Picture Perfect by Alessandra Thomas

Picture Perfect (Drop Everything Now, #1)

by Alessandra Thomas

Fashion design major Cat Mitchell has a closet full of gorgeous clothes - and not a single thing fits. After two years of runway modeling for easy cash, an accident shattered her lower leg bone and her self-esteem in just one swift fall. Ten months of no exercise, prescription steroids, comfort eating and yoga pants meant returning to campus as a size twelve instead of her former size two.

When her gorgeous long-time friend with benefits sees her for the first time after her accident and snubs her in front of all her friends, Cat’s self-image hits rock bottom. Her sorority sisters all insist that she looks gorgeous, but all Cat sees is the roll of her stomach when she sits down, or the dimpling at the back of her thighs that wasn't there last year. Cat’s therapist prescribes something radical to stop the downward spiral - nude modeling for a nearby college's human form drawing classes.

When Cat faces her fears and bares it all for the class, she realizes that she's posing naked in front the most gorgeous, buffest guy she's ever seen in her life. He asks her out after the class, and after one steamy night and six weeks of perfect dates together, Cat's absolutely smitten.

But when Cat goes home with Nate for Thanksgiving, she discovers something shocking from his recent past that proves that he hasn’t always been so encouraging of women of all shapes and sizes. Cat has no idea what to think, but she does know one thing - this might destroy their relationship before it's even had a chance to get off the ground.

Before Cat can figure out whether the real Nate is the sensitive, adoring guy she fell in love with, or an undercover asshole, she'll have to finally feel comfortable in her own skin - even if it means leaving him forever.

(This book contains sex and adult language.)

Reviewed by nitzan_schwarz on

3 of 5 stars

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While I did enjoy the story, it didn't get me the FEELS I expected it too, being someone with body image issues myself. I didn't connect to the characters that much, and I felt the change in Cat at the end was really instantaneous and out of the blue. I mean, her entire self worth was build on that other person, so it should've taken her a bit longer to find strength out of it all, shouldn't it?
And suddenly she's speaking of understanding she's beautiful and that the new body size is exactly the body size that fits her best... Girl, as someone who's been struggling with body image for about as long as she's been alive, and has only been able to find some form of peace with it after 5 years of working out and still not being there, it really threw me off.

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