Monday, December 28, 2020

Skin Deep

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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