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Title: Overpromises and underdelivers
Review: This should have been called Living Thin if You've Got Good Eyes. The book is half about her story and philosophy and only half recipes. Reading the white-on-orange text of the various hints and comments is extremely difficult. MANY of the recipes have comments like "Not something you'd want to eat much of" or "You can take just a sliver." Why put in recipes that are fattening when this is a weight loss book? The numerous tips on how to make something a bit fancier ("if the Queen is coming to visit" is cute, but quickly gets tiresome) are useful but printed in a way that makes them difficult to read. The design sucks; the recipes aren't particularly great and the ratio of recipes to lifestory is very low. I applaud her success, but next time she should sell her story as a story, not as a recipe book. You might want to buy this book, just don't expect much.
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