Meredith Cagen

Size eight in a size zero world is an enteratining but shallow story of a woman seeking more excitement out of life. The main character Lindsey is a wife and mother who feels more like a slave than wife and finds a spark with a neighbor. This leads her to change her outine, her goals, and her entire personality/ Though the book attempts to poke fun at the shallow lifestyle of some women it in essence glorifies this lifestyle as Lindsey transforms throughout the book. The male lead is annoying at best. A good non thinking beach read and something I hope no one takes too seriously.… (meer)

It's hard for me to review Size Eight in a Size Zero world because I have two very strong, very different opinions about it. I absolutely loved everything going on in the background of this book. I also could not stand the main character.

Everything that goes on around Lindsay, the main character, was fantastic. The look at high society, her kids, the school, her friends, everything else was truly fascinating. Then Lindsay would ruin it by speaking or thinking. Every single thing she did made me want to punch her in the neck. This isn't disagreeing with a character that makes the book phenomenal type of stuff. This was more along the lines of my thinking, are there women really like this? Women who love their verbally abusive husbands, yet cheat on them with emotionally vicious men? Women who completely change the way they live their lives so a man who they want to be friends with will like them? Women who are so pathetic that they'll take any kind of attention from a man and believe it gives their lives purpose? When Lindsay finally gets the guts to leave both of the men in her life, she chooses the dumbest reasons to do so. Lindsay is so grating in her supposed "love" that you want her to fail horribly at everything she does.

Reading about Lindsay was like spending untold hours with a weak, desperate, whiny friend that you wish would get her crap together or just shut the hell up about it. It was a shame, because the tiny glimpses beyond Lindsay's love life were the only thing keeping this book going. If the cliquey mothers and the charity events were the main focus of the book, it would have been extraordinary.… (meer)