Perfect You
Author: Elizabeth Scott
ISBN: 9781439505915

Perfect You by Elizabeth Scott tells the story of Kate Brown, a sophomore in high school who is convinced her life could not get any worse. Kate’s dad recently quit his job to pursue his dream of selling vitamins at a booth in the mall. Kate is forced to work with him and she hates it. Money’s tight and things between Kate and her family are tense.

To make things worse, Kate has just lost her best friend Anna. Anna went away for the summer and when she came back skinnier and prettier than ever before, she just stopped talking to Kate. Kate was devastated.

As if high school doesn’t suck already, there is this guy Will. He always makes fun of Kate and she can’t stand him. However, she is weirdly attracted to him, too.

I really wanted to love this book. I’d heard great things about it and the cover is so cute. I didn’t LOVE the book, but I did like it.

The story was a good one. I thought the whole working at the mall vitamin booth thing was a little weird at first, but it all makes sense in the context of the story.

Just like I wanted to love the book, I wanted to love Kate. However, Kate wasn’t that great of a main character. I get that the book was trying to portray an angsty teenager, but Kate took it too far. I felt down the whole book because Kate complained the entire time. The other thing that bothered me about Kate was that she was SO STUBBORN. She overreacted about every little thing and when it was completely obvious that someone was trying to be nice to her, she was mean to them or wouldn’t listen. I got so frustrated reading the book and I wanted to shake Kate and tell her to snap out of her funk.

One character that I did love was Will. What a great male character. He somehow dealt with Kate’s craziness and he really shined throughout the entire book.

This was a pretty quick read. Although I didn’t love Kate, she definitely had a distinct voice and I liked the way she told her story.

3.5/5