SuitabookGorgeous
Rachel Vail
- Reading
- Discuss the bargain and its costs separately from the excitement of attention. Later, consider whether Allison’s relationships seem trustworthy and how the family’s circumstances affect her choices.
- Themes
- Appearance and recognition: Allison changes from feeling like the less conventionally attractive sister to receiving attention because she is gorgeous. The book?s stance on this remains unclear.
- Trust and relationships: Allison questions whether her new friends and boyfriend like her as a person or only for her appearance. Relationships are presented as uncertain and potentially shaped by appearance, without enough information to judge which people are trustworthy.
- Choices under pressure: Allison’s bargain intersects with a possessed phone, possible teen modelling and her family’s financial crisis. The story places personal ambition and family circumstances alongside supernatural consequences, but does not show how these pressures are resolved.
- Worth knowing
- The book includes a devilish bargain, a possessed mobile phone, uncertain romantic and social attention, modelling pressure, and a family financial crisis; the extent of darker material is unclear.