Beautiful Monster (Kate McCaffrey) Let me start by saying that I had mixed feelings about this book. I went in with high expectations. Beautiful Monster had been recommended to me as a great read, and as I had read In Ecstasy ( also by Kate McCaffrey) and thought it to be a highly intelligent and worthwhile book, I was expecting another novel of the same calibre. In Ecstasy deals with the attractions and dangers of dabbling with Ecstasy as a teenager - everyone should read it! Beautiful Monster deals with anorexia, another important topic for teenagers...but I found that it just didn't engage. The story follows teenager Tess, who, after losing her brother to a terrible accident has to deal with this loss, all the while witnessing her mother breaking apart with grief. The strained family relationships and Tess' own belief that if she could just be perfect, everything would get better, make for a destructive combination. ...
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