Alden Barron’s Reviews > Beauty Queens > Status Update

I’ve never seen a book go from a 5/5 to a 2/5 so quickly.

The first like 70 pages of this were absolute gold. Easily the funniest book I’ve read up to that point. Then they threw in a chapter that, I think, was supposed to be politically genuine instead of the satire that had defined the book up to that point. It felt like pandering and y’all know I feel about pandering. Here’s to hoping that chapter was the worst of it.