Serena Davidson leads two lives. At school, she's a morbidly obese, stupid, nerdy, bitchy, slutty, and a teacher's pet. But at home she's the scrawny vegetarian pushover. What would possess someone to wear a fat suit every day? And what happens when someone finds out?
Plot: Serena Davidson has two different personalities. She has her confident, doesn't allow anyone to walk over her, she's straight A student, and is fat side at school. At home she is a pushover, who isn't really that confident, vegetarian, and is skinny. She has a project going on at her high school that no one knows about but her brother. Everyday she wears a fat suit to school. And everyday she gets picked on and called these awful name, but yet still where's this fat suit to school everyday. She was inspired after her mother's death and cause her mother was an actress. One day she had to go to the store. Someone from her school found out. He blackmailed her. Soon he stops blackmailing her and and they actually became friends. Soon Kurt's girlfriend finds out he has feelings for Serena. She wasn't mad, she saw this coming. And the day she revealed who she really was, he revealed that he had feelings for her.
Characteristics: She grew from the person who thought that she needed the fat suit for her confidence and became confident without it and realized she didn't need that suit to be confident
Personal Response: I like this book but also don't it's a great story and truly shows how bigger people are treated on a day to day basis ,but I did not like it because, I hated the fact she was able to go home and take the fat off and it does show how it is but doesn't at the same time it didn't show how it is when you go home and the only thing you can think about is those insults and she didn't have that because those insults didn't go to her it went to the fat suit.
Recommendations: Mature audience because of the cursing and the pure meanness in this book only read if you can handle the harshness of the people in this book.
A girl named Serena Davidson ( Rena) wears a fat suit to school everyday to help her become an actress but it is also inspired due to her mom's death. Rena goes to willow heights high school and has been bullied all throughout it. Only her brother knows about her secret until One day while she was grocery shopping without her fat suit and she drops her wallet. A cashier picks it up who also happens to a student at her high school. He realizes it's her and now he knows her secret. Then as the book continues her development as a character depends and she has progress with self discovery, self confidence and getting over her mom's death. At the end she finally reveals that she isn't fat, while showing them how wrong they were to judge her and ridicule her due to weight when I'm reality that is not the things that should matter in life. She ends up falling in love with cashier (trent). The connection with the real world this book illustrates is the demonstration of the media biased mindset and the infatuation we have with being skinny. It also deals with her battling with herself and her mother's death which took a huge toll on her. She was never able to recover and instead of facing it head on she decided to hide from it. she figures out that she doesnt need to hide in that fat suit to be confident and that she shouldnt be afraid of the ridicule and other peoples opinion of her. I really liked this book and The view they have on society was also a good lesson that we need to know and perhaps change.The author described emotions and surrounding very well and the book was over all well written. It actually connected to me in a off brand sort of way, I use to be extremely self conscious and so I wore tons of makeup. When people ridiculed and made fun of it it didn't hurt as bad as I did when they would make fun of me for my actually facial features. So it could put on a mask starting about 5th grade because it was easier but it was the thing to do. Since Highschool i have come to realize that. Whether we are fat, skinny, ugly, pretty, smart, dumb, it means nothing. All those names people are called or labeled as is just a society brain washing us to fit into a category where we might never belong. just because we have been trained to thrive for one image does not mean that it is the right image. We should judge by character and not by what we are made to think our goals should be, what we are made to think what is correct.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
Sadly this book never got finished, so I'll put it under read, but without a finish date. I did really enjoy the book/story though! Loved the concept and that she had someone to trust. And even though it's been years since I read it: I will never forget the Uranus joke. <3
It makes me so sad to know that this book isn't finished yet, but I'm still hopeful that I'll get to read the end and know that Rena chooses Liam. ;) #TeamRiam