Girl in the mirror

1998 • 440 pages

Charlotte Godowski was used to the horrified stares she received from strangers. She'd learned to accept her facial deformity, until one cruel incident compelled her to have the surgery that changed her life forever.Charlotte Godfrey is beautiful beyond compare. In Hollywood, where such beauty is power, her rise is meteoric. Suddenly she has everything she could want: acceptance, a future and a love she believes can see to the true beauty within.Charlotte Godowski and Charlotte Godfrey are two sides of the same woman—a woman who can trust no one with her secret. But when fate forces Charlotte to deal with the truth—about her past, about the man she loves, about herself—she discovers that only love has the power to transform a scarred soul.

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Kathrine

First off this book felt incredibly dated, even with the updates the author supposedly made (I'm not going to try to track down an original copy to compare. So not worth my time).

How many social issues can an author shoe horn into 400 pages? Apparently too many. Plastic surgery vs beauty? Check. Child Abuse? Check. HIV+? Check. Familial obligations? Check. Race issues? Check. It was like a bad Lifetime movie. To make matters worse, only one of those issues was truly about the ‘Girl in the Mirror'. The rest were all from said Girl's boyfriend/fiance and his family. By the halfway point, I was thinking someone should have suggested changing the title.

While I liked the idea behind the story and think it's worth discussing, giving the protagonist an obvious, major facial deformity wasn't the way to start that conversation.

Decent writing and a good beginning (even if it all went downhill very fast) was enough for me to give it 2 stars instead of 1.

October 26, 2012