That’s an extremely generous, biased way to describe what happened. To say nothing of the worldbuilding holes: bodily fluids are The Most Disgusting TM, but the glitterati like sex? Um. There’s some interesting worldbuilding, like the way glitterati communicate through body language rather than facial expressions (which might damage their makeup or, horror, cause wrinkles!), but there’s not enough of it to keep me reading past the first third of the book. I thought that Langmead might compensate with lovely prose, or by going wildly imaginative (and hopefully descriptive) with all the fashion stuff, but he doesn’t.
That’s not even the tiniest bit interesting. Simone is an airhead in the most extreme definition of the word, and also gross and stupid and horrible. But by definition then, we don’t give a damn about him being upstaged, or having his trend stolen – there’s absolutely nothing to make the reader attached to him, and that’s more an effect of the vapidity than the despicability, because despicable characters can be interesting, even weirdly likable if they’re also funny or acting on feelings we all have but most of us repress. The problem with Glitterati is that it does one thing very well – making its MC vapid and contemptable, even despicable. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review. I received this book for free from the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. A fabulous dystopian fable about fashion, family and the feckless billionaire class. Soon their rivalry threatens to raze their opulent utopia to the ground, as no one knows how to be vicious like the beautiful ones.Įnter a world of the most fantastic costumes, grand palaces in the sky, the grandest parties known to mankind and the unbreakable rules of how to eat ice cream. When Simone accidentally starts a new fashion with a nosebleed at a party, another Glitterati takes the credit. To be anything else is to be unfashionable, and no one wants to be unfashionable, or even worse, ugly… Slave to the ever-changing tides – and brutal judgements - of fashion, he is immaculate. Simone is one of the Glitterati, the elite living lives of luxury and leisure.
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