Kaye's review
Miss Invisible (Women of Faith Fiction #17)
by Laura Jensen Walker
Kaye's review
Miss Invisible (Women of Faith Fiction #17) by Laura Jensen Walker
Kaye's review
rating:
bookshelves:
cba,
contemporary-romance
(This review was originally posted on my blog 3/30/2007)
“One size does not fit all…”
How many times have I thought that upon seeing a OSFA label in a garment?
I knew when I read this opening line of Laura Jensen Walker’s latest inspy chick lit, Miss Invisible, that I was in for a treat. As with the first LJW novel I read (Dreaming in Black & White), by the time I got to the bottom of the first page, I wanted to shout, “Get outta my head!”
Freddie (Frederika Heinz) is a large woman, but smaller than a 22/24 we learn when she first meets Deborah, a flamboyant, larger-than-life (and Freddie) African American woman. Freddie is a cake decorator at a bakery in the small Northern California town where she grew up.
This is a part of the book that struck me on a deep level. Freddie returned “home” to this town after several years (and a broken relationship) in Chicago. She grew up here, but...more
“One size does not fit all…”
How many times have I thought that upon seeing a OSFA label in a garment?
I knew when I read this opening line of Laura Jensen Walker’s latest inspy chick lit, Miss Invisible, that I was in for a treat. As with the first LJW novel I read (Dreaming in Black & White), by the time I got to the bottom of the first page, I wanted to shout, “Get outta my head!”
Freddie (Frederika Heinz) is a large woman, but smaller than a 22/24 we learn when she first meets Deborah, a flamboyant, larger-than-life (and Freddie) African American woman. Freddie is a cake decorator at a bakery in the small Northern California town where she grew up.
This is a part of the book that struck me on a deep level. Freddie returned “home” to this town after several years (and a broken relationship) in Chicago. She grew up here, but...more
