Perfecting+Kate

**Perfecting Kate** by Tamara Leigh

This story by Tamara Leigh begins with a middle aged artist named Kate describing all of her outward beauty flaws. First, is overcoming the denial and admitting that she is a bit overweight. Next, is the awful mole that appeared on the side of her cheek, and the gap between her teeth. She stares at herself listing all of her imperfections. Days later, Kate meets this handsome doctor, but she believes she does not have a chance until he approaches her asking about her business. She lands a job with this dreamy man. It is to paint a mural on the Children's Burn Recovery Branch of his hospital. Some days later while out with her attractive roommate, she meets a famous makeup artist, Michael, who specializes in makeovers. His smile is surprisingly extended to her instead of her roommate. As Kate and Michael begin their relationship, he transforms her look by encouraging contacts, highlights, removal of her mole, and other modifications. She begins focusing on her outward appearances and pushes her relationship with Christ aside. Meanwhile, at work Dr. Clive and Kate have disputes over the Spiritual influence in her artwork. She sees him frequently and they finally move past their differences and become friends. He encourages her to show her natural beauty despite Michael's advice. As time passes, Kate finds that her roommate, Maia, and Michael are perfect for each other. Maia has a crush on him and he shows interest in her. Kate gets into an arguement with Michael that ends the relationship. Shortly after, Dr. Clive and Kate spend more time alone and find themselves falling in love with each other. She is worried that he will not love her because she cannot have children and he does not openly talk about his faith. After spending more time with Kate, Clive renews his beliefs in Christianity and proves his love by marrying her. To solve the problem of no children, they adopt several and create a wonderful family. Kate, who never believed in herself and had a weakening faith, became a strong woman of God, and changed to be beautiful inside and out.

I really enjoyed this book. It is definitely a book for girls. I loved the romance and beauty aspects of it. It shows how a woman should look at herself and feel confident about the way God made her. Every girl should understand that she is beautiful and should have someone to love them for who they are-without makeup. This book helps to illustrate the way a woman should feel about herself. Tamara Leigh has a wonderful sense of humor that is displayed through this book. Her writing is full of funny comments that make the book easy to read. It is a fun book and I would recomend it to any girl looking for a cute story!