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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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