Alessandra Thomas: Picture Perfect and Subject to Change

Alessandra Thomas

Series: Picturing Perfect

Book One: Picture Perfect

Synopsis:

Fashion design major Cat Mitchell has a closet full of gorgeous clothes - and not a single thing fits. After two years of runway modeling for easy cash, an accident shattered her lower leg bone and her self-esteem in just one swift fall. Ten months of no exercise, prescription steroids, comfort eating and yoga pants meant returning to campus as a size twelve instead of her former size two. 

When her gorgeous long-time friend with benefits sees her for the first time after her accident and snubs her in front of all her friends, Cat’s self-image hits rock bottom. Her sorority sisters all insist that she looks gorgeous, but all Cat sees is the roll of her stomach when she sits down, or the dimpling at the back of her thighs that wasn't there last year. Cat’s therapist prescribes something radical to stop the downward spiral - nude modeling for a nearby college's human form drawing classes. 

When Cat faces her fears and bares it all for the class, she realizes that she's posing naked in front the most gorgeous, buffest guy she's ever seen in her life. He asks her out after the class, and after one steamy night and six weeks of perfect dates together, Cat's absolutely smitten.

But when Cat goes home with Nate for Thanksgiving, she discovers something shocking from his recent past that proves that he hasn’t always been so encouraging of women of all shapes and sizes. Cat has no idea what to think, but she does know one thing - this might destroy their relationship before it's even had a chance to get off the ground. 

Before Cat can figure out whether the real Nate is the sensitive, adoring guy she fell in love with, or an undercover asshole, she'll have to finally feel comfortable in her own skin - even if it means leaving him forever.

(This book contains sex and adult language.)

Publication Date: November 17, 2013

Review:

I loved how this story shows a different side of being insecure. 
Cat grew up being stick figure small-the perfect model body. She was even a runway model until she got hurt. She ended up gaining weight but was average looking. She thought she looked fat, but knew that she just needed to accept that this was the way she was going to look from now on. She goes to therapy to discuss how things are going and her therapist persuades her into trying modeling for a human form class. She faces her fears and meets the hottest guy. Things are going well, but when she goes home with him for Thanksgiving things go south. 
 Great story about finding love while also trying to find a way to love yourself. 
A real tear-jerker.










Book Two: Subject to Change

Synopsis:

Joey made her dad a deathbed promise that she would become a doctor, and dedicate herself to fighting the very cancer that took his life. There’s just one problem -three years into her pre-med classes, she's struggling to stay on top of the curve, let alone prove she's dazzling enough to earn a spot in an Ivy League medical school. In a Hail Mary move, she throws a basic Business 101 class into her semester schedule, banking on a perfect score to boost her GPA.

That is, until she’s paired for a final project with Hawk, the bartending, motorbike-riding, gorgeously bedheaded loser who falls asleep in class and communicates in one-word sentences.

Hawk does whatever he wants, whenever he wants, which sets Joey on edge – in every possible way. As they get to know each other, her urge to scream at him is curbed only by her fantasies of tearing his clothes off. Soon those fantasies become reality, and Joey realizes Hawk makes her feel more fully herself than any of the rich boys her mother and sorority sisters approve of.

But the promise to her father hangs over her head, and the harder Joey tries to succeed in her chosen career, the faster everything falls into a hopeless tailspin of bad grades, broken promises and guilt. It doesn't help to have Hawk sitting like a devil on her shoulder, insisting she should be free to live however she wants to live - like he does.

The only thing Joey knows is that her neatly organized life is crushing her - and Hawk's bad attitude might be the only thing that can save her.

Publication Date: June 14, 2013

Review:

A little disappointed that this was not a continuation of the story about Cat and Nate, but it was still a great story.
Joey had always assumed she would become a doctor. She had made a promise to him, but after being in school for three years, she was struggling with trying to keep her promise to him.
She decides she needs an easy class to help boost her GPA. She wasn't counting on being paired with a hot guy for the final project. 
Joey meets Hawk. 
Hawk is the type of guy that does whatever, whenever he wants to. 
Joey falls for Hawk. And that is when the real story begins.
This book will keep you captivated from the very first page. You are filled with real and raw emotions that you can't help but to express. Whether you start crying or are laughing out loud. It will not be contained. 
It reminds you that you need to follow your heart, even if someone has to give you a little push in the beginning.




Book Three: Drop Everything Now

Synopsis:

Andi rushes home from college to Vegas after a serious car wreck leaves her mother severely injured. Unable to stay with her mother and stepfather in their small townhouse, she bunks down in a seedy hotel and meets Ryder Strong - stripper extraordinaire. Liking him - or anyone like him - wasn't in her plans. Will she let him in enough to change them?

Ryder hasn’t had a single genuine thing in his life since he started stripping, teasing and pleasing for a room full of partying girls – even though what he really wants is a real job and a normal life. Could Andi change his fortune?

Things heat up fast between them, until an ill-informed encounter with a penis pump leaves Ryder's sexy ass couch-ridden and jobless for more than a week. The only joystick Andi can use is the one on Ryder's video game controllers. Getting to know Ryder leads to falling in love – and Andi realizes she might actually like being in Vegas for the first time in her life. But her languishing grades back in Philly and her mother's rapidly improving health tell her it's time to go.

When life takes the scariest turn imaginable, can these two turn it into a happy ending - for both of them?

Publication Date: September 12, 2013

Review:

Have not read yet, but looking forward to purchasing and reading what this story will be about!