Finished this in just one sitting—not that I couldn’t put it down, but the pace was very fast and the prose was light and easy to read. It was a pleasant way to pass a lazy Sunday evening. It was just very easy to read until it was done. Though the constructions of the omniscient narrative are sometimes very bizarre, using “we” as in “I wish we could tell you that Ben Williams is standing but ten feet away” and in addition to slipping between first person and 3rd omniscient (with the reader included as the mysterious “we”) it also slips between present and past tenses which was the most jarring for me—the present was used for setting the scene which just seemed lazy more than anything. The back of the book said that it has a ”...surprise ending no reader will see coming.” But unless the only readers that are supposed to read this book have never ever seen a romance movie… or better yet have no frontal lobe, you pretty much get the first conclusion that springs to mind.

As with most chick lit I’ve read I have a problem with the moralization that the ending gives us—what lesson did the protagonist really learn anyway? As in most of the books I’ve read she didn’t really learn her lesson (she learned A lesson maybe, one the author clearly thinks is the right one, but as a reader I’m left thinking that the protagonist is still confused and just as flawed as at the beginning) but she received her happy ending anyway. Puts me greatly in mind of the Shopaholic book I read.

People with eating disorders lots of times may wrongly believe that their entire life will suddenly and miraculously be alright and perfect if they could only lose the right amount of weight and be the right size. The truly strange thing is that in this protagonist’s case, she was absolutely RIGHT!!!

Nothing more than mindless fluff… at least it was kinda fun to read though.