She's looking good...but Allison Avery can't believe it. Growing up with beautiful, blond sisters, Allison has always been the dark-haired, "in... read full description
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Jan 17, 2012
Chandni
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Allison Avery is the middle sister in a family with three girls. Over the years, she has been plagued by feelings of inadequacy since both of her sisters are pretty, blonde, and perfect. She has dark wavy hair and eyes that are too far apart and considers herself to be unattractive. However, when she sells her cell phone to the devil in exchange for seven people thinking she’s beautiful, it sets her on a path to find out what true beauty is.
I really enjoyed this book. This book seems perfe More...
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Nov 18, 2011
Your Average Bookworms
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I thought this book would be humorous, and a fun, light read,but I was rather disappointed because, well... it was none of the above.
First off, I didn't like the characters, and even if I liked them, I didn't have that connection with them, which was a little off for me. I didn't like Charlie, even though she was the main character, she was always self-conscious, to the point where it got annoying when she kept repeating that she could was never good enough. I'm not saying, that I don' More...
First off, I didn't like the characters, and even if I liked them, I didn't have that connection with them, which was a little off for me. I didn't like Charlie, even though she was the main character, she was always self-conscious, to the point where it got annoying when she kept repeating that she could was never good enough. I'm not saying, that I don' More...
Dec 02, 2010
Claire
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Jul 20, 2010
Christi
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Summary: In Rachel Veil's book Gorgeous, Allison Avery is the middle child and interesting looking. With a smart older sister and a pretty younger sister, both blond, Allison has always been the dark-haired average child. When the devil offers to make her gorgeous in exchange for her cell phone, Allison jumps to accept. While her family undergoes a financial crisis, Allison makes a new friend who helps her understand her old friends, find the courage to confront the boy she's had a crush on all
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Jul 29, 2010
Heather
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Best first two sentences ever:
"I sold my cell phone to the devil.
In my own defense, it had been a really crappy day."
I picked this book up at the library and laughed out loud when I read those first two sentences. SOLD! In fact the first two pages are super concise. Succinct. Great voice. Funny. And then...
I dunno. It wasn't awful. It just wasn't good.
Maybe I'm just not a fan of the beautiful girl who doesn't realize how hot she is. I me More...
"I sold my cell phone to the devil.
In my own defense, it had been a really crappy day."
I picked this book up at the library and laughed out loud when I read those first two sentences. SOLD! In fact the first two pages are super concise. Succinct. Great voice. Funny. And then...
I dunno. It wasn't awful. It just wasn't good.
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Oct 02, 2011
Michelle
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This is a fun, easily readable teen girl family and friends story. It's not going to win any literary awards but it should win popularity awards.
Allison Avery is the middle sister, the quirky one, "interesting-loooking" as her grandmother puts it. Not sweet and nice and pretty like her younger sister and not diligent and intelligent like her oldest sister. Frustrated at her percieved "nothingness", Aliison sells her Cell phone to the devil in order to be gorgeo More...
Allison Avery is the middle sister, the quirky one, "interesting-loooking" as her grandmother puts it. Not sweet and nice and pretty like her younger sister and not diligent and intelligent like her oldest sister. Frustrated at her percieved "nothingness", Aliison sells her Cell phone to the devil in order to be gorgeo More...
May 06, 2009
Jennifer
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Reviewed by Jennifer Rummel for TeensReadToo.com
As the middle sister, Allison feels neglected.
She’s not beautiful or lucky like her other sisters; she’s merely interesting. With all the family drama – something’s up with her mom and her job - Allison feels left out.
Allison’s best friend is also getting on her nerves. When she hangs out with Roxie Green one day; she just might discover that fun is missing from her life.
She also might have made More...
As the middle sister, Allison feels neglected.
She’s not beautiful or lucky like her other sisters; she’s merely interesting. With all the family drama – something’s up with her mom and her job - Allison feels left out.
Allison’s best friend is also getting on her nerves. When she hangs out with Roxie Green one day; she just might discover that fun is missing from her life.
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Dec 28, 2009
Ella
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This book is about a girl, Allison whos life is a little interesting.
She never thinks she is pretty and she doesn't believe that anyone
will ever want her. One night she meets with the devil and lthey make
a trade. She gets one wish that will be granted and he gets her cell
phone. When her wish makes her life misrable she has to figure it out
on her own.
I can make a text to world connection. The connection is that many
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She never thinks she is pretty and she doesn't believe that anyone
will ever want her. One night she meets with the devil and lthey make
a trade. She gets one wish that will be granted and he gets her cell
phone. When her wish makes her life misrable she has to figure it out
on her own.
I can make a text to world connection. The connection is that many
people do belie More...
