Pretty Face -

Mary Hogan

HarperTeen

2009

224 páginas

7h 28m

ISBN-13: 9780060841133

Every girl who’s been overweight will identify with 16-year-old Haley. She is a stereotype writ large: cute face, smart, funny, a friend to the boy she has a crush on. Oh, yes, and she is unhappy. Very unhappy. Then her mother hits on the idea of sending Haley off to Italy for the summer to stay with her college roommate and her family. Italy is all that Haley wanted and more—the more being a young Italian, Enzo, who loves Haley for the (albeit somewhat slimmer) person she is. If the first part of the book is based on familiarity, the last is pure romance. Hogan does both dialogue and description equally well, opening the way for readers to laugh at Haley’s wry observations and be enchanted by the Italian countryside and the town of Assisi, which becomes almost a character in the book. Haley and Enzo lose their virginity to each other in a scene that’s not so much sexy as it is fumblingly romantic. A hopeful book, this puts power back in the hands of a girl who hated the sunshine of her native Santa Monica but basks in the Italian glow.

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- 02/04/08: Pretty Face, out now by Mary Hogan. This is a great book by the author of The Serious Kiss, which I also really enjoyed.
It really is true how when you stop dieting, you lose weight! When I stopped drinking diet soda and just ate what I wanted (but not to excess), I lost ten pounds. TEN POUNDS!!! Just by not dieting.
Anyway, I loved Pretty Face, not because it’s about an effective weight loss plan (although not worrying about your weight and just being healthy IS an effective weight loss plan–you don’t have to go to Italy to do it!), but because it’s a sweet book!

>> trecho do blog da autora Meg Cabot sobre o livro Pretty Face.