The Triangle

Issue date: 11/2/07 Section: Arts & Entertainment

Meg Cabot is responsible for books like ''Size 12 is Not Fat'' and "Queen of Babble".

Meg Cabot was not a name I knew until October when I was handed her book "Size 14 is Not Fat Either," book two of a series. I, being of a similar body build, was instantly intrigued by the title. I thought the book was going to be another one of those "everyone needs to feel sorry for the main character because she is fat" books, but I was very impressed to be wrong.

In Cabot's book "Size 14 is Not Fat Either,"Heather Wells, ex-pop star now assistant dorm director of New York university's Fisher Hall, finds herself once again in the middle of a murder investigation. A student of Fisher Hall, deemed "Death Dorm" in Cabot's previous book of the series "Size 12 is Not Fat," is found dead. Well, sort of. The student's head was found in Fisher Hall's cafeteria, the rest of the body is missing. The police are called and Heather is warned to stay out of the way, but she finds that she cannot stay away for long.

Meg Cabot makes her novel as believable as possible by telling the story as if you were reading Heather Wells' personal journal. Cabot uses the mind set of the self-conscious Heather in a way that makes the reader feel as if they can relate to Heather's personal problems and compare her problems with their own. Cabot truly is, As Publishers Weekly said, "the master of her genre."

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