Kristen reviewed on
Helpful Score: 5
This was my third Jen Lancaster book and definitely my last. They've shot downhill at a very rapid pace since Bitter is the New Black.1 I had to force myself to finish the book because if I'm going to spend $2.77 to media mail it to the next person, I at least want to have read the whole book first!
Every chapter is basically about a conversation she has had with someone on a specific topic.2 Not terribly interesting conversations either. She touches on the weight loss more toward the end and it's not very motivating. Twice she wrote a sentence that could make one think, "yes, I want to do that, too!" Other than that, if I were looking to lose 40 pounds and wanted to read a book about someone who's been there, too, it wouldn't be this book.
She does, however, really try to motivate you to buy one of her other books.3 All throughout this book, it feels more like a sales pitch for Jen Lancaster. If Such a Pretty Fat had been her first book pitch it never would have been picked up and if it was, it would have been rejected when the editor saw the final cut because no one would read this unless they had a following. Save your credits and borrow this one from the library.
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1. Her first book. Be sure and buy it or she'll bash you over the head with Such a Pretty Fat!
2. She thinks she's really pretty. I mean, she seriously talks about how super-pretty she is. Paragraphs worth of how pretty she is. I've googled her. She's not super-pretty. She's in denial.
3. Buy her first book! Buy her second book! Buy all her books or else she'll write a book about why you should buy her books!
Every chapter is basically about a conversation she has had with someone on a specific topic.2 Not terribly interesting conversations either. She touches on the weight loss more toward the end and it's not very motivating. Twice she wrote a sentence that could make one think, "yes, I want to do that, too!" Other than that, if I were looking to lose 40 pounds and wanted to read a book about someone who's been there, too, it wouldn't be this book.
She does, however, really try to motivate you to buy one of her other books.3 All throughout this book, it feels more like a sales pitch for Jen Lancaster. If Such a Pretty Fat had been her first book pitch it never would have been picked up and if it was, it would have been rejected when the editor saw the final cut because no one would read this unless they had a following. Save your credits and borrow this one from the library.
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1. Her first book. Be sure and buy it or she'll bash you over the head with Such a Pretty Fat!
2. She thinks she's really pretty. I mean, she seriously talks about how super-pretty she is. Paragraphs worth of how pretty she is. I've googled her. She's not super-pretty. She's in denial.
3. Buy her first book! Buy her second book! Buy all her books or else she'll write a book about why you should buy her books!
