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A review by kyleechris
Picture Perfect by Alessandra Thomas
5.0
If you'd like to read a character interview with Cat and Nate click here!
This will be one of those rant and review, reviews (the good kind) because this book deserves it. To put my feelings about this book into words might be a bit difficult, to say it left me speechless is to the point. This book was such a beautiful little story with such a powerful message and I loved it so much. I feel like an obvious thing that I loved about this book is that Cat was a bigger girl, there's nothing wrong with being skinny or big but I feel like most girls in books I read are skinny and it's not something everyone can relate to. What I really loved about this story is that it isn't just about a bigger woman being beautiful, it's about a once skinny woman learning that no matter the size we are all beautiful. We see Cat's struggle and you can feel how difficult it is for her, I don't know a single girl or woman who has never at one point in her life felt insecure because we all do. Picture Perfect sends such a powerful and positive message to girls who may be bigger, there really is someone out there for everyone and you should be comfortable, confident, and love yourself because that's what makes you beautiful. No matter how cheesy that is, it's true.
On to the actual loving of the book and why. The writing was amazing, it was so easy for me to get into the writing style that Alessandra has and follow the story. I'm finding recently that some books have funky writing styles and point of views that end up confusing me and I didn't have that problem with Picture Perfect. The actual plot of this story was beautiful, we see Cat at her worst from the beginning and get to experience with her the process in growing to love herself again and becoming a stronger person from this experience even when life tries to drag her down. I loved her from the moment we met her and my love for her as a character only grew throughout this story. She was portrayed in a great way and she is definitely one of my all time favorite female characters. Nate was just as phenomenal and definitely hot, hot, hot. I loved his personality and how he pretty much worshiped the ground Cat walked on and as you will see later, still does and always will as far as I can tell in the character interview I got to do with them. The big bomb that Alessandra dropped on us was sooo completely unexpected! You can tell by the description something is going to come up but I never imagined that of all things. It made me sad to see what had happened but at the same time I was sort of grateful in a sense because it made Nate who he is today, into the man that Cat deserved.
I read Picture Perfect in two days, I would have preferred one but I had school. This book is something everyone needs to devour because I guarantee you will love it. Alessandra has earned a place on my watch for list and Cat and Nate are officially in my top five favorite couples, this book is definitely in the running for my favorite book this year! I'm looking forward to more books from Alessandra and I highly recommend you read this one, it's a must. Now on to the super duper fun part, I got to do an interview with both Cat and Nate and I'm so honored they're the first on my blog so check it out below!
This will be one of those rant and review, reviews (the good kind) because this book deserves it. To put my feelings about this book into words might be a bit difficult, to say it left me speechless is to the point. This book was such a beautiful little story with such a powerful message and I loved it so much. I feel like an obvious thing that I loved about this book is that Cat was a bigger girl, there's nothing wrong with being skinny or big but I feel like most girls in books I read are skinny and it's not something everyone can relate to. What I really loved about this story is that it isn't just about a bigger woman being beautiful, it's about a once skinny woman learning that no matter the size we are all beautiful. We see Cat's struggle and you can feel how difficult it is for her, I don't know a single girl or woman who has never at one point in her life felt insecure because we all do. Picture Perfect sends such a powerful and positive message to girls who may be bigger, there really is someone out there for everyone and you should be comfortable, confident, and love yourself because that's what makes you beautiful. No matter how cheesy that is, it's true.
On to the actual loving of the book and why. The writing was amazing, it was so easy for me to get into the writing style that Alessandra has and follow the story. I'm finding recently that some books have funky writing styles and point of views that end up confusing me and I didn't have that problem with Picture Perfect. The actual plot of this story was beautiful, we see Cat at her worst from the beginning and get to experience with her the process in growing to love herself again and becoming a stronger person from this experience even when life tries to drag her down. I loved her from the moment we met her and my love for her as a character only grew throughout this story. She was portrayed in a great way and she is definitely one of my all time favorite female characters. Nate was just as phenomenal and definitely hot, hot, hot. I loved his personality and how he pretty much worshiped the ground Cat walked on and as you will see later, still does and always will as far as I can tell in the character interview I got to do with them. The big bomb that Alessandra dropped on us was sooo completely unexpected! You can tell by the description something is going to come up but I never imagined that of all things. It made me sad to see what had happened but at the same time I was sort of grateful in a sense because it made Nate who he is today, into the man that Cat deserved.
I read Picture Perfect in two days, I would have preferred one but I had school. This book is something everyone needs to devour because I guarantee you will love it. Alessandra has earned a place on my watch for list and Cat and Nate are officially in my top five favorite couples, this book is definitely in the running for my favorite book this year! I'm looking forward to more books from Alessandra and I highly recommend you read this one, it's a must. Now on to the super duper fun part, I got to do an interview with both Cat and Nate and I'm so honored they're the first on my blog so check it out below!