comes a “Grimm Brothers fairy tale for the modern age” (Good Housekeeping) and “darkly funny horror novel” (NYLON) about a lonely young woman who’s drawn to a cult-like spa in the wake of her mother’s mysterious death. “Surreal, scary and deeply moving—like all the best fairy tales” (People).

A Most Anticipated Book of 2023 by Time, Vogue, The Guardian, Goodreads, Bustle, The Millions, LitHub, Tor, Good Housekeeping, and more!

For as long as she can remember, Belle has been insidiously obsessed with her skin and skincare videos. When her estranged mother Noelle mysteriously dies, Belle finds herself back in Southern California, dealing with her mother’s considerable debts and grappling with lingering questions about her death. The stakes escalate when a strange woman in red appears at the funeral, offering a tantalizing clue about her mother’s demise, followed by a cryptic video about a transformative spa experience. With the help of a pair of red shoes, Belle is lured into the barbed embrace of La Maison de Méduse, the same lavish, culty spa to which her mother was devoted. There, Belle discovers the frightening secret behind her (and her mother’s) obsession with the mirror—and the great shimmering depths (and demons) that lurk on the other side of the glass.

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. Fiction Horreur Psychologie
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I loved this book, as a dreamy french girl with a foot in fashion, witchcraft and an interest in dark fairytales enlightening the terrible nature of human’ s psychology, it was perfect.I loved its glamorous horrific atsmosphere, its fragility and vulnerability, the depictions of poetic moon bright and bloody red ghostly landscapes… it is a somewhat superficial yet intellectual intimate story, twisted and angelic, harsh and fantastical, it deals with topics that are sensitive and taboo such as once reflexion in the mirror/the memories underneath your envelop blurring your understanding and interpretation of what you are… it Reminded of movies like the love witch, the neon demon, 70s and 2000`s hyperfeminine toxic poetic surrealist and visceral works of art, I strongly ad vise you to read it

The quality of the narrator and the dream,like quality of the book

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Armed with a wonderful prose and a biting sense of humor, Mona Awad explores the darkest places, but doesn't stay there. Whatever happens, she'll see her story and its characters through, and stir them towards brighter horizons.
Sophia Amoss is Awad's perfect voice to me - even though she could improve her French accent and pronunciation ;)

Peak contemporary magical realism

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