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The Loosening Skin
The Loosening Skin | Aliya Whiteley
5 posts | 3 read | 4 to read
In a world where people shed their skin every seven years, it's just a fact of life that we will cast of all the attachments of our old life. With every moult we become a new person, and though we can discard the past, the skin remembers, brings it all back if we touch it. And when our loves are part of us, those memories of love can be bought, if you know the right people. Introducing the new drug, Suscutin, that will prevent the moult. Now you can keep your skin forever. Now you never need to change who you are. But it's not so simple for celebrity bodyguard Rose Allington, who suffers from a rare disease. Her moults come quickly, changing everything about her life, who she is, who she loves. Meanwhile, her former client, superstar actor Max Black, is hooked on Suscutin, because he knows moulting could lose him everything. When one of his skins is stolen, and the theft is an inside job, he needs the best who ever worked for him on the job - even if she's no longer the same person. Because Max has a film to make about the Stuck Six, the world famous sextet of lovers, who share a perfect life. The Six have trusted him to tell the love story that captivated the world. The Loosening Skin peels away the layers of these stories, exploring our definitions of love, sex and friendship, and what it means to grow, and change.
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RamsFan1963
The Loosening Skin | Aliya Whiteley
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I am posting one book per day from my extensive to-be-read collection. No description or reason for wanting to read the book. Some are old and some will be new. Don't judge me - I have a lot of books.
Day 276

#tbrmountain #bookbuyingdiet

MarkoPDX Yipe, without looking up a synopsis, that could be a story about a horrible skin disease, or getting old. 3y
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Mitch
The Loosening Skin | Aliya Whiteley
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Some good ones here - as well as some fab cover art ! 👍🏼

https://bookmarks.reviews/seven-sff-books-to-soothe-your-february-blues/

Librariana The adopted daughter of Death?? Color me intrigued! 🤔😁😊 3y
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Angitron
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Panpan

Whitely has become a new favorite of mine - I absolutely LOVED The Beauty and Skein Island was also a great read. This book, however, fell flat for me. While the concept was fascinating (people shed their skins and with it their love disappears), the execution left me wanting. There‘s also an addition to the main story placed at the end, told from another character‘s point of view, which I found totally unnecessary. Interesting, but not for me.

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imyril
The Loosening Skin | Aliya Whiteley
Mehso-so

A haunting reflection on the transience of love and the ways in which we cling on. I found the first half fascinating - the little world building details, the painful character study - but was nonplussed by the second. I loved Whiteley‘s prose tho; will definitely watch out for future efforts.

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Tonton
The Loosening Skin | Aliya Whiteley
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Pickpick

Teetered between Pick and So-So, finally came down on the positive side. People‘s cells regenerate every seven years, as we know. In this world, people molt their entire skin at once, and slough off not just the physical, but the emotional as well. So it is perfectly normal to fall out of love or a get a new job, a new life. Some people can‘t stand the thought of losing their love; a new drug is created to stop the molting process. Intriguing for

Tonton ...the analysis of emotions, and artificial attempts to control how to love, compared to how love can go away/awry anyway, naturally. There‘s a switch in narrative voice midway, which was jarring; but necessary to the story. 5y
Reggie Sounds fascinating!! 5y
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