It took me a couple of starts to get into Diary of a Mad Fat Girl simply because the protagonist, "Ace" Graciela Jones was truly that - a mad, mad girl. The fat description was more of a pleasantly plump with a gorgeous face and to-die-for hair. Ace has a few bees in her bonnet and is so not afraid to tell the world what she thinks or believes.
The true shine to this story is the friendship of the three women, Ace, Lilly and Chloe, best friends since high school. When Chloe ends up in the hospital thanks to her no good, nefarious husband, Lilly and Ace put aside their recent differences to rescue their best friend. The antics these women pull by stalking Chloe's husband in order to catch him in his cheating ways and how the matriarch of the town comes to the women's rescue and wraps up many of the town scandals with a few clicks of her buttons from her media room lends for a comedy of immense proportions!
A fun, funny book - but one that should be read by those who are not easily offended. Ace was abrasive and at times her personality showed that she was fearless while other times Ace was a big scaredy cat and wouldn't move - the following scene is from Ace and Lilly's adventure stalking Chloe's husband:
Something moves in the darkness ahead of us and I don't know if it's a possum or the devil coming to get us. I yelp like a dog and scan the area for varmint or a pitchfork. Lilly laughs so hard I'm afraid she's going to piss her pants. Then a bat swoops down, she screams like a banshee, and we both hit the grass and let the chiggers have their way with us for a few minutes.Many of Ace's adventures in Diary of a Mad Fat Girl were outrageously funny - laugh-out-loud hilarious. This book is a light gem of true hilarity - go out and get it if you need laughter therapy - I guarantee you will not be able to keep from laughing!
"We are going to jail," Lily whispers.
"It's not illegal to lay in the grass!" I whisper back. "What would we be charged with, Failure to Yield to Common Sense?"
"If that was a crime, you would've been sent to prison years ago!" Lilly giggles.
Publisher: New American Library/imprint of Penguin | Published: 2/7/2012
Genre: Fiction | 368 pages | ISBN: 978-0451236494
Many thanks to the publisher for the complimentary review copy!
I met Stephanie at SIBA last year and she was very sweet. I can't wait to read her book!
ReplyDeleteThis does sound like a fun book, and since I am not easily offended, I think it might be just the thing I am looking for. Thanks for the excellent and thorough review today. I loved it!
ReplyDeleteHa! Sounds good! :) Love the cover. But those legs don't look fat to me ;)
ReplyDeleteSounds like a fun one!
ReplyDeleteThis sounds like a whole lot of fun!
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