by Natasha Friend
My Life in Black and White follows Lexi, a girl who has always been defined by her natural beauty. She had meet her bestfriend Taylor in kindergarden and since then became the dynamic duo. Lexi thaught she had the perfect life; she had natural beauty,friends, love with boyfriend Ryan and a promising...
I really enjoyed reading this novel the plot was pretty interesting.Alexa recently got into a car accident and she ended up getting surgery for her face. Getting this operation done completely change her life. Before she was considered the prettiest girl in the world, and now she is know as the girl...
Pretty people with pretty problems.That might sound heartless but I honestly don’t mean that in a bad way. Personally, I like reading books about pretty people with pretty problems. I like not having to think too hard or feel emotionally drained after reading a book. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t mean...
I had a hard time getting into this. Alexa was just not a pleasant person to read about. She came across as a very shallow person, and a spoiled rotten brat. For the first 2/3rds of the book I relied on Ruthie to get me through, as she made very valid points and tried to hold Alexa accountable. I th...
Read this review on Reading Robyn! "My life is over. It's the kind of pronouncement teenage girls make every day. They say it after such traumatic events as, say, farting out loud in gym class, or discovering they've gained three pounds at Christmas and can't fit in their winter formal dress. Oh my ...
Rating: 4.5 My Life in Black and White is a story about a girl struggling to define who she is when she's lost what has always defined her.The writing was up my alley. I loved it. The story hits a topic that I bet every teen, including myself, struggles with from time to time. Lexi, our main charact...
I had a lot of problems with this book. Top of the list, I suppose, is the way it treated voyeurism and sexual abuse. It's like the author wanted to say something meaningful about those things, as well as about what it means to be a young woman and a sexual object and believing that your beauty is a...
I have never had that problem, you know? Being beautiful, I mean, so at the beginning of the novel, I wasn’t too sure how I’d relate to the main character. But I worried needlessly because, as has become characteristic of all the contemporary novels I have read and loved, Lexi is one of those girls ...