The Perfect Fit by Louise KeanI tried to like this book, but I just couldn't.
The story centers around Sunny Weston, a girl who has lost 98 pounds and can't adjust to being thin. The book had a promising start: Sunny sees a man kidnap a toddler from a Starbucks and because she is in much better shape than she ever has been, is able to chase him down and retrieve the little boy. At the same time, a man named Cagney James also sees the attempted kidnap and saves Sunny from being attacked by the kidnapper. Cagney and Sunny seem to hate each other at first, but then (you guessed it) they fall in love.
My biggest problem with this story is that I just didn't like Sunny or Cagney. Sunny is whiney and so insecure that you get tired of her easily. Cagney stays in a foul mood the entire book, up until the very last chapter. We're suddenly supposed to believe that oh, wait - he is a great guy after all, even after he's made fun of Sunny's former weight and admitted that he really only likes blondes.
Not my kind of book.
1 comments:
You know, as a reader and someone who likes to dabble in writing (both fiction and non) it is really irritating to me when authors create characters intending for you to feel one way about them when...you just can't. It is one thing to create an annoying character with the purpose of that character being annoying. It is quite another to create a main character that makes you want to throw the book across the room.
Thanks for the warning. :)
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