Book Review: Size 12 Is Not Fat

Size 12 Is Not Fat by Meg Cabot
345 Pages
2005

Synopsis from Goodreads
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 . . .

Rating: 4 / 5

My Review from Goodreads
Meg Cabot's books are always a good light read. There's lots of realistic humour and dialogue that I can appreciate when reading her novels. The plot was pretty interesting, and at several moments I was second-guessing what might happen next. I liked the main character and thought she was pretty down-to-earth and dealing with truistic emotions. I also happened to become a fan of hers and Cooper's growing relationship! I definitely need to read the next book to find out what happens there!

It met my expectations for a Meg Cabot novel, and I enjoyed reading it after reading several heavy and deep books.