Diary of a Mad Fat Girl [Kindle Edition]

Stephanie McAfee (Author)

Book Description

Ace Jones needs a vacation, but she's not going to get it. What she gets instead is a good dose of scandalous small town politics that takes her on a wild quest for truth and redemption. Things get really complicated when the love of her life, who she hasn’t seen or heard from in over three years, shows up and vows not to leave town until she agrees to marry him. Diary of a Mad Fat Girl is adventurous and entertaining as Ace and her friends delve into illegal surveillance, stalking, and covert operations in a strip club.

DEBUT NOVEL by Stephanie McAfee

***SPECIAL NOTE: This version of DIARY OF A MAD FAT GIRL is going in for a make-over and will no longer be available after JULY 15, 2011. Thanks!! ***

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

I was a bit surprised at how much I liked this excerpt or how eager I was to read more. The author was able to make me care about his heroine more than I'd have imagined.

Amazon.com Review

Excellent. Witty, funny, descriptive, a page-turner - you name it. This is just a great narrator, and an intelligently written excerpt. This writer truly gets it, and has that gift. As I stated earlier, I would love to see this published because I would be the first in line to buy it. It was that good.

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Product Details

• File Size: 225 KB
• Print Length: 368 pages
• Language: English
• ASIN: B004H8GVHC
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• X-Ray: Not Enabled
• Lending: Not Enabled
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #61,631 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

158 of 173 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars You just have to know how to read this February 22, 2011

By Melinda W Melvin

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If you like to laugh, read this book.
If you like to save money and laugh, read this book.
If you like sassiness and silliness, read this book.
If you are from the South and you understand that "because they needed it" should be grounds for a trial acquittal, read this book.
If you read books for accuracy and proper grammatical usage, you might wanna just walk on by.
If you think that no one should gain satisfaction from another person's unfortunate consequences, you won't like this book.
If you don't understand the healing quality of frozen peas, well, just stick with books written by scholars.

71 of 80 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars A fun story January 31, 2011

By Aly-oops!

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This wasn't really a romance as much as a "girlfriends" tale. The story is about Graciela (Ace), Lilly, & Chloe and is told from Ace's POV.

POTENTIAL SPOILERS:

All work at the local school of a small town, & the book starts off with a bang when Lilly is accused of having an affair with an 18yo student. Chloe is married to a cheating, abusive, upstanding member of the community (Richard). And Ace is a size 16, cynical, & missing the man (Mason) she left 3 years ago. The story revolves mostly around Ace & Lilly as they stalk Chloe's husband in an effort to prove he's cheating, hopefully providing Chloe with enough motivation to divorce him. Unexpected assistance comes in the form of an elderly, wealthy woman, Mrs. Gloria Peacock.

Between pulling guns on abusive, cheating husbands, dressing like drag queens to infiltrate titty bars, being arrested a couple times, & obtaining photo evidence of her evil boss' "extra-curricular" activities, Ace is in for a pretty raucous good time. This books is fun & fast-paced. Definitely worth reading!

I opted to rate this only 4 stars mainly because of how the relationship between Ace & her man is left. They never actually resolve the issues surrounding their initial break-up of three years prior, yet they're all happy & peachy-keen by the end. Even though the story doesn't revolve around the romance, it still left a bad taste in my mouth, especially since the book ended on a romantic note. Mason should've answered Ace's concerns, & Ace shouldn't have been so easily placated. Simple enough.

All-in-all, this book is great & totally worth 99 cents. Enjoy!

168 of 207 people found the following review helpful

1.0 out of 5 stars Were We Reading the Same Book? February 12, 2011

By S. Vogt

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I have to wonder what those who gave this book 5 stars were thinking. It was a marginal effort at best. I downloaded it because it was 99 cents and the reviews promised that it was a well written and witty book. While the part about it being 99 cents held true, it certainly wasn't well written or witty. The domestic violence (and subsequent revenge violence) plot line was anything but funny. It also wasn't a dramatic tale that had me begging for more. The book as a whole was just...there. Meh. The constant use of profanities certainly didn't make me want to keep reading, nor did the poorly developed characters and the barely there plot. Not worth the few hours it took to read, even if it was 99 cents.

And please, for the love of grammar, someone teach this author the difference between "your" and "you're!"

More About the Author

Stephanie McAfee was born and raised in Mississippi, but currently resides in Florida. She loves reading, writing, being outdoors, and traveling.

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