This was another random pick up at the library . . . the premise was just too good to pass up. Heather Wells is a former teen pop star (think Tiffany mixed with Britney with a dash of J. Simpson) who just recently caught her boy band fiancee Jordan Cartwright in an uncompromising position with another pop star, Tania Trace. Her mother has also taken off to Argentina with Heather's life savings, leaving her with nada. She's also gone from a size 8 to a size 12, but doesn't seem to mind that much since it's the "average size of the American woman." Instead of wallowing in her messy life, she's moved in with her fiancee's brother Cooper and taken a job as an assistant director at a dorm for New York College. After six months of employment there, Heather can start taking college classes for free. Sounds like she's got a plan, right?When two freshman girls end up dead at the bottom of the dorm's elevator, Heather gets suspicious. Both ruled as accidental from elevator surfing, Heather is convinced a murderer lives in the building. While she tries to get to the bottom of this mystery, she's also dealing with her laughable ex Jordan constantly popping up with his "gold highlights in his blond hair, and I can't help noticing that in spite of the Indian summer heat, the lines pressed into his white shirt and--yes, I'm sorry to have to say it--matching white pants look perfectly crisp. With the white outfit, and the gold chain around his neck, he looks like he's AWOL from a really bad boy band. Which, sadly, is exactly what he is."
You'll laugh out loud as Heather tries to sleuth around and avoid Jordan, but Cabot also does a great job keeping the reader on their toes all throughout Size 12 is Not Fat. If you like it, there are two more books in the series: Size 14 is Not Fat Either and Big-Boned.
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