Week 47 Review: Gorgeous Gruesome Faces

From Goodreads:

Yellowjackets meets She Is a Haunting in this debut speculative thriller that follows a disgraced teen idol who comes face-to-face with the demons of her past in a glittering, cutthroat K-pop competition.

After a shocking scandal that abruptly ended her teen popstar career, eighteen-year-old Sunny Lee spends her days longing for her former life and cyberstalking her ex-BFF and groupmate, Candie. The two were once inseparable, but that was then—before the tragedy and heartache they left in their wake.

In the here and now, Sunny is surprised to discover that Candie is attending a new K-pop workshop in her hometown. Candie might be there chasing stardom, but Sunny can't resist the chance to join her and finally confront their traumatic history. Because she still can't figure out what happened that horrible night when Mina, the third in their tight-knit trio, jumped to her death. Or if the dark and otherworldly secrets she and Candie were keeping had something to do with it . . .

But the workshop doesn't bring the answers Sunny had hoped for, nor a happy reunion with Candie. Instead, Sunny finds herself haunted by ghostly visions while strange injuries start happening to her competitors—followed by even stranger mutilations to their bodies. In her race to survive, Sunny will have to expose just who is behind the carnage—and if Candie is out for blood once more—in Linda Cheng's spellbinding sapphic thriller that will have readers screaming and swooning for more.

My Review:
This was such a great read! I just wanted to know what was going on, and there kept having these creepy occurrences, and I couldn't get enough! K-Pop and Idols are making their way into Western culture, and I can't get enough! 

We go back and forth between the past when the group was together, and the present, when Mina is dead, and Sunny has left the world after a cheating scandal, and is trying to get answers about Mina, from Candie. I loved watching the story unfold!

We know from the beginning that there was a cheating scandal. Since I was listening to this on audiobook, I didn't take the time to go back, but my first thought was the guy that Sunny was cheating with, was dating Candie. I'm glad that wasn't the case, but I was still anxious about the whole situation, because there was so many ways it could go wrong, even if it was in the past.

It really was creepy and atmospheric, as these girls are competing so hard and putting all this energy into winning, while trying to find out what was going on with these incidents. I'm so sorry all of these girls, including the Maiden, had to go through that, and I can't wait to see where the sequel goes! 

This was such a great read and I can't wait for the sequel! 

Author: Linda Cheng
Series: Gorgeous Gruesome Faces #1
Read: November 22nd, 2023
Source: NetGalley 
Reason Why: Sounded really great, and it's a DAC Book, Prequel & Sequel Challenge 2023 Book and a WoW Book!
Publisher: Macmillan Young Listeners
Published: November 7th 2023

5/5 Hearts

5/5 Books

5/5 Stars