Beauty [Paperback]

Lisa Daily (Author)

Book Description

Release date: May 10, 2012

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--comes with a price. She's faced with an impossible choice: Will reclaiming her true identity mean letting go of Hudson for good?

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Lisa Daily lives in Florida. Beauty is her first novel for young adults.

Product Details

• Age Range: 12 and up
  
• Paperback: 288 pages
• Publisher: Razorbill; Original edition (May 10, 2012)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1595143807
• ISBN-13: 978-1595143808
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.5 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.5 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,805,454 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Lisa Daily can tell you why he didn't call, the color you should never wear on a first date, and even where to snoop for evidence if you think your guy's been fooling around.

She's the love and relationships expert on DAYTIME, a nationally-syndicated morning TV show, and a popular media guest who has appeared everywhere from MTV Live to Entertainment Tonight, and been quoted everywhere from the New York Times, Washington Post and Chicago Tribune to Cosmopolitan, Glamour, Men's Health, Christian Science Monitor and US Weekly Magazine. Lisa did a cameo as a real-life dating expert on the HITCH movie DVD starring Will Smith. She's is the author of 7 books, including Stop Getting Dumped!, Fifteen Minutes of Shame, How to Date Like a Grown-Up, Southern Fried Farce, Beauty, Is He Cheating? and Is She Cheating?

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For more on Lisa, please visit her website http://www.lisadaily.com or her dating advice blog http://www.stopgettingdumped.com

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic book!!! June 11, 2012

By J. Devernie

Format:Kindle Edition

Lisa Daily writes fantastic stories. I love the way she weaves humor and 'real life'. I want to read ALL of her books!

2.0 out of 5 stars Cute story, but predictable and at times, infuriating. July 7, 2012

By Jasmine Baggenstos

Format:Paperback

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?).

Near Miss/Miss

2.0 out of 5 stars Why does shallow get rewarded?!?? May 27, 2012

By Turtles

Format:Kindle Edition

@ 85%
I can't finish this. I just can't stand when the "nice" social pariah becomes pretty, it goes to her head and she's "mean" to her true friends, then poof! Something gets resolved and all is forgiven and she gets the boy. I feel the message is abhorrent... that 1) Pretty people are shallow and petty, and 2) Anyone who betrays you is worthy of being forgiven. There's more but I don't feel like writing it.

@ 60%
I was hoping for a little more drive to this. I feel the pain of Molly... it can be rough being beautiful when people fanatically flock to you and kids follow you on their bikes. But the depth is pretty lacking, it tries...