Perfect You | 
 enlarge | Author: Elizabeth Scott
Creator: Lisa Fyfe
Publisher: Simon Pulse
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  14 reviews
Sales Rank: 57512
Media: Paperback
Reading Level: Young Adult
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 304
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Dimensions (in): 8.1 x 5.5 x 0.9
ISBN: 1416953558
EAN: 9781416953555
ASIN: 1416953558
Publication Date: March 25, 2008
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Product Description
Kate Brown's life has gone downhill fast. Her father has quit his job to sell vitamins at the mall, and Kate is forced to work with him. Her best friend has become popular, and now she acts like Kate's invisible.And then there's Will. Gorgeous, unattainable Will, whom Kate acts like she can't stand even though she can't stop thinking about him. When Will starts acting interested, Kate hates herself for wanting him when she's sure she's just his latest conquest. Kate figures that the only way things will ever stop hurting so much is if she keeps to herself and stops caring about anyone or anything. What she doesn't realize is that while life may not always be perfect, good things can happen -- but only if she lets them....
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 realistic and heart warming October 11, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Reminded me so much of my own life and very relatable. I recommend it to all highschool girls!
 Perfect You Review October 6, 2008
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
In Perfect You, I found the plot to be very unrealistic and for the most part not very relatable. Through out the book, it annoyed me how Kate always thought the worst scenario possible, needless to say she had very low self esteem and confidence. Seeing how she lost her best friend who is now popular and acts like she doesn't know her I might be able to see why she does. Kate's dad was also was a bit annoying, his thinking and inconsideration to his family was ridiculous. Towards the ending of the book though it picked up and was better than the first half. Kate began to realize things could be possible with a positive attitude and outlook. I think the theme of this was to believe in yourself and to not let life's obstacles keep you down.
 Somewhat Perfect 3.5 Stars September 13, 2008
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
This book was okay for me. It was entertaining, but I became a little frustrated with Kate's low self-esteem, her dad's childish behavior and her mother's acceptance of it, risking her family's security.
Surprising to me, one of my favorite character's was will, Kate's love interest. I really liked his personality, better than Kate's.
Overall this book was okay. I didn't mind reading it and it did keep my interest. It was fast reading, though the issues, not so lighthearted.
Another surprise, the grandma, who's made out to be sort of monstrous, was indeed not a great person, but she was right on the money with her thoughts about her daughter's choices and the loser husband she picked and stayed with.
Perfect Book:) July 31, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I absolutely fell in love with this book. It was so cute and heart felt and funny.
Okay, the narrator of this story, Kate Brown has been having a sucky year. Her best friend got a new look and dumped her for new friends, popularity, and a hot boyfriend. Her brother is moving back in, and then her dad quits his job to sell Perfect You vitamins and her sassy tongued grandmother comes to live with them indefinitely. And to top it all off, Will Miller, the "King of hook-ups", takes an interest in her and starts to talk to her. Kate acts like she hates the guy but she actually has a crush on him, but is too stubborn to admit it.
Then later in the book, her parents' relationship is strained, her ex-best friend is talking to her again, but is she really trying to be friends again? AND then Will asks her out, and she doesn't know what to believe anymore.
Anyways, this book was about how changes can be a good experience for you and that it won't necessarily ruin your life.
Charming, humorous, and utterly satisfying July 25, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Elizabeth Scott's second novel is just as poignant and addictive to read as her well-reviewed debut, BLOOM --- perhaps even more so. In the year since BLOOM's publication, Scott has clearly honed her skills, crafting a tighter story that fluently captures the anxieties of talking to (let alone trusting) a first crush, the self-deprecation and anguish of losing a best friend, and the bemusement that comes with having to parent...your parents.
But what does all of this have to do with vitamins?
It all started when Kate's father quit his job at a prestigious software company because his desk had broken in half. He figured it was a sign. Not even a month later, he cashed in his retirement fund to purchase boxes full of infomercial vitamins called "Perfect You." His plan? To buy a booth at the mall and sell them to anyone who would take the bait --- with Kate's help, of course.
So instead of going to parties with her friends and cheering for her boyfriend on the basketball team, Kate is stuck trying to hide her mortification when her father wears his B-Buzz vitamin bee costume during her shift, or worse yet, when he gets thrown out of the Sports Shack for pushing vitamins on their customers. But wait. Kate doesn't have a boyfriend. Nor does she have any friends aside from the three Jennifers who are so busy competing to be each other's best friend that they barely notice her.
Granted, Kate's life hadn't always been so terrible. Prior to her sophomore year, she spent every waking second with her best friend, Anna, who never seemed to care what anyone else thought --- at least not until hunky Sam, the boy Anna had been in love with for forever, called her a "wide load."
After that, everything changed. Anna came back from her summer in Maine, determined to be a different person. She was blonde, 70 pounds thinner and suddenly popular, which, of course, meant No More Kate. So for the first few months of 10th grade, Kate spends every day alone --- that is, until Sam's cute friend, Will, kisses her behind the dumpsters at the mall.
In the chapters that follow, Kate bumbles through a series of crushing setbacks (Anna delivers one too many blows to her dwindling self-worth, her parents separate due to her father's seemingly endless mid-life crisis, Will asks her out on a date --- to humiliate her?) before ultimately crumbling in defeat.
But, as those who liked Scott's first novel are aware, Kate's story is far from over despite the trauma she has endured, and readers will breeze through the last few chapters with genuine pleasure.
PERFECT YOU has just the right combination of humor, charm and weight to satisfy old fans and win over new ones. Its rich characters --- especially haughty but wise Grandma --- are brimming with quirky idiosyncrasies meant to both irritate and please. Like in BLOOM, Scott navigates familial dysfunction and teen melodrama with aplomb, and teens will eat up what develops when Kate and Will finally "get real" at the end.
--- Reviewed by Alexis Burling
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