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Flawless by Lara Chapman

My rating: 3 of 5 stars


Ok, here we go.
You know, you wouldn't think that Sarah, the main character... Scartch that. I like to treat someone as the person he/she is, regardless if they exist only on the author's imagination. Imagination is a world on itself.
Sara, beautiful Sara Burke, like every other teenager, american teenager, likes first days just because of what they mean. A new day to reinvent yourself, new chances. But, and there is a big but, like in everything that looks great but not quite right. Her nose its's, well, big. Told you, there was a big but. I don't think she would care that much but with a mother like that who wouldn't give it a second thought? Gladly, her best friend, Kristen, supports and encourages her self-confidence.
Quoting, "An Adonis has arrived and I'm here to worship him." Like Sarah said, Rockford Conway arrived to absolutely shake her world. Perfect Rock. Uneven teeth Rock. Beautiful Rock. But I'm not sure if putting them in that same category as "beautiful with a minor defect" helps the story. It just looks childish, to put it in a way, to me, at least.
The connection you can almost feel between Sarah and Rock is unnerving, one moment you're thinking "Yes! It doesn't matter that she has an unusual nose. He likes her!" and the next "Of course. the perfect-looking friend is the one he likes Likes." Ugh. C'est la vie.
But here comes what sets off the story for us. Sarah likes Rock more by the second, he is absolutely perfect for her, both being literature experts. But does Kristen too. And the thing is, she is not a lit fan, at all. So Kristen needs and successfully reclutes Sarah's help to conquer Rock's heart. A dilemma? For sure, but between Kristen and any guy, including Rock, there isn't really a choice to make.
The thing is, although Sarah is against fooling Rock, is Kristen she is talking about. No matter how uncomfortable it'll be. How painful it'll get. Best friends are for life, aren't they? And this whole "Rock&Kristen"scenario only builds up to her already crumbling self-confidence that makes her doubt whether or not to take her mom's advice and take care of business. you know, with a knife. The surgical kind.
Well, Sarah helps Kristen in every way she doesn't want. Sending e-mails, helping on "not-dates", actual dates and the following letters and facebook messages. You smell disaster? Me too.

If you think about it, Sarah has the best intentions, but who wouldn't feel divided in half? Help Kristen. Fall for Rock. It's not the first time you or I have read the same situation, and more than once. Deception always leads to unhappy endings. Deceiving is not the answer. But if Kristen had heard Sarah from the beginning we wouldn't have a story to read. And this is your typical kind of book, beat friends morfs to every extreme just for a guy, and why? Because they don't trust their own selves, so they become someone else. And when you figure out Kristen is just like that, you'll feel sorry for her. Or maybe not, maybe I'm just playing with you? Or not.

No torturing, I'll help you figure that one. All likeness with anything you've read so far ends there. It seems that maybe Rock does seem enchanted by Kristen's charms, even the made up ones. And you, as me, as Sarah, will fall into a doubting point of no return.
I like very much Sarah's dilemma of doing or not a plastic surgery that wll erase all her problems once and for all. Being the daughter of a plastic surgeon gives me an indside view that most don't have access to. Is funny when in one scene, she's researching one of the million brochures her mom plasters her life in oddly ways, but comes upon a video of the procedure and totally frightens. Flaws will always become insecurities. Plastic surgery is just another way of solving that. If I could talk to Sarah I would tell her to do it, ONLY of she feels comfortable with everything that that involves and most of all if she won't regret doing it afterwards. Feel free to take that advice for yourself or a friend. No copyrighting it. =)

The one thing that was potentially annoying, notice the "potential" before the adjetive, is how Sarah portraits Rock like he is the Pope or a super heroe. She barely knows the second thing about the guy, no matter how much she likes him. And why can't she say NO to Kristen for once, it just makes her digging her own hole an easier task.

Sarah is agood student, a good daughter, a good friend, but has build this wall so thick she just missed on so much.
Surprises here and there and she starts knowing herself and her surrounding a great deal more.And finds an answer to all her problems, no matter how difficult it may seem.

I'm not spoiling it for you, I've already talked about it a little too much. Is your turn to ride this well written, inspiring story.
Regardless of what you think or what I said and you have read, you'll be signing up for one of the most unexpected of outcomes ever.



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Unrealistically Good...

His Eyes by Renee Carter

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


What can I say? Although it was extremely short...and fast-paced. I loved it! I have to admit that the first half of the book is kind of dull and like everything you expect from a book like this. But you just wait. It gets to your heart with devastating surprise.

