Which is why my dislike for her 4th book, Pretty in Plaid, is very disappointing.
As a side note: this was the first book I ever read on my Kindle. Don't read Jen Lancaster on a Kindle. She is famously known for her awesome sub-scripts. On a Kindle, you have to scroll to and select each number. Once there, you select, each number, go the page it's on, then hit back to go back to the page you were reading. 213 notes later, I probably only read half. If I wanted to be that annoyed, I would have read this in hardback (don't even get me started).
This book is the prequel to Bitter is the New Black. It actually starts with a young Jen and works forward. It's really classic Jen writing, but I felt like it didn't work.
For starters, (and this may not make sense) I felt like Jen wrote what her 8 year old self was thinking-but really what her 40 year old self thought her 8 year old self might be thinking. She just seemed to be trying way too hard.
The epilogue was the worst part of this book because it made NO sense. I have no idea why she included these little stories here; a couple of anecdotes from her Such a Pretty Fat book tour. It just has no context. If there was a point, I don't think she made it.
Does it make me love Jen less? No. Not every book is a winner. She is still an amazing writer and I can't wait for her next book.
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