Review: Marie Gets Under Your Skin
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 02 3, 2014
Safranek has done something fresh with Marie.  While Marie is certainly a nasty little tale of horror, this story is much more about the pure transparency with which it was written.  Our hero is not a politically correct “plus-sized” woman, she is, plain and simple, a fat lady.  Rolls of sensuous fat jiggling for the masses.Marie loves herself, fat and all, and delights in the effect she has on men and women alike.And we can’t help but love her.  In polite society, we are not supposed to honor obesity.  But polite society be damned—Marie captures our hearts.  Just as she captures the hatred and envy of the antagonist in the story.Safranek turns our perception of beauty on its head and makes us look dead in the eyes of those we would like to ignore.Marie is a simple story, simply told and delivered.  It is heart-breaking honesty at its best.  Our suspension of disbelief may be strained in regards to the manner in which our hero is brutalized, but it doesn’t matter.  We believe in Marie.And I believe in Lori Safranek, and am very much looking forward to more from this author.