It feels cinematic as you read, but also so vivid and real. The combination of themes, characters, and plot make this book simply explode off the page. So many pieces of this book give us a glimpse into just how awful these mindsets and beliefs truly are. They’re insidious, creeping into our daily lives in terrible ways. It takes our diet culture and fatphobia to an extreme to highlight how damaging these things truly are. The author has a note at the beginning reminding us of that. It’s important that readers are aware this book is satire. But it’s fine, his plan to go home should work just fine. The only thing Sheldon didn’t count on was having his electronics taken away from him. But maybe something else is going to make those decisions for her instead.Īnd finally, there’s Sheldon Smentkowski. She needs to make some decisions, and fast. A pastor’s daughter, she’s always done the right thing. Well, unless something eats his mind first. Their new investors need to know how their program is going and Paul is going to give them a piece of his mind. He isn’t really a camper, he’s just there for his dad. Paul Fannon, er, Lewis, needs to do a good job. So paycheck first, weird feelings and clarifying questions second. Maybe he can get that baseball scholarship after the semester starts, but he has to get there first. And she can’t let Vee know about any of them. She has a plan, or well, several plans while she’s at Featherlite. It’s a skill we should all have.Īllison DuMonde is Vee’s ex-best friend.

I also especially adore her ability to turn almost anything into a weapon.

That’s not to say she doesn’t have her own demons to wrestle with, because she does. I wish I had a fraction of her confidence, both as a teen and now, frankly. She’s tough, badass, and definitely knows who she is. Even though there’s six POV’s, Vee is the main character. What could make a zombie apocalypse in a once-in-a-lifetime blizzard at a shady pharma-run fat camp even more terrifying? The fact that almost every single person in Vee’s pod has a secret that threatens their survival. This broad character perspective was also perfect to build the tension inside of an already tense story. With six character POV’s, you bounce around a lot from chapter to chapter, but each character is so vividly rendered, I never got confused when switching. And such a fun way to bring those tropes to life in a non-cheesy way. I loved this so much! Trying to figure out who is who, while the characters are trying to figure that out at the same time is sheer brilliance. She gives us seven character tropes from horror movies with a brief explanation for each, and then weaves these tropes into the awareness of her characters. I mean, A LOT! First, one of my favorite things is how deVos opens the book.

Kelly devos eat your heart out