Perfect for fans of You Shouldnt Have Come Here and None of This Is True Bodies to Die For is a brilliant psychological thriller that will have readers wondering whether the perfect body really is worth dying for ... Popular fitness influencer Gemma has transformed herself from a Before into an After complete with washboard abs thriving business and gorgeous husband. But social media can be deceiving. Offline the cutthroat world of bikini bodybuilding may just eat her alive. Thats if shes not first devoured by the secret nemesis that lurks beneath her polished surface waiting to destroy her. Software engineer Ashley is fat and frustrated. Frustrated with failed diets. With a world that wants her to shrink. With biased doctors online trolls and even her own mother. Until Ashley falls in with a mysterious and radical sect of Fat Activists who are fighting back ... by any means necessary. Shes never felt so alive so full of purpose. Shell do whatever it takes to ride this high destroy Diet Culture and win the approval of her charismatic leader. Gemma and Ashley are on a collision course headed for the Olympia the bodybuilding competition where futures are made. And lost. But when Gemmas toughest rival turns up dead and more fitness girls fall like dominoes its beginning to look like the body image war has gone too far. With breakneck pace and keen insights Bodies to Die For takes a hard look at social media the $70 billion diet industry and the war on womens bodies--the wars we wage with each other and with ourselves.
