Tuesday, March 17, 2009

North of Beautiful


OK so I just finished another book called North of Beautiful by Justina Chen Headley. Its very good and i enjoyed it allot. Its about a girl named Terra Cooper who was born with a port-wine birthmark on her cheek. Her whole life people have told her one day she would be beautiful but never that she herself was beautiful. Her mother is always taking her to get laser treatments to try to lighten her birthmark. Her verbally abusive father is no help at all. He knows just what to say to make you feel small and insignificant and has made it his life's pursuit to make her feel like her face is her fault. She's an artist who lives in a shell because until one day she gets into a car accident and almost hits this Goth boy in a Starbucks parking lot. She and him start a friendship that is strange because they are so different. He's an adopted Chinese boy who once had a cleft lip so they both have something people stare at, her because of her birthmark and him because he's a Chinese boy with a Blonde white mother (remember the Chinese give up girls, not boys).

I loved this book. It was so good! I couldn't even include everything i wanted to because its got so much in it. You will love it. Just read it. Please read it! It was great :D God Bless!

4 comments:

  1. Heeeey you should totally have guest reviewers post about their favorite/least favorite books or whatnot! :D

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  2. I am soo getting this book. And I agree with Meg! And thank you for making this blog, it'll give me some great ideas for my next reads, hehe.

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  3. oooooooooooooooh thats a great idea!Anyone wanting to post a reveiw so everyone can see you can email it to me. Make sure it has a picture and the author. :)

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  4. oh if my email dosnt come up its Kaitlinbake@gmail.com just in case you dont know it. :)

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