I don’t write reviews. Reason – I am very bad at it. I can only say “Very Good” or “Great”. This is my first review so read at your own risk. 
On my train journey for home, I finished this novel (although had started it some time back).
This was my first Danielle Steel novel. I found it engrossing in the beginning, lost interest somewhere in the middle and again got hooked towards the end.
The author has touched issues like obesity, sisterhood, family and self-image. This book revolves around Victoria Dawson, a chubby little girl with ordinary looks. She has spent her whole life being second best to her perfect sister Gracie. However, she does not hate Gracie, they both love each other immensely. Victoria’s father called her their “tester cake” before the perfect recipe (Gracie) was born. She was always told that she was a disappointment to her parents, while fighting an endless war against her weight, tolerating harsh and rude comments from her father, she knows that she has to move away from home as soon as possible and she did.
Victoria did her graduation in Chicago away from her home i.e. Los Angles and later moved to New York to get a job she loves - as a High School teacher, again to the disappointment to her father who discourages her plans and persuades her to look for something in the field of advertising which will pay her much more, but she makes her own life at New York which she enjoys, while her battle against her weight continues. Her only link to her family was through Gracie.
When Gracie announces her engagement to a man who is just like their handsome, egotistic and self-centered father, Victoria cannot help but feel even more detested, and like a failure once again. Ahead is a challenge and a risk: to accept herself as she is, celebrate it, and win the victories she has fought so hard for and deserves.
Big girl or not, she is a gem of a person!
My Rating – 3/5
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