Alison Sherlock, The Desperate Bride's Diet Club.
I did my usual with this book. Picked it up because of the cover illustration, rolled my eyes at the title and skimmed a couple of random pages and put it down. It stayed with me so I went back a couple of days later and reconsidered.
I did like it. The characters stayed with me and I thought they were nicely drawn out. The dieting guru was a real witch ( I need to practise writing out my own witchy characters, and she's a good model to start with!)
But I didn't think the bad guy's comeuppance was great. It was a very obvious climactic scene, but there wasn't enough seeing him hoisted with his own petard. We see all the excruciating moments that the heroine goes through kinda at the hands of the bad guy. And sometimes I just want payback (even though - I know, I know! - the heroine always has to rise above such pettiness. But still...)
Definitely has re-read value.
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