Size 12 Is Not Fat (Heather Wells #1)

Reader reviewed by mona

Following the theme of any Meg Cabot book, this book is hilarious and charming, if for slightly older readers than those of The Princess Diaries. Thsi novel is centred around a former teenage singing sensation, Heather Wells, a woman now working in a college dormitory. But the relationships and happenings of her famous ex boyfriend and the slight problem of the dead body found at the bottom of the dorm's escalator, keep even this singing sensation on her toes!

Reader reviewed by Alanna

Heather Wells used to be a teen pop star. Now she's 28, and she works at a dorm... erm... residence hall. Life is going well enough until two bodies are discovered at the bottom of elevator shafts. The deaths are dismissed by the pros as pleasure cruisers; people who ride on top of the elevators for fun. Heather thinks differently. It's up to her and her sexy roommate/landlord/secret love to see if the deaths were accidental... and if not, who did it?

It's a hilarious book, and yet I can really identify with the main character (as much as it's possible, since she's quite a bit older than me!)

Reader reviewed by Alexandra

Heather Wells life has definitely taken a turn for the worse. Ten years ago, she was a huge teen pop sensation dating another huge teen pop sensation. Now that her label dropped her for wanting to sing her own songs, her boyfriend dropped her for the new teen pop sensation, her mother took her life savings to Argentina, and she's working as an assistant directo in a New York College residence hall (NOT dorm), you could say life has done a complete 180 on her. Now she's living in her ex-boyfriend's (hot) older brother, Cooper's, brownstone, while she tries to make a yearly living on what she used to earn in a week. But when two girls in Heather's residence hall die, Heather realizes exactly how different her life is. Even though the NYPD is disinclined to believe her, Heather knows that those girls' deaths weren't accidents. With some help from Cooper, Heather has to catch the murderer before more lives are lost. This chick-lit-slash-murder-mystery is one of Meg's best books yet. It employs all her usual humor, romance, and character development, with an added bonus of a murder mystery. This is a must-read for all chick-lit, mystery, and Meg Cabot fans.

Reader reviewed by Dylana

Meg Cabot has done it again with her brand new novel about an ex-pop star who finds her self in the middle of a school mystery and the victim of someone who wants her dead! This is Heather Wells, former pop singer of Sugar Rush. Too bad she gained that weight and didn't want to sing her label's poppy songs anymore. So she lost her job and is living as a house-mate with her ex-boyfriend's (popstar) brother's house in New York City. She works as a residence hall assistant at NY College. Suddenly two girls are both found dead lying at the bottom of the elevator shaft. Heather knows that these girls don't elevator surf! (Only boys do that!) She's determined to find out these girls' murderer. And it's this person that seems to want Heather dead, as well. What is an ex-popstar, size 12, residence hall assistant to do? Especially when your in love with your investigator house-mate, named Cooper? Find out in this book. It really keeps you reading. It's fun, exciting, full of drama, and the end is actual-filled. You'll love quirky Heather Wells and how she just has to get to the bottom of everything!