Laura Hoffman Brauman's Reviews > The God of Good Looks

After a huge scandal about her affair with a powerful man, Bianca Bridge seemingly loses everything - her job, her sense of self, her reputation. A series of events lead to her working for Obadiah Cortland at his beauty business, OC. In addition to make up artist services and classes and beauty products, OC publishes a not so impressive magazine, Extempo. Bianca is hired to produce the content for the magazine - and her skill is impressive. While working for Obadiah might not be an ideal experience, Bianca is very good at what she does and her success at OC and with Extempo changes the trajectory of her story. McIvor does an excellent job of blending some romance, some revenge, and some family drama with a healthy amount of social critique that gets you thinking. There is a lot in here about ideas of beauty as well as ideas about how we create the image we put out to the world. While I enjoyed the enemies to lovers trope for the romance side of things, it was the substance around how we perceive beauty and worth along with the discussion about how power impacts relationships that really stood out to me. I was cheering for Bianca from the beginning of the book, by the end I was cheering for Obadiah too.