Welcome to this stop on the Children's Book Week Giveaway Hop where you can win an ARC of Gorgeous by Paul Rudnick.
Title: Gorgeous
Author: Paul Rudnick
Publisher: Scholastic
Length: 305
Rating: 3.5/5
When Becky Randle’s mother dies on her eighteenth birthday, she
is devastated. But in her mother’s things she discovers a phone number that
changes everything. Tom Kelly, the world’s top designer, offers to make Becky
three dresses, guaranteed to turn her from trailer park girl to world’s most
beautiful woman. Remade as Rebecca, she flawless in everyone’s eyes except her
own. But it’s Becky, not Rebecca that falls in love with the prince of England,
and Becky isn’t sure Tom Kelly’s magic is enough to make the prince see the
read girl inside the beauty.
This book was a fun and snarky, with something important to say
about popular culture and how we see beauty. Also, the cover is, well…gorgeous!
I liked the conception of the fairy-tale magic of this book.
Becky is only Rebecca when she’s with other people. Alone, she looks in the
mirror and sees her normal self. There’s no makeover and the magic is really in
perception. This makes the book more relatable, because everyone sees
themselves differently than other people see them.
Becky’s story goes to all extremes. She stars in a movie with
Hollywood it-boy Jate Mallow, is on the cover of Vogue, and of course, dates
the prince of England. My favorite part about all these crazy adventures is
that she brings her best friend Rocher (named after the chocolate of course)
along with her. Rocher keeps Becky sane, and keeps the reader sane with her witty
voice of reason through all the crazy adventures.
This book is unlike any other YA book I’ve read. While at
times a bit long-winded in its lavish descriptions of the culture, this book
will make you reevaluate the power beauty, both inside and out.
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