Since I adored Conversations with the Fat Girl, I couldn't wait to get my hands on Palmer's second novel. The heroine of Seeing Me Naked is Elisabeth Page, daughter of Pulitzer-winning novelist Ben Page and sister of up-and-coming writer Rascal Page (yeah, that's short for Raskolnikov). Elisabeth is a pastry chef in L.A.'s hottest restaurant, but she's under constant pressure from her family to do more with her life. She's also stuck in a going-nowhere-fast relationship with journalist Will, who's always halfway around the world on a story. When beer-drinking basketball coach Daniel Sullivan enters her life, at first she views him as a relaxing fling, but her feelings soon deepen and cause her to question her whole way of life. Although Seeing Me Naked is technically chick lit, it's a lot more than just a cute romance. The main focus is Elisabeth's growth and development, and her relationship with her family is given a lot of weight. It's not as consistently lighthearted as Conversations with the Fat Girl; the tone was more somber, though there were quite a few laugh-out-loud moments too. Liza Palmer is a really good writer, and I'd recommend anything by her. In my opinion, as chick lit goes, she's at the top of the genre.

Elizabeth Page is a 5 star chef. She works in a field that is completely oppisite of her famous father and brother who are writers. She is waiting for the man she thinks she loves to love her enough to stay and trying to figure out where her life is really going. Since her five/eleven year plan is failing her.
At one of her mother's charity auctions she meets a man she thought she would never fall for. It turns out that she fell in love with him anyway.
This book is a definition of dysfunctional. Father making out with son's current fling in the kitchen at a family dinner, Fist fight at Thanksgiving, Chef that degrads and disrespects his employees.
I think what saved this book was the ending. The initmate life changing event of witnessing a child being born, and a boyfriend willing to put aside his ego for just one minute to see the bigger picture. I think Daniel's character was a wonderful fantasy but I don't think it was very realistic that he would get Elizabeth's insecurities and fears without her having to spell them out ( )