NEW RELEASE
The Bride Wore Size 12 - Meg Cabot (2013)
Heather Wells is still working as an accommodation manager at a university and is stressing out about the new students moving in. There are still resident advisors to train, rooms to set up and not to mention a member of royalty is joining the university too. With so many things going on, it isn't long before something goes wrong. Something terribly wrong. A new student is found dead in the dorm room and now every single resident in the building is a suspect. And all at a time when Heather has her wedding coming up! Can Heather juggle her work and home life while trying to solve a murder? The only experience I've had with Meg Cabot is The Princess Diaries, which I read a long time ago, so I was interested to see how she wrote for adults. I have to say I enjoyed this book a lot but there were a couple of points where I thought things could have been a little better. Firstly, the build up to the solving of the murder was a little bit anti-climactic. There wasn't much of an explanation as to why what happened. Also, I found another resolution in the book to be a little confusing (that of the Prince) because it struck me as completely random and not explained enough. However, this could be, like always, down to reader interpretation. I enjoyed the writing style, it was easy to follow and nicely paced. Heather, as a character, was certainly strong and was more than happy to stand on her own two feet. My kinda girl! I often feel annoyed when authors portray women as weak and in need of a man to help them out but there was no danger of that happening in this book! But her fiance, Cooper, wasn't overly active in this book; the only times we met him were in the beginning and towards the end. The ending to this novel was sickly sweet (I loved it) and I'm sure that for fans of Heather they will be ecstatic by what happens in what is presumedly the last book in the series. (LL)
Meg Cabot is bringing back Heather Wells for another instalment and this time she's getting married. The summary of The Bride Wore Size 12 says: "Heather Wells is used to having her cake and eating it, too, but this time she may be out of luck. Her cake's gone missing along with the wedding planner she's hired for her upcoming nuptials to hunky P.I. Cooper Cartwright. But Heather's got even bigger problems: A pretty fresher has turned up dead after a back-to-university all-nighter and every student in the dorm where Heather works is a possible suspect. With a murder to solve and a runaway wedding planner to track down, Heather's pretty sure things can't get worse." The Bride Wore Size 12 is out in October 2013.