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Bezchybná (2011)

by Lara Chapman(Favorite Author)

3.75 of 5 Votes: 4

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Albatros Cooboo

review 1: Sarah Burke is so close to perfect. Except for one flaw; her nose. On the first day of senior year, Rock Conway walks in to school and Sarah immediately falls for him. He is in the same class as Sarah: journalism. The problem is Sarah's best friend, Kristen, falls for him too. Kristen and Rock look like the perfect couple together. So when Kristen asks Sarah to help her get Rock, Sarah has no choice but to agree to help her. Sarah being as careful as she possibly can to help Kristen becomes too comfortable talking to Rock and accidentally says some things that Kristen doesn't know. Everything changes after that.I absolutely LOVEEE this book. The author did an amazing job. What I liked about the book was how everything became a love story at the end. It has drama between t... morewo best friends and how they solved the problem was great. Its so hard to explain but I hope the people that read this book enjoy it as much as I did.Elise, Age 13
review 2: I'm a sucker for YA Lit that draws on the "classics" for plot and theme, and Chapman does this BRILLIANTLY in Flawless! The names are clever: Cyrano de Bergerac becomes Sarah Burke, Roxane (the love interest) becomes Rock, and Baron Christian de Neuvillette (Cyrano's friend) becomes Kristen. The themes of inner beauty versus outer and the danger of deception stay front-and-center. I loved that Sarah wrestled with her flawed feature (her nose, of course!), but stayed true to who she was and was appreciated (and loved?) for that. And, as in the original drama, the deception plays out(made current through the use of email and Facebook!)-- made deliciously uncomfortable because we KNOW how that has to end up!I did find myself having to work through some minor hiccups. I was occasionally frustrated with Sarah: I wanted her to be "deeper" at times, more mature than she was and less willing to fall into Kristen's superficial tone. While this made her more "realistic," I wanted our heroine to stay completely true to the idea of "inner" beauty. (After all, Rock, the unwitting victim, did stay true to what he REALLY wanted in a love interest!) Another "hiccup" (albeit minor) was Sarah's acceptance to Rice and consequent shrug (NO ONE fills out an application THAT long to a university which is both that prestigious and that costly, then shrugs off the acceptance while waiting to hear from UT-- if you DID get into Rice, with its high bar, you have no worries about UT. . . ). None of these misgivings caused me to put the book down, and as Ms. Chapman's first foray into novel writing, the book is truly exceptional in its clever character development and witty interpretation of a classic story. less

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