Girl, Ultra-Processed - Amara Sage
Thank you thank you thank you to NetGalley and Faber for sending me (personally) an arc of Amara Sage's new book You may remember that in 2023 I read the author's debut novel (you can find my review here ) and liked it a lot. It was about a teenage girl who had grown up on the Internet and all the consequences of that. Here, we follow Saffron (amazing name btw) who is navigating the uncertainty of uni, evolving friendships and the hardships of finding love. Saffron feels like all her problems would probably resolve themselves if only she could lose weight. Knowing a little the author, I knew she would write about these themes with care and focus on self-acceptance and self-love. Needless to say, I was right. The journey for self-acceptance felt really fast (good for Saffron) to be realistic but maybe it's not as difficult as I think it is. The side characters are also well written, with a lot of nuance (for a while I wanted to hate her mother) and the love interest was a...