Size 12 Is Not Fat (Heather Wells #1)

Reader reviewed by Lea

Ex popstar Heather Wells is working in a dorm, when some crazy deaths start happening. Heather starts sleuthing, because she knows something is off about it all, and these deaths were no accidents. As she gets closer to the truth, she gets closer to the killer...and her death.

Heather is absolutely hilarious. I feel in love with her and her personalilty. Even when everyone else believes the deaths were accidents, she still sticks to what she thinks, and solves the shocking mystery.

Reader reviewed by lia

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 twoand 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 listennot the police, her colleagues, or the P.I. who owns the brownstone where she liveseven 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 . . .

Leaving her pop star life wasn't really bad less with her ex-boyfriends brother and new job. You will really enjoy her charisma.

Reader reviewed by Dede

This book has so much added together and is a light fun read. Heather Wells used to be a perfect teen singing sensation. Until she insisted on singing her own songs (thereby getting fired), caught her boyfriend cheating on her, and her mom ran off with her money and her agent to another country. Now she works at a college as an advisor to the students, she moved in with her ex-boyfriends brother - the black sheep of his family - and has developed a crush on him. To top that all off, girls in her part of the college start dying from elevator surfing and Heather is the only one that thinks it's suspicious. She starts to investigate on her own and gets herself is some pretty tight spots, and at times you wince at her actions, but there is such humor imbedded in this novel that you relate and could imagine it happening to you. She is a completely likeable character for older readers as well as new teens. I can't wait to read more of Cabot's "Heather Wells Mysteries."

Reader reviewed by imac

This book is so good if you like romance, mystery and a physco pathic killer than you'll love this book. no i'm just kidding this is a freat mystery book with a splurge of romance in between. i love meg cabots books and when i saw the heather wells series i thought what the hay lets read it. the book will hook you were you can't put it down. so if you like this read the sequal size 14 is not fat either. that book is as good or better than the first one. And if you like that the third and final book comes out november 2007 it is called big boned.

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!