Jacob Shymanski

to say the least.

And it gets progressively more unhinged the further you go.

The first half of the book serves as an excellent hook.

Like once you get halfway through the book, you're like, well, I'm going to finish this thing.

There's no way I'm not finishing it.

And then you continue throughout and it gets...

disgusting and creepy and unhinged and even the main character is completely bonkers the entire book is super readable and the author lian zhang herself had a background being an instagram influencer for like skincare when she was younger and so a lot of like the concepts and how influencing works it actually goes really in depth here and it was fascinating and it's she's

She very much makes fun of the whole culture.

It's satire.

It's super fun.

Very modern too.

Something I think a lot of millennials and Gen Z are going to appreciate.

So that wraps up round one.

Let's move on to round two.

So this next round, we're doing our favorite discovered books.

It doesn't matter what year this came out in.

The only rule is that you read it in 2025.

Ramya, your turn.

Easy pick.

I find fiction is better at explaining tricky concepts like survivor's guilt than it would be in like a nonfiction, for example.