Beautiful Girl

by Fleur Philips

When a freak car accident leaves the seventeen-year-old model, Melanie, with facial lacerations, her mother whisks her away to live in Montana for the summer until she makes a full recovery.

• ISBN10: 1940716462
• ISBN13: 9781940716466
• Publish Date: 9 June 2015
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: US
• Imprint: SparkPress
• Format: eBook
• Pages: 150
• Language: English

Reviews

[Leah]

When I read the synopsis of Beautiful Girl I thought it sounded so, so interesting. I was curious what event transpired that would change both Melanie and Sam's lives, but I'm getting ahead of myself. The novel starts, quite abruptly, with Melanie and a friend out and about in LA, when Melanie leaves (because her friend is a jerk) and ends up in a car wreck which leaves her with facial scars. Surgery is planned for later that summer, but until that happens, Melanie's Momager Mom wants her out of the spotlight, so they head to Montana, which is where Melanie meets Sam and a whole load of stuff goes down that literally blew my mind.

Honestly? I felt the book was rushed. I liked the idea, I liked that Melanie had to get over the fact she wasn't beautiful any more, when beauty was all she knew, and I liked Sam. But the whole insta-love thing was insane. Literally after one conversation, Melanie was high-tailing it out of the rental house to go with him and what followed was just insane. It was too much. TOO MUCH HAPPENED. It wasn't believable enough for me.

You have to read it to believe it, and sadly, I didn't believe it. I didn't understand why Sam and Melanie felt so close, so quick; or what the deal was with Melanie's mom who was a horror and no amount of what transpired changed that opinion for me; she puts Kris Jenner to shame.

This just wasn't the read for me, which was a shame, wanted to love it, but I just didn't.