Erasing the Past by Geri Dreiling
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

What is in a person’s appearance? In todays society, we place more and more emphasis on unattainable beauty standards. In this novel, we get treated to a love story between a chemist, Joe Holly and his wife Kate Taylor, whom he met in college. Thirty years later, she is feeling the pressure to stay young and beautiful and expresses her desires for plastic surgery. Joe doesn’t agree as he sees her still as the fresh faced, beauty he fell in love with. In an attempt to please her, he starts working on a new cream that will reverse all visible signs of aging, but he runs into some major complications.
This was interesting, it really made me consider all the deeper ramifications of the beauty standards we have nowadays and how it affects our subconsciousness. The story jumps between present day and the past, so that format might bother some people. The pacing was well done and there was plenty of drama throughout.


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