What's it like to be the most beautiful girl in the world?
Molly desperately wants to be beautiful. And that's what she tells Dharma, the mysterious portrait artist who sketches her face at the town fair just minutes after she's humiliated in front of Hudson, the guy of her dreams. When Molly wakes up the following morning, she's the most beautiful girl in Miracle, Ohio. Babies coo in her arms, her house fills with flowers from dozens of drooling boys, and she's chosen to be a model for the hottest store in town. Best of all, Hudson finally falls for her.
But Molly soon discovers that beauty -- and her wish -- come with a price. She's faced with an impossible choice: Will reclaiming her true identity mean letting go of Hudson for good.
Beauty was a fun read, but our main character, Molly, was constantly driving me nuts. She becomes beautiful and magically transforms from quiet, kind invisible girl to world-class B in a matter of days. I was in a constant state of wanting to throw the book across the room for almost its entirety.
Of course, you can tell simply by reading the description
that this is going to be a very moral-driven story, but in the end that’s all I got out of it. Here we have a girl
with a good friend and a pretty decent life who thinks being pretty will make
everything better. So, she gets her wish and becomes the person everyone is
falling all over themselves to please – girls and guys alike. Except, all the
people who cared about her in the first place. Those people? Molly just pushes
them to the side like yesterday’s trash and I’m sitting here going “excuse me?
How can one person be so terrible when they’ve been on the other side of it?”
Needless to say, though Molly learned her lesson in the end, I wasn’t a fan at
all of how she managed to get there. I couldn’t connect with her at all since I
couldn’t justify any of her crappy actions.
Despite all my complaints about the main character and the
storyline it’s still a pretty cute read. Predictable and infuriating at times,
but still a cute, fun read.
The Nutshell: Beauty is exactly what you think it is: a story about a girl who had a decent life but thought good looks would solve all her problems, but they didn’t. You can easily guess how the story will go, but it’s still a cute, quick read if you want some moralistic fluff (is that a contradiction?).
Pages: 272
I love this book!
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