Definitions are lacking.

This is a photo book from Suicide Girls. There really isn't a specific author. There are a lot of photographers that are credited in this book. This is a photo book, so there is no real author to this; instead, they selected great pictures from some of their most popular models. The way that the site works, the girls can use their own photographers, so that's how you end up with so many amazing styles of photography. I have to give it to Suicide Girls; they really selected beautiful girls that were shot by amazingly talented photographers.

This book is broken down into sections. The girls are listed by region. The regions are: California, West Coast, Mid West, South, East Coast, Canada, U.K., Europe, South America, and Everywhere Else.

So, Suicide Girls promotes itself as a site that embraces all types of women regardless of size, look, hair color, race, and celebrates their unique beauty, but this book shows where they are lacking. There are women featured from around the world of all different ethnicities, but you are hard pressed to find a woman that isn't thin in this book. I have a membership to the site, and the few women that are thicker that have pictures in this book from the rib cage up. I find this offensive because they claim at the front of the book that "These images are our rejection of that barbie doll ideal".

They are only rejecting certain parts of that ideal.

This is a gorgeous book. It has thick pages and a very sturdy cover. The dust jacket is shiny with matte lettering. It does have the Suicide Girls logo on it, but it isn't covered with naked girls. I am very comfortable leaving this on my bookshelf in my living room even when I have the in-laws over.

I am a bit of a book snob, and I was really impressed with the quality of this book.

I got this book because I love Suicide girls. I love that they embrace the alternative, but this book just highlighted the issues that are emerging with the site. Their ideal is skinny and too often white. There isn't the diversity in this book that I feel there should be for a company that claims to break out of the Barbie doll ideal. I was disappointed, but that disappointment is with Suicide Girls in general.