Review: Beauty Queens by Libba Bray
I thoroughly enjoyed this book, which to be honest was a little unexpected. I have been so unfortunate to read a lot of books I didn’t really like lately, and I was afraid this would be another one, but I was happily surprised. I mean, it’s not stellar, but I enjoyed it more than so many other books. I assumed this would be a book about the girls of a beauty pageant and their trials within this pageant. And it was! Kind of. But it was so much more than that too! It starts with the plane carrying the girls crashing on a desert island. Now they have to learn how to survive on the island using only their very mixed skills and whatever they can salvage from their luggage of beauty supplies and evening gowns. The reader, however, soon finds out that they are not alone on the island. There is a super secret compound manned by soldiers and scientists working for The Corporation. The very same corporation that sponsors the beauty pageant. Secret and shady things are going on on ...