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Beware the Dwarfs
256 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1999
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Terri Paddock
5 books1 followerTerri Paddock is an American author living in London. As well as writing, she runs the website WHAT'S ON STAGE. Paddock has been editing Whatsonstage.com for all of its ten years and has been a writer and journalist for most of her professional career,
Although she has written one book for adults - "Beware the Dwarfs" -, "Come Clean" is her first book for children.
Although she has written one book for adults - "Beware the Dwarfs" -, "Come Clean" is her first book for children.
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January 12, 2012
This was a book I picked up in a shop in Scotland in 2004. I think I stopped and bought a book at every bookstore I passed while I was there. I was in a major "chick-lit" phase, but I was only 18 and was wanting to read more "grown-up" chick-lit versus some of the teen stuff I had brought on the plane with me. The description seamed like it would be a fun read about cool 20 something friends who are flatmates in London. How could I resist? Well, I wish I did.
SPOILER ALERT
Each chapter was told from the viewpoint of a different character, which is actually a format I like when I like the characters. But these characters were all awful people. Stealing boyfriends from their roommates, making up rape charges to get attention. And it was that last offense that I could never get over. The fact that one of the main characters was so insecure that she had to make up a story that she was raped in a park as she walked home at night was bad enough, but the reason that she was so insecure was because she was chubby and didn't have a boyfriend, but her skinny friends and flatmates did. Are you kidding me? Having been a fat girl my whole life that is such bullshit. My best friends growing up were size 0s to my size 16 and never once did I make up some story to get attention let alone a story so heinous. I am so tired of the "fat girl" stereotype of being some sad sack desperate for attention and completely void of self respect. This was definitely not the light romance-y fun read I was wanting right before I started college and it's not anything I want 8 years later either.
SPOILER ALERT
Each chapter was told from the viewpoint of a different character, which is actually a format I like when I like the characters. But these characters were all awful people. Stealing boyfriends from their roommates, making up rape charges to get attention. And it was that last offense that I could never get over. The fact that one of the main characters was so insecure that she had to make up a story that she was raped in a park as she walked home at night was bad enough, but the reason that she was so insecure was because she was chubby and didn't have a boyfriend, but her skinny friends and flatmates did. Are you kidding me? Having been a fat girl my whole life that is such bullshit. My best friends growing up were size 0s to my size 16 and never once did I make up some story to get attention let alone a story so heinous. I am so tired of the "fat girl" stereotype of being some sad sack desperate for attention and completely void of self respect. This was definitely not the light romance-y fun read I was wanting right before I started college and it's not anything I want 8 years later either.
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