Skin Deep by Sung J. Woo, 324 pages
After Korean American Siobhan O'Brien (she's adopted) unexpectedly inherits the private eye business where she's been apprenticing, she's a bit uncertain about how to proceed without her mentor. But when a friend from her past shows up seeking Siobhan's help tracking down her college-age daughter, Siobhan is on the case and up to her eyeballs in higher education, secretive feminist activist groups, a cutthroat beauty industry, and, oddly enough, a hippie-esque yoga retreat. All of them tie together somehow, right?
Siobhan is a great character, and several of the elements of this story were intriguing. But with so many disparate things thrown together, it was a bit hard to follow the thread of the plot. I feel like a few of the elements could have been edited out, and the romantic side-plot toned WAY down, and it would've been a better story. Not bad, just not the best.
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