I liked that, although, Tristan loved riding it was kept in the shadows a bit. That even though, at first, you think you know Amy..you end up noticing that you dont. She is perfect for Tristan, as Tristan becomes perfect for Amy. Today, before I finished it I thought of this words. "Perfect doesn't always mean flawless."

Amy an ordinary almost graduated high school student was the only one to respond to a babysitting job. She desperately needs the money if she plans going to the college of her choice. With her mom always someplace else, mentally, and a runaway brother, she can only count on herself making it happen. But there is a catch. That babysitting job is not what she expected, at all. She has to sit a boy who happens to have her same age..and is a little bit..blind.Tristan lost his sight after a riding accident and is reluctant to adapt and hold on to life the best he can.



Although I have to agree to whoever happens to read this that the odds of somebody falling in love that fast are almost zero, and that the author could've easily make this great story even better, digging a little bit futher into their world, the story isn't disappointing at all.

I liked Amy very much, and couldn't help swooning after Tristan. The only thing that nags me is that Ms.Carter could have dig a bit more, elaborate deeper, with what happened to Charlie, Amy's brother. Her relationship with her parents. Tristan's feelings and emotion are kept practically a mystery, Chris and MArly, Tristan's Dad and Mom and everything.

But hey,if after all the lacks of this story still manages to came up with 4 stars is because the story is beautifully thought through. Believe me. ;)



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No title.The book speak by itself.

My Beating Teenage Heart by C.K. Kelly Martin

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


Ever since I heard of this book I wanted to read it. The cover is just perfect, it calls for your attention, it singles itself out among others. Go to whatever bookstore you like and you'll know what I mean. Let me tell you, I have so much to do for college that I didn't knew if I was going to read it this year but the time felt right and I squeezed it between the gazillion thing I had to do and well, worthy it was. Even more than that.

A story tell in two voices that at first is certainly confusing, you just feel like maybe you picked the wrong book or it is a mistake, a cover's mix up or something.NO PEOPLE, the beginning is right. You don't know what are you dealing with at first, a ghost if you believe in that kind of stuff, a spirit or an energy depending on your believes, but it's something that is certainly there, talking to us, explaining whatever she or he is trying to explain, that there are no words for it.

And Breckon, a..uhm..broken guy.See the irony there? No? Well.... The thing with Breckon is that if you are a girl, and I am sure you are, it will fall on your stereotypical high school guy, a good life, good friends, hookups, girlfriends, family. But we meet that Breckon over his memories because now he is, like I said, broken. Tragedy has stricken his life and maybe he is not as strong as he believed he was.

This story is not about Breckon only, dicovering his new self, an after. But is the story of the spirit/energy/ghost that now has a name, Ashlyn. Who is figuring out what's her connection with Breckon, why is she still here, wondering why she can't stop watching/spying Breckon's every move. And rediscovering herself too, but in a before kind of way, she is dead after all.

Everything will be answer, believe me.

The thing I loved the most about it is that had side stories, little ocurrences on both characters lives that can be easily applied to anyone. *Spoilers Alert* Like Breckons bike accident, how he wasn´t aloud to play sports, or the best friend's dilemma, secret hookups, streakings plan, trashing at parties, the sex, and making a pause as I am already on it that well, the sex is very realistic, not meaning that there is a full description, no, but it is certainly true to the reality of most american teenagers. Where I come from is very different. Ok, what else, oh yeah, the high school life for americans. It seems very difficult, very different form my own experiences. There are other situations like Ashlyn's molesting, her relationship with her extended family, even Callum's, Ashlyn's cousin, problems too.How Ashlyn felt about her sister, her surroundings, how she misses everything she took for granted when in the world of the living.



This is a book where you'll find yourself. You'll see that you are NOT the only one going through that, whatever it is. Happy, sad, tragic, depressive, hilarious, horrible, awful, great or plain good. Maybe I'm not the best reviwer, I'm no writer but if you get at least a bit of what I'm trying to communicate to you through this poorly written, what?, essay?...or whatever this is, that makes you want to read it, to pick this book up, and go through it and cry like I did and like you will, I will be glad,even happy that maybe, a tiny bit of that spark was lighten by someone as insignificant and simple as myself. Let me know what you think of it.



Note: I never expected for me to cry at the end, maybe I'm teary this days or something but it was so well written that it was unavoidable. Read it, you'll get what I mean.