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Title: The Look

Author: Sophia Bennett

Narrator: Helen McAlpine

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-05-12

Publisher: Whole Story Audiobooks

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Life in front of the camera is harder than it looks... When Ted is spotted by a model agency, she can't believe it. At the same time her gorgeous sister, Ava, is diagnosed with cancer. With her world turned upside down, Ted has a lot of growing up to do, some of it in five-inch platforms. Can she be a supermodel and a super sister? Or will she have to choose between fame and family?

Members Reviews:

touching story of 2 sisters and the paths their lives take them in

When I first read the synopsis for this book, I was intrigued. I thought it would be interesting to see how the author meshed the two subjects of the (in my opinion) very superficial world of modeling, and the very real, scary and serious world of living with cancer. I knew from the synopsis that Ava was the sister who finds out she has cancer, and Ted was the sister who has the modeling job.

In the first chapter we learn that Ted has no interest in the fashion industry, and Ava is obsessed with it.

This is how I *thought* the story would play out:

Ava would be jealous from the beginning of Ted's career, trying to talk her out of going to calls, trying to sabotage her career so it doesn't even become one. She would hold on to her jealousy and turn bitter and against her sister, all the while all her sister would want to do is be there for Ava in her time of need. Eventually things would come to a head, Ted would make it big, and realize at the height of her career, what was really important, and rush to her sister's bedside, where she would inevitably be on her deathbed. Once sisters reunite and get rid of their petty jealousy and anger, Ava would make a miraculous recovery, and they would live happily ever after.

Imagine my surprise when I was wrong. I was impressed with Ava's character, and her very obvious love for her sister. If it couldn't be her, it better be Ted. I was doubly impressed with Ted's character, when she shows her strength and love for her sister when they get matching hair-dos (read the book).

The author talks about all of the modeling scams that are out there and mentions them for a reason. They are real, and they are important to know about. I loved the fact that the author was very real-to-life when it came to the modeling business. She explained how things work, how things get started, how not everyone makes it big, and how no one gets pulled off the street and makes it big in 30 seconds, like what happens in the movies.

I liked the book, but there were a couple things that were not to my liking. The very biggest one, and a mistake that a lot of authors make (and seen so many times in movies, it's scary) is that she's "dated" her book: She mentions things that are hot topics currently, and in a few years, no one is going to know what she's talking about. For instance ~ "I think of Kristen Stewart â she was a great vampire. Maybe I could look like her: pale and sulky." Kristen Stewart is a fad because of the twilight books and movies. No one is going to have a clue who she is in 10 years. (Keeping my opinion about her out of this lol) there were a few times I read something she'd put in there and thought 'no, no, no. WHY'...not to pick on Sophia Bennett, I say this about anyone who does this.

The second thing is the love story, using the word story very loosely.