“Everyone thinks Diana Christopher is losing it. Considering she’s just driven her car into the front window of Davey’s Café, they might be on to something. All Diana wants is to be normal—but life for this 32-year-old waitress is anything but. Since the death of her father two decades before, Diana has looked for consolation in donuts, strawberry shortcake and cheese curls–anything to avoid looking at her past. With 50 pounds to lose, she knows she’s become a huge disappointment to her mother, and herself. An unlikely friendship with her 93-year-old neighbor gives Diana the courage to shed the bulky barrier she has put between herself and the world, and soon, she’s getting attention from a certain pool-playing god at a local singles bar. But after the unspeakable happens, Diana begins to examine her past and finds that losing it is the only way she can truly be free.”
I have mixed feelings about this book. Although I did read the entire novel, I pretty much forced myself to do so. The main character drove me crazy at times. The situations she got herself into were just plain silly and you could see the outcome a mile away. I just didn’t find this story to be believable. I do applaud the author for creating a less than perfect character, though. It was definitely not a funny, lighthearted book. It was a bit dark and depressing to be honest. Not what I am used to with RDI. I feel I need to read something uplifting now to raise my spirits!!
–Jennifer
