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3.67 AVERAGE
3.67 AVERAGE
I might even say 3.5. This was a fun getaway novel that was just what I needed.
I really enjoyed Heather Wells. I respected who she was as a person and found her to be funny. The mystery was also intriguing. I enjoyed the first two novels in the series more than the third but they all were pretty good.
fun little read, reminded me a little of Stephanie Plum books, a good vacation read!
Listen. Maybe size 12 is fat. That’s fine. I’d rather read a book about someone who doesn’t obsess over their size. The fact that this ended up being a mystery series fuuuuully threw me for a loop. Wasn’t expecting that at all. Heather’s “quirks” regarding her size got old fast.
I read four books of the five book series over the course of the labor day weekend. It was a little confusing figuring out Heather Wells backstory, because there are inconsistencies across the books. Heather Wells was a teenage pop star. Father was either in prison for tax evasion or writing bad checks, either after she became a pop star or his imprisonment was the impetus for her mother pushing her to be a rock star. The story changes in each book. Her record label dropped her when she wanted to play original songs, her mother stole all her money and fled the US with Heather's manager, and Heather caught her fiancé with another woman. Now she's assistant director of a college dorm and does the billing for her landlord/love interest/brother of her ex-fiancé, in exchange for rent. I can't really tell how much time separates the rock star days from the present days. It seems to vacillate. I read a lot of book series and some authors do it really well and some forget details or change details from book to book, as did Meg Cabot in this series. I'm surprised because she has had tons of experience in series books.
I was a little sad that although Heather is supposed to be a plus-sized heroine...Size 12 REALLY is average. She is always either miffed that someone called her fat or apologizing for her weight and wishing she wore a size eight. For someone who really is plus-sized, this could all be very insulting. I would have admired her more if she was honestly confident in her average size, followed a healthy diet, and exercised regularly. Instead, she eats junk...Dove Bars and Oreo double stuffed cookies...and then complains about being an average size 12. Come on! It's surprising that she doesn't REALLY have a weight problem.
Heather came across like a cross between Alicia Silverstone in Clueless and Mandy Moore. Saying all that, I obviously was engaged enough and entertained enough to plow through four books in three days. They are kind of like Dove Bars in that respect. I will be looking for the fifth book in the series in 2013...and it's a good think I like literary Dove Bars...they are better for my figure.
I was a little sad that although Heather is supposed to be a plus-sized heroine...Size 12 REALLY is average. She is always either miffed that someone called her fat or apologizing for her weight and wishing she wore a size eight. For someone who really is plus-sized, this could all be very insulting. I would have admired her more if she was honestly confident in her average size, followed a healthy diet, and exercised regularly. Instead, she eats junk...Dove Bars and Oreo double stuffed cookies...and then complains about being an average size 12. Come on! It's surprising that she doesn't REALLY have a weight problem.
Heather came across like a cross between Alicia Silverstone in Clueless and Mandy Moore. Saying all that, I obviously was engaged enough and entertained enough to plow through four books in three days. They are kind of like Dove Bars in that respect. I will be looking for the fifth book in the series in 2013...and it's a good think I like literary Dove Bars...they are better for my figure.
Picked up this book on Nook to read during a long bus ride. Entertaining, quick read. Not deep on any level, but that's not what I needed.
One of the commenters on my updates nailed it perfectly for why I really didn't care for this book. The character of Heather is not likable really in this one for me. We find out that the main reason she decides to take the job she does is to go to school (for free) to get a degree to make her more appealing to a man. And she's trying to prove how smart and capable she is to get this same man to fall in love with her like she is with him (this is her ex's brother). We also don't find out much about her backstory and instead choose to focus on her crush on her ex's brother and her justifying everything that she eats by saying size 12 is not fat. I mean that line must have been said almost 100 times during the course of this book.
I now recall why I could not get through this book the first time my friend gave this to me as a gift. The book does not do a good job of developing secondary characters besides Cooper (her ex's brother and P.I.) and the why behind the murders was pretty awful. And I have to say that Heather drove me nuts because her investigation skills were hilariously bad.
Heather is an ex-teen singing sensation who is now broke living with Cooper (her ex's brother) and working as an assistant dorm director at a college in New York. We find out slowly (seriously) that Heather is broke because her mom ran off with her money, that her label dropped her when she insisted on singing her own songs, and that her ex fiancee who is currently part of a boy band or former boy band (I could not keep that one straight) is still trying to force a continuation of their relationship. Between this and the murder mystery aspect it was just too much for the first book in the series.
The writing got old quick. Heather's constant comments about being a size 12 is not fat was headache inducing after a while. That and her describing Cooper, his leather jacket, what someone else looked like and her thinking if they were either too thin or her size. Apparently size 10s don't exist in this world or size 8s either. You are either a size 0, too skinny, or 12.
The flow of the book was terrible. We either have Heather investigating (quotes) obsessing about Cooper, obsessing about her ex, obsessing about her size, or trying to hide from her past in this one.
The setting of New York actually worked in this one very well. I got a good sense of where Heather lived and the dorm.
The ending was a bit of a mess actually. The reveal behind who dun it was all kinds of gross, and honestly I was thinking it may be this person due to process of elimination anyway.
I read this for the Twelve Tasks of the Festive Season: Task the Fourth: The Gift Card.
I now recall why I could not get through this book the first time my friend gave this to me as a gift. The book does not do a good job of developing secondary characters besides Cooper (her ex's brother and P.I.) and the why behind the murders was pretty awful. And I have to say that Heather drove me nuts because her investigation skills were hilariously bad.
Heather is an ex-teen singing sensation who is now broke living with Cooper (her ex's brother) and working as an assistant dorm director at a college in New York. We find out slowly (seriously) that Heather is broke because her mom ran off with her money, that her label dropped her when she insisted on singing her own songs, and that her ex fiancee who is currently part of a boy band or former boy band (I could not keep that one straight) is still trying to force a continuation of their relationship. Between this and the murder mystery aspect it was just too much for the first book in the series.
The writing got old quick. Heather's constant comments about being a size 12 is not fat was headache inducing after a while. That and her describing Cooper, his leather jacket, what someone else looked like and her thinking if they were either too thin or her size. Apparently size 10s don't exist in this world or size 8s either. You are either a size 0, too skinny, or 12.
The flow of the book was terrible. We either have Heather investigating (quotes) obsessing about Cooper, obsessing about her ex, obsessing about her size, or trying to hide from her past in this one.
The setting of New York actually worked in this one very well. I got a good sense of where Heather lived and the dorm.
The ending was a bit of a mess actually. The reveal behind who dun it was all kinds of gross, and honestly I was thinking it may be this person due to process of elimination anyway.
I read this for the Twelve Tasks of the Festive Season: Task the Fourth: The Gift Card.
Let me start off by saying that I'm so glad that I'm done with this book. I had to force myself to read it because I couldn't stand the main character but I wanted to see who the killer was. Heather acted like a teenager a majority of the time instead of the 28 year that she was, she jumped to conclusions so quickly that sometimes they didn't even make sense. Not to mention she was so boycrazy that she reminded me of a high schooler who was jealous of the people her crush was talking to. With that being said, the plot was really good and I liked the little twist ending. But, it wasn't good enough for me to read the rest of the seires. I gave this book a 2.5/5.