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The Perfect Fit: Fat-Free Dreams Just Don't Taste the Same

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I feel like this author resorted to heavy handed stereotyping throughout this book. The gay "new best friend" character was a flaming, Whitney Houston loving, hand-flailing mockery of homosexuality. The super-macho male character was an over the top misogynist with a drinking problem, a typically tragic past involving multiple wives, and a framed quote on his desk reading "love is just the illusion that one woman differs from another." Our female protagonist supposedly learns that being thin isn't the answer, and yet spends the entire book judging other women's bodies, and only finds happiness once she's thin, cute, and able to wander around in short dresses and slouchy boots. I wasn't a fan.

I found this book to be a fun and interesting read. I can relate to how Sunny feels after losing a large amount of weight and not being sure of who she is anymore. A good book for someone who has weight issues.

Sunny Weston has believed forever that her weight correlates to her happiness. Now that she has lost ninety-eight pounds, she wonders why she remains unhappy. She ponders if it is the skin now hanging loose, that she transformed her addiction to food into an addiction to lose weight, or that she finally has the attention of her long time unrequited love Adrian though he is engaged to someone else. Her friends suddenly detest her leading Sunny to think they are jealous, but also feeling alone.

Sipping coffee, Sunny hears a woman screaming hysterically. A man has abducted six years old Dougal. Sunny has finally found some good with the weight gone as she runs down the culprit and the rescues the child. Cagney helps her contain the snatcher. They meet at the police station and are attracted to one another. However, she assumes a hunk like Cagney would never have given her a first look a century of weight ago. Still she feels she should still love Adrian while Cagney makes her feel like a strong woman to admire.

This is an interesting inspirational tale that stars a woman who has always believed her weight equates to happiness until she begins to realize there is more to a person that what a scale says. Sunny begins to truly change when she realizes losing the weight helped her run down the pedophile but that it is she mentally needing to change if she is to prevent her "psychological weight" from returning all she lost. Though the romantic subplot is too easy fixed, the key to this fine character study is that the heroine learns that to find inner contentment beyond the personal appearance of THE PERFECT FIT jeans is a bodacious lofty goal worth pursuing.

Harriet Klausner

I've wanted to read this book for a while and after i received a Kindle as a gift, i splurged. I still don't quite understand why Kindle books are so expensive (not reflective of my review).

About the book - it was good but slow to get started. I had a hard time motivating myself to finish reading it but overall the story was interesting, not terribly predictable (although somewhat). I would have liked to see more character development and a little less shallowness in all of the characters. I won't give away the plot but it was not at all what I expected.

It was okay one time read only. I like a book that you can pick up and read and once your done with it pick up again because it was just that good. I'll say she looked down upon slimer women and she really didn't care for them but when she became skinny she was just like that being someone she's not. It was just okay.

This is a great book for a fun, fast read.
Please note: this is the same book as Perfect Ten. For some reason it was released under both names. Don't make the same mistake I did and buy the same book twice!

I liked the premise, but the story just didn't hold my interest. I couldn't get myself to care about any of the characters. Towards the end, it just got really, really boring. I hurried up and finished it because I had invested too much time in it already. Not recommended.

I read the info for the book and thought "Hmm. Interesting." And the first few pages were quite interesting dealing with what no one tells you about weight loss - and the next thing you know - Sunny, the herioine, is rescuing an abducted child.

I like chick lit to read just before going to bed after a long day. This was no easy read. Other than empathy for the weight loss - I didn't find anything to like about Sunny, her friends, her choice of dates or that strange character Cagney. I couldn't stand the bickering banter between Sunny and Cagney.

My biggest gripe with the book - the chapters are too long and combine too many subjects. I'm sure they somehow all correlate to each other - but I think it would have been a far easier read if the sub chapters had been their own chapters. Each time I read the book - I had to refresh myself on what happened in the previous chapter. I felt like I was studying for a test.

I may have missed a fabulous new author for our generation - it was too hard to follow.

I think every woman who has lost, is in the process of, or wants to lose weight should read this book. While a fun summer read, it is humourously insightful into the obsessive female mind when it comes to being skinny and beautiful. Sunny Weston is both an imaginative and relatable character who is flawed yet continues to search for something better. She perfectly expresses the peril of replacing one obsession with food with an obsession of "beauty", showing how easily self-improvement can morph into vanity. It is a challenging book, with a message of trying to find out who you are for yourself in spite of the surrounding pressures of imaginary standards set by society and friends. If you want a great read with original characters, and a fresh twist to the ugly duckling story, I highly recommend this book!

Losing enough weight to make a whole person should have changed her life dramatically for the better and solved all her problems, or so Sunny Weston believed. It didn't. To be sure, there was advantages, but there were also new problems. The man she loves is interested in sleeping with her, but wants someone "better" to marry. Her best friends' issues are separating an inseparable trio, and now her life has become inordinately complicated by Cagney James, a misongynistic investigator she runs into while saving a child's life. Despite all the irritating qualties he has and how much he seems to dislike Sunny, neither can get the other off their mind. He might be a missing piece in the puzzle of her life, though.

*** American readers may find the British-isms a bit of a challenge. Despite this, Sunny's message is one that is important. As anyone who can claim the title former fatty can attest, she's right. Losing the weight doesn't solve all your problems. Inside this often flip story, there's truth. ***