A review by storytold
Natural Beauty by Ling Ling Huang

4.25

Fantastic effort, well plotted, genuinely great horror. But I felt kept at arm's length for the whole book for reasons more than simple narrative. The fragmentary nature of the narration meant I sometimes had trouble connecting the events, understanding how we got from one place to another. I needed more information about the Gunk's, for example, wanted more interiority to explain our protag's agency and to contextualize its limitations. But overall fantastic, especially for a debut. Would like to reread in a couple years.