She's tall, blond, and has an enviable body. But with one turn of her cheek, all people notice is her unmistakably "flawed" face. Terra secretly plans to leave her stifling small town in the Northwest and escape to an East Coast college, but gets pushed off-course by her controlling father. When an unexpected collision puts Terra directly in Jacob's path, the handsome but quirky Goth boy immediately challenges her assumptions about herself and her life, and she is forced in yet another direction. With her carefully laid plans disrupted, will Terra be able to find her true path?
I couldn’t put this book down when I first started to read it. Terra is very relatable as a mature young adult. Despite her physical flaw of a port wine stain spread over half of her face that she spends an hour every morning desperately trying to cover up with makeup and the countless hours moulding every other aspect of her life to be perfect (running, eating healthy, art, hair, clothes) to compensate for her “flaw” Terra is so charming and real you can imagine her as a real person.
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