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Brilliance like this unfortunately still rarely exists in YA lit, and it's a real shame, because YA lit needs more authors like Robin Brande. FAT CAT is funny, wise, super-intelligent, and heart-stoppingly romantic. It's the kind of book that makes you smile weeks after reading it as you remember why you still enjoy and read YA contemporary realistic fiction.

Readers of all shapes and sizes (body and brain) will be able to connect with Cat. Hers is the voice of a levelheaded, smart, yet insecure teenager. Brande does not dumb down her fictional teenagers, with the surprising yet joyful result that they will end up appealing to everyone. How often do we get to read about smart girls who are good at and into math and science? Not often enough; my inner physicist is jumping with happiness even as I write this and reflect on FAT CAT.

Cat--and thus, us readers--learns an important lesson without sounding aggressively moralistic. The theme of FAT CAT is a powerful one, hinting at the harmful effects of our modern-day materialistic, processed consumerist culture. Cat's development from bitter girl with a low body image to a happier, healthier, more energetic, and more creative young woman may just about turn smart readers off of junk food. I honestly laid off the Oreos for several weeks after reading this book, so unappealing the thought of sweets were to me. Rarely does a book have so strong a hold on me in the rest of my life!

The first half of the story focuses on Cat's science project, while the second half discusses more her relationships with other people. The change of scope is a little bizarre and disconcerting, most likely because the science part is so wonderful to read, but I appreciated the character development of this book. The main "cast" of