Rose McClelland is a relatively new author from Belfast who
was previously a blogger and a reviewer. How To Look Like You is her second
book and will be released as an e-book on 5th July. I was lucky
enough to receive an advance copy of the book for review. I enjoyed the book.
It is of the chick-lit genre and is a perfect summer read. I actually thought
it was quite short at 178 pages, but this makes it ideal for reading in a day
on the beach.
The story revolves around two girls, Chloe and Ella. Chloe is
a stereotypically perfect size eight blonde bombshell who is in a steady
relationship with a great all round guy who is in a band. Ella is a bubbly
talented and likeable girl who quickly falls in love with the guy from the
band.
The story is told from each girl’s perspective alternately
by chapter. I thought this was a pretty good way of telling the story and it
made it much easier to follow than it might have been otherwise. It was quite
good to see both sides of the story as it happens and in the first person, I
think it made the characters more believable. This also made me a little
frustrated with the characters as well because the main thing for me in the
story was that the two girls were both perfectly likeable and if they hadn’t
been so busy convincing themselves that the other was a bitch, they might have
actually been good friends. Listening to both sides of the story made me feel
like I was actually one of their friends kind of caught in the middle and so it
was quite engaging in that respect.
