Size 14 Is Not Fat, Either, by Meg Cabot

Summary: When a girl is found dead in the dorm where Heather Wells works, she can't help wondering why. And trying to find out more. And putting herself in dangerous situations. While trying to deal with various other facets of her life.

Reaction: Yes, this sounds like a fluffy book. And it kinda is, but there's way more to it than self-pity over weight gain and going "omg I'm fat. I think I'll eat an entire cheescake now even tho I'm so bloody fat" (I'm not cynical, really) (not that there isn't some of that; not that that isn't annoying. Why are some people so obsessed with their weight? I could understand it for someone who's actually fat, but most of the people who come to mind aren't. Anyway, that has nothing to do with the topic at hand, and little to do with the book...)

Mystery! Yay! This is the second in the series, and based on the few vague references to the first book, I think I know who the murderer in that one was. I suppose now I have to read it and see if I'm right. Although there's a reasonable chance I would've read it anyway. Or at least added Cabot's adult books to my list of books to look for when I'm at the library *refrains from long rant about her book reading habits, which are pretty much that she collects so many impulse books at the library that she has little time for reading books she owns and doesn't feel like she can put books on hold without really stressing herself out over how bloody many books she has to read* *remembers perhaps a little guiltily several recent instances of having one or more books that she was desparately trying to finish because she couldn't renew them any more times* *realizes that she's gotten horribly off-topic again* *is happy that she's capable of writing a long post* *decides that this isn't the best place for it and returns to trying to write a review of sorts*

Midway thru, I suddenly noticed that the book was written in present tense and it was mildly annoying for about a minute and a half until I quit noticing it. And there was one sentence that jumped out at me as ackward because it was using the word "can" in conjunction with stuff it implied happened. And a couple sentences that I thought might be candidates for the Dark And Stormy Night Contest (or whatever it was. The contest for most random f-ed up sentences to start a book.), although the sentences weren't actually at the beginning of the book, but whatever.