Friends Evie, Krista and Willow are muddling through life in New York and facing the usual dramas of a twenty something: corporate climbing, online dating and making rent.
When a chance encounter introduces Krista to the existence of Pretty, she can’t wait to share the news with her BFFs. Pretty is a magic tonic that with a single drop will make the girls drop dead gorgeous for one week. Presented with the opportunity to make their fantasies a reality the girls find it an offer they just can’t refuse.
But is being pretty all it’s cracked up to be?
I started this book thinking it had an interesting premise and hoping the author could do it justice. Unfortunately, she couldn’t!
Firstly, I must say this book nearly lost me as soon as the potion was taken and the girls started to lose control of their basic bodily functions. Regrettably I am the persistent type and carried on, dragging myself through every sorry chapter hoping against hope that it would get better.
The characters were so unlikable, in regular or pretty form, that I found it completely impossible to feel any empathy for them. Instead of using their new found glamour for good as I first suspected, their deeds became more ridiculous and shallow.
If you’re looking for an empowering, sisters are doing it for themselves novel with a warming moral keep looking because you won’t find that here.
** Thank you to Simon and Schuster, via NetGalley, for this ARC **