SuitabookSkin deep
Malaika Rose Stanley
- Reading
- Read together if useful, pausing to ask what Destiny wants others to recognise in her; decide as you go whether the contest’s pressures feel enjoyable or difficult.
- Themes
- Appearance and ability: Destiny enters a beauty contest hoping to show that she has talent and brains as well as being attractive. The outline establishes this tension but not whether the story ultimately challenges or supports the contest’s emphasis on looks.
- Bullying and confrontation: Destiny faces scary confrontations with Bella, identified as a bully. The outline confirms conflict but does not show how Bella is treated or how the confrontations resolve.
- Ambition and family trust: Destiny enters the contest behind her former-model mother’s back. The secret entry sets up a possible difference between Destiny’s ambitions and her mother’s wishes, but the mother’s response is unknown.
- Worth knowing
- The story includes confrontations with a character described as a bully, and a serious disaster; its intensity and consequences are not clear.