Apr 23, 2011
J
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Title: Gorgeous
Author: Rachel Vail
Publisher: Harper Teen
Pages: 271
Source: CO Teen Literature Conference Bookstore
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Allison Avery is a fun character, though not as fiery and sarcastic as the summary implies. As the novel progresses, she begins to stand up for herself, and becomes more and more fiery. I had a difficult time empathizing with Allison in the novel because she wasn't the character I had been introduced More...
Author: Rachel Vail
Publisher: Harper Teen
Pages: 271
Source: CO Teen Literature Conference Bookstore
My Review:
Characters:
Allison Avery is a fun character, though not as fiery and sarcastic as the summary implies. As the novel progresses, she begins to stand up for herself, and becomes more and more fiery. I had a difficult time empathizing with Allison in the novel because she wasn't the character I had been introduced More...
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Nov 05, 2009
Jenn
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Full Review here: http://booksatmidnight.blogspot.com/2009...
Bottom Line: Even though there were major flaws in character and plot, Gorgeous, overall, was a mildly enjoyable read for me. I didn't necessarily like the characters, but I also didn't have a strong aversion to them, and I think that and the fact that I didn't go in with high expectations allowed me to still sort of enjoy the book for what it is: very light chick-lit. The concept had potential, but I don't think Rachel Vail More...
Bottom Line: Even though there were major flaws in character and plot, Gorgeous, overall, was a mildly enjoyable read for me. I didn't necessarily like the characters, but I also didn't have a strong aversion to them, and I think that and the fact that I didn't go in with high expectations allowed me to still sort of enjoy the book for what it is: very light chick-lit. The concept had potential, but I don't think Rachel Vail More...
Nov 29, 2011
Madeleineshs12
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Gorgeous by Rachel Vail was not a book I had high hopes for. I arrived at it through its prequel, Lucky, which I had read while desperate for new material. This book was, however, better than I had thought it would be. Allison Avery is the middle child--right in between cute and popular Phoebe and smart, motivated Quinn. She tries to find herself after making a deal with the devil--a device used by the author to develop Allison's character. But it's not a dark and dramatic deal, just one tr
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Jan 17, 2010
Jamie
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This book is about a girl name Allison. She is very self concious and she doesn't think she is pretty... Untill one night she makes a trade with the devil and he gets her cellphone. That one wish makes her life upside down.
I can connect Allison to many girls in my grade and lower grades aswell. A lot of girls are self concious about their weitght and how they look and wish they can change or look like someone else.
I rate this book 3 stars because it was interesting and it More...
I can connect Allison to many girls in my grade and lower grades aswell. A lot of girls are self concious about their weitght and how they look and wish they can change or look like someone else.
I rate this book 3 stars because it was interesting and it More...
Sep 03, 2009
Adriana
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This is another book that I have read over the summer. This book was okay. I liked it but it wasnt my type of book. It was a book about popular girls living another other popular girls and like always one really stands out because she's more beautiful then the other and conflicts started. This gorgeous girl that stood out in her town was called Allison.Allie as a kid wasnt the special one because she had teo pretty sisters so she didnt stand out as much. Then one day she made a trade and it
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Aug 14, 2009
Diana
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It sucks to be the one who is stuck in between two amazing siblings. This is how Allison Avery feels. Her sisters are pretty and talented while she is just... plain.
In the middle of the night, Allison wakes up to find the devil in her room! Instead of freaking out, she more or so assumes it is a dream. She trades her cellphone in exchange for having seven people to think she is gorgeous.
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In the middle of the night, Allison wakes up to find the devil in her room! Instead of freaking out, she more or so assumes it is a dream. She trades her cellphone in exchange for having seven people to think she is gorgeous.
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Nov 14, 2010
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Feb 06, 2011
Bookworm1858
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Summary: The second book in a trilogy dealing with the Avery sisters, whose mother, the breadwinner, has just lost her job affecting them in a variety of ways. This book is about the middle daughter Allison who has always felt herself to be the least pretty and least valued of the family. She ends up selling her cell to the devil for a chance at gorgeousness.
I know that I read Lucky, the first book, but I didn't really remember it. That is okay; these books can be read in any order a More...
I know that I read Lucky, the first book, but I didn't really remember it. That is okay; these books can be read in any order a More...
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Jan 27, 2010
Michelle
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This book isn't about love or life particularly, however, it's about a girl, Allison, giving up her cellphone to the devil so she can be "beautiful." The ironic part is everyone already thinks she's gorgeous. The reason she feels this way is because she has older sisters that are blonde while she's a brunette. Allison gets to get her chance of being "gorgeous" but now she encounters some conflict. She's unable to trust anyone anymore because she doesn't know whether people li
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Jul 22, 2009
Lucy
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Allison Avery is the middle child in the perfect Avery family, and the only one who isn't perfect. She's smack in the middle of brilliant, hardworking Quinn and charmed, adorable Phoebe. She's the one her father has to read parenting books about, and has to count to ten and take deep breaths when he talks to her. She's the one her grandmother, after complimenting the looks of both her sisters, called interesting.
Allison moves through school hidden behind bangs and sweatshirts, tra More...
Allison moves through school hidden behind bangs and sweatshirts, tra More...
Jul 18, 2010
$hanel
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Allison Avery is what you would call the "interesting looking dark haired" Avery girl. Allison`s two other sisters, Quinn and Phoebe are what you call beautiful and blonde. Allison feels that she will never be beautiful like her sisters until the devil visits her room one night and says that he can make her gorgeous, but under one condition: he wants her cell phone! Allison is going through friendship troubles at school and getting through the fact that she has her first boyfriend. Wil
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Jun 25, 2010
Kris
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Rachel Vail is so good at contemporary chick lit that reads well for teens & adults. I didn't think I'd enjoy this one as much as Brilliant but actually enjoyed it more. Vail's examination/description of Allison (protagonist) was excellent-spot-on--and rang true for a former teen. I am looking forward to the 3rd book in the trilogy about the Avery sisters. They are shaping up as good summertime reads that aren't completely airheaded.
Jan 01, 2010
Ashleigh
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A girl named Allison Avery strikes a deal with the devil - he trades her seven people that thinks she's gorgeous, for her cell phone. But life isn't so easy with her family's financial crisis, being stuck as the middle child, and ow having to see which friends are real and which just like her now that she's pretty. The only disapointment to this book was that it didn't have much suprsises. It was predicitble.
Mar 03, 2011
Michelle.
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Bah, I couldn't finish this book. I read half of it and then just gave up. T.T
I mean, it was kinda interesting but didn't interest me enough to actually finish reading it...
The characters bored me and kinda annoyed me sometimes. Especially the main character!!! I currently forgot her name and am too lazy to look it up.
I HATE IT WHEN THEY HAPPENS! When you forget the character's name that is...
Bah, I wasted time reading this book. I feel bad. T.T
I mean, it was kinda interesting but didn't interest me enough to actually finish reading it...
The characters bored me and kinda annoyed me sometimes. Especially the main character!!! I currently forgot her name and am too lazy to look it up.
I HATE IT WHEN THEY HAPPENS! When you forget the character's name that is...
Bah, I wasted time reading this book. I feel bad. T.T
Sep 08, 2010
Peace Love
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Ok I do not feel like beating around the bushes for this one so...
Apparently selling your soul to the devil has become so overrated so Allison Avery made a bargain to him and sol her cell phone instead. I actually think that is cool, what I do not think is cool is Allison Avery herself. The whole book her personality is consistent. While I do appreciate that her personality is extremely depression. Her self esteem is an epic low. She let's her best friend pushes her around and has nothing More...
Apparently selling your soul to the devil has become so overrated so Allison Avery made a bargain to him and sol her cell phone instead. I actually think that is cool, what I do not think is cool is Allison Avery herself. The whole book her personality is consistent. While I do appreciate that her personality is extremely depression. Her self esteem is an epic low. She let's her best friend pushes her around and has nothing More...
Jul 22, 2011
Emma
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Gorgeous is a stunning book about how a insecure girl finds out her beauty, her inner and outer beauty. I loved this book and I loved watching Avery, the main character, grows. The story starts with Avery not liking her appearance, being a bit rude, and sometimes mean. Her sisters are both what people think is gorgeous. The Devil comes along and offers to make people think she's gorgeous for her cell phone. Wanting to take him up on the deal, she says yes, and starts on a modeling route after ca
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Jan 20, 2011
Bellaevansleslie
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growing up between two perfect sisters isn;t easy ..allison dosen't want to be invisible any more she has a stuck up best frien a crush and a new best frien ...would u sell ur phone to the devil to be possesed just to be gorgeous find out how and why allison dose
Feb 05, 2011
Chels
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This is one of my favorite books of all time. I honestly believe this book is one of the best things ever written. Thank you Rachel Vail for bringing bedeviled cellphones into my life :)
Jun 08, 2010
Burgess
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This was a very good book because I liked how they use to devil to help a person understand something. Like, In order to be beautiful you need to believe you are. Or something like that.
Jun 27, 2009
Sandra
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Surprising things happen after Allison bargains her cell phone with the devil in order to be gorgeous. The ninth grader learns a few things about herself, her family and her friends along the way. This book might appeal to middle school students as well as 9th and 10th graders.
Jul 10, 2011
Alison
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Haha this book amused me. :) It was a pretty normal high school story... except for the fact that the girl sells her cell phone (rather than her soul haha) to the devil.
Feb 26, 2011
Paola ( :
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I think this book was amazing, it is one of my favorite books, and it just shows how a girl thought she was just ugly but then she realized how gorgeous she was.
