Size 12 Is Not Fat
Ratings33
Average rating3.5
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Ratings33
Average rating3.5
HEATHER WELLS ROCKS!
Or, at least, she did. That was before she left the pop-idol life behind after she gained a dress size or two -- and lost a boyfriend, a recording contract, and her life savings (when Mom took the money and ran off to Argentina). Now that the glamour and glory days of endless mall appearances are in the past, Heather's perfectly happy with her new size 12 shape (the average for the American woman!) and her new job as an assistant dorm director at one of New York's top colleges. That is, until the dead body of a female student from Heather's residence hall is discovered at the bottom of an elevator shaft.
The cops and the college president are ready to chalk the death off as an accident, the result of reckless youthful mischief. But Heather knows teenage girls . . . and girls do not elevator surf. Yet no one wants to listen -- not the police, her colleagues, or the P.I. who owns the brownstone where she lives -- even when more students start turning up dead in equally ordinary and subtly sinister ways. So Heather makes the decision to take on yet another new career: as spunky girl detective!
But her new job comes with few benefits, no cheering crowds, and lots of liabilities, some of them potentially fatal. And nothing ticks off a killer more than a portly ex-pop star who's sticking her nose where it doesn't belong . . .
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Meg Cabot is the best and no one can tell me otherwise.
So glad I found this gem.
I very much enjoyed this book, but what seemed to me to be inconsistencies in tense (sometimes past, sometimes present) really distracted me. The switches in tense may have been correct for when each bit was set in the time frame of the moment; I lost track, so I'm not sure. Either way, though I found it very distracting from an otherwise quite enjoyable read. Four stars but for the distraction.
A cute light read that I finished while on vacation in summer. I loved the corny music lyrics that began each chapter and her relationship with Jordan (nonexistent but hilarious!) Meg Cabot did a great job with this.
Super cute! Meg Cabot is so dependable with her funny-neurotic heroines and pop culture references. I read this on a plane, which was the perfect place to read it. I don't generally go for mysteries but I did because it was Meg Cabot, and I liked Heather Wells enough to want to read the next one even if I'm NOT on a plane.
Oh and given the title I was a little nervous that this was going to be like way heavy-handed on the body-image talk but it wasn't. It was regular-handed. I should have trusted Meg Cabot. Sorry, Meg.
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5 primary booksHeather Wells is a 4-book series with 4 primary works first released in 2005 with contributions by Meg Cabot and Patricia Cabot.
