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Color Me Pretty (2013)

by C.M. Stunich(Favorite Author)

4.17 of 5 Votes: 3

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Sarian Royal

series

A Duet

review 1: *This Review is being done by Heather O. one of our reviewers and will also be listed under her personal goodreads account*This is the second book in a duet. Do not read this review if you have not already read Paint me Beautiful as it will contain spoilers."I don't know how Sleeping Beauty felt when she awoke from her enchanted sleep, but if it is anything like the way I feel right now, then I can guess she was one pissed off princess."Color Me Pretty picks up right where Paint me Beautiful left off. It begins with Claire in the hospital, waking up after accidentally killing herself. She is hurt and confused. She is disgusted by the feeding tube and worrying over how many calories they are pumping into her body. She refers to herself as being reborn and sees herself with ... morenew eyes. It's like she can finally really see her body and she is horrified."A scream builds in my throat. I see sallow skin wrapped around bone and knees that are bigger than my calves... My fingers are so little, long and thin, like witch hands."In Claire's mind she remembers being huge and fat, but with her eyes she can see how terrifyingly skinny she actually is."This is you, Claire. And you're not fat. You're skinny, Claire. You're skinny and you're dying. That's the truth, so get over yourself and deal with it or they'll deal with it for you."She awakens to her mom, dad and Marlena. Her family believes that she is suicidal and also blames her beloved Emmett for allowing her to get so skinny and almost dying. They call him a pervert and a freak for sleeping with her while she has been so sick. Her family will not accept him in her life. They arrange for her to be sent to a treatment facility, which legally she must go to for a 72 hour evaluation. Claire has her family removed from the hospital. Emmett visits her and agrees to pick her up after her 72 hours and bring her home with him."'If it wasn't for Emmett, I'd be dead right now...Not because I meant to die or tried to kill myself, but because I would've never realized that anything was wrong, not even with something like this..."Her family returns on the day that she is to be taken to the treatment center. When Claire informs her family that she will be going home with Emmett they leave. While at the treatment facility, Claire meets Kylie, a suicidal girl who will become her new best friend and a very big part of her recovery."I'm disgusting. Skinny is supposed to be pretty and perfect, desirable. But none of this is."Although Claire realizes how disgustingly skinny she is, she is at war with her mind. When a person has believed something for so long, it is hard to change that. She still sees calories and food as the enemy. She has to force herself to eat. Every meal is a battle."If anything, I guess I've learned that sometimes, skinny is ugly. Sometimes it's scary. Sometimes it's deadly"Emmett is AMAZING! He seems to always know exactly what Claire needs. He knows even when she doesn't. Emmett never makes her feel like a failure in her weak moments. He distracts her from her problems rather than throwing them in her face. Emmett doesn't think she is gross. He is in love with her truly and deeply."Emmett makes me forget that I'm an anorexic-bulimic-depressed monster. He makes me feel like just a girl, just a careless, beautiful girl."This book is Claire's battle through anorexia. Emmett, Kylie and Lianna(the fashion designer from book one) are the key people that help her along the way. Her journey is not easy and at times heart breaking. But, it is also a story about falling in love and self discovery. "Sometimes people are born with a bit of pain inside of them and sometimes that pain grows and morphs, changes, becomes something bigger than we are and tries to consume us. I am not alone, and I am not the only person who has suffered through this, but I am one of the ones who's going to come out the other side."Stunich did an amazing job with these books! Along with shedding light on a very serious illness. She created characters that are charming and loveable.
review 2: It's really good. A really great follow-up to the first one. The first one was so dark and dismal; it had to be, given the subject matter. And this one was filled with such hope and love. I would have loved one more chapter. I always feel that way...but I would have liked more closure with her family. Emmett...how do you not love that man? I don't think he actually exists on this planet. less

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