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This read could have been a favorite: the writing is good, with an easy flow, the characters are mostly clever and nice (well, except Amanda who'is boringly perfect and Matt who doesn't have a chance to have a personality), the main theme is brilliant and fun. But I couldn't help having a permanent sense of botched writing during my reading.

This book has such bright qualities that its flaws are sadly emphasised. Nothing catastrophic, this read was quite enjoyable, but I didn't appreciate the basic manipulations: the terse endings of each chapter, the mysterious dramatic episode who ended Matt and Cat friendship three years ago, which is waved in front of our nose nearly all book long, as a carrot would be to keep moving the donkey - reading the reader.
There is also a sorry tendency to mix some really good, strong and clever ideas with some cheesy chicklitties. On the other hand the author acts as a know-it-all about what is "good eating"; her arguments are too numerous and too insistant (even for me, who actually eat the king of food she advocates!). The message is clearly that everybody should give up junk food for healthy food - as it was so easy to change lifetime habits and tastes!
And also, to be finish with the bad, some inconsistencies / oversight: Cat is supposed to eat non-processed food, natural, healthy, but organic food is never brought up. Cat lose a lot of weight, but seems to easily forget that she used to be very fat; I don't believe it. I'm sure that a real girl would think of it all the time, spending long minutes inspecting her body and face, tightening her belt, feeling her clothes around her new body. She's very busy, and worried, I understand that, but nevertheless I'm sure that she should have be obsessed with the wonderful changes of her body. It's a shame because her condition of a very fat girl, addicted to bad food, is very clearly stated in the beginning of the book. Cat accepts much to easily the volcanic transformation of what she becomes.

In the end a talented author who took the easy way out with some aspects of the book, leaving me me a lasted impression of uncompletedness. The last part in particular, when Cat discovers clothes and seduction is painfully cliché.

To conclude a rather good book which could have been a very good one. A shame...