Choice Book Report 3 -Beautiful Malice

Part 1

For my third quarter book report I read Beautiful Malice by Rebecca James. The main character in this book is Katherine, not Kat, not Katie; Katherine. The story is told in the present and future. Katherine also tells us about her sister, Rachel, who was murdered.

In the beginning of the book Katherine is very quiet. After her sister died Katherine changed her name and now she doesn't talk to anyone. She used to be fun, carefree Katie Boydell. After her sister died she didn't want people to know that she was a Boydell sister so she changed her name to Katherine Patterson and went to live with her aunt. She became very focus on school. When Katherine started high school she kept to herself. Katherine says that she is living her life as a shadow. She never goes to parties. She doesn't talk to people and she would rather people not know she was there.

Katherine is very loving. In Beautiful Malice you also get to read about Katherine's life when she has a child. Katherine only want the best for her daughter, Sarah. She trys to set the best example possible for Sarah and try to pretend that nothing is wrong in her life. When they go on vacation, Katherine makes sure that Sarah has the most fun possible. When Katherine meets her old guy friend ,Sarah ask if he is going to be her daddy. By the end of the book Katherine calls him. Katherine is very loving and wants her daughter have the "perfect" life because she didn't. Katherine also feels that her sisters death was her fault. She loved her sister and she realizes that she made a mistake. All she wants to do is be able to go back and change the some of the things she did that night. She loves her sister so much that sometimes she wishes she was the one that had died that night.

Before Katherine's sister died she was very carefree. She was the party child and her sister was the scholar. The night Katherine's sister died they were at a party that they had snuck out to. Katherine left her phone, turned off, at her friends house. On the way to the party they shared a bottle of lemonade and alcohol. They meet boys at the party. Katherine didn't stay with her sister and she found her later with a group of guy in their car. She was holding a a beer bottle and was very drunk. Instead of getting help she accepted a ride from the strangers to get her sister home. Only one of the sisters made it home that night.


Part 2

Point of view:

Beautiful Malice is told from Katherine's point of view. It is important for the story to be told from her point of view because it is about her life and we need to know what she is thinking. If the book wasn't from Katherines point of veiw we would be missing a lot of information and Alice would seem nice.

When Katherine was telling us about how her sister was murdered it is important that it was told from her point of view because we find out what happened. We also get to learn how she felt and why she made the choice she did. (I don't want to give anything away...)

If Beautiful Malice was told from Alice's point of view , the book would be very different. We wouldn't know much about Rachel. We would only the story that Katherine told to Alice about the night Rachel was killed. We would probably also think that Alice was nice because we would only know her side of the story. Alice says and does a lot of mean things because she feels she is getting revenge. If the book was told from her point of view we would know why she wanted revenge but not what Katherine thought of Alice.