title: Waking Beauty: A Novel
author:  Elyse Friedman 
description: Friedman (<i>Then Again</i>) offers up a spunky, spiteful revenge novel about Allison Penny, an ugly 20-something who suddenly wakes up gorgeousa silly conceit counterbalanced by bulls-eye social commentary and sharply drawn characters. Allison's roommate, Virginie, and her boyfriend, Fraser, have long made Allison's life hell; pretty much everybody is inconsiderate of pretransformation Allison, including her own adoptive mother. Her only friend is Nathan, a video store clerk and aspiring film critic. Early chapters catalogue the injustices of a world in which unattractive people can't get ahead, while later chapters satisfyingly knock down the pins lined up earlier: Allison gets revenge on Virginie, Fraser, her mother and a supporting cast of shop girls, literati and other pretentious types. But she hasn't become beautiful just to get revenge, has she? "Did I have some sort of beauty duty to perform? And if so, what would it be? Posing naked for a PETA billboard? Administering blowjobs to ugly outcasts?" No, but there's a lesson here: "it's what's on the outside that counts." Beautiful Allison gets handsome suitors, job offerseven her mother's affection. But she's kept her sharp, sardonic view of all things superficial, and she still loves homely Nathan. Friedman thumbs her nose at many of the conventions of chick lit, and the nasty bite of her prose offers plenty of guilty pleasure. <br />Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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  Beauty Awakened
  
  
  Subscribe, Live, Love Book 4
  
  
  Allyson Lindt
  
  
  This book is a work of fiction.
  
  
  While reference might be made to actual historical events or existing
  locations, the names, characters, places and incidents are either the product
  of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to
  actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales is
  entirely coincidental.
  
  
  Copyright © 2019 by Allyson Lindt
  
  
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  # Table of Contents
  
  
  [Copyright Page](c001.xhtml)
  
  
  [Beauty Awakened (Subscribe, Live, Love, #4)](c002.xhtml)
  
  
  [Chapter One](c003.xhtml)
  
  
  [Chapter Two](c004.xhtml)
  
  
  [Chapter Three](c005.xhtml)
  
  
  [Chapter Four](c006