Simone is one of the Glitterati, the elite living lives of luxury and leisure. Slave to the ever-changing tides - and brutal judgements - of fashion, he is immaculate. To be anything else is to be unfashionable, and no one wants to be unfashionable, or even worse, ugly...
When Simone accidentally starts a new fashion with a nosebleed at a party, another Glitterati takes the credit. Soon their rivalry threatens to raze their opulent utopia to the ground, as no one knows how to be vicious like the beautiful ones.
Enter 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. A fabulous dystopian fable about fashion, family and the feckless billionaire class.
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Wednesday. Or was it Tuesday?
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(@TitanBooks, 17 May 2022, ebook, 288 pages, copy from the publisher via # NetGalley)
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I really enjoyed Glitterati. It's a strange sort of book. In a good way. There is a vain ridiculousness to it, to the lives of the wealthy, beautiful people who have no concept of the real world, safely cocooned and pampered in their mansions. The book is laced with satire and there are some very funny moments especially when Simone and Justine become rivals. There are some dark moments as well when Simone is accused of a crime and discovers the truth about the not-so-perfect world he inhabits. This is a lot of fun. I'd recommend it.
