Thursday, May 16, 2013

Book Review: "Fat Cat"

As one is able to easily surmise both by the title and by the cover of this book, this is a story about weight loss. Drastic weight loss. Almost prehistoric weight loss--

Our main character, Cat, has been overweight for years. As part of a year-long science project, she decides to try living as close to cavemen as possible in the modern world to see what effects it would have on the body, and to hypothesize just how negatively modern lifestyles impact our health. Her friends try to tell her she's nuts for taking on such an endeavor... until it works. This more or less triggers a domino effect type reaction on all those aroun her, and the results are far more reaching than she could have imagined.

While some of the typical high school drama is a bit too *real* for me (honestly, if I wanted to relive my high school years, I'd take a trip down to the local high school for a day and re-acquant myself with why I hated those years so much...) and I had to keep putting it down from time to time because of this because it just frustrated me too much, it's otherwise a pretty interesting story that kept me coming back to find out what would happen. I'm ranking this book a 3 1/2 out of 5 stars.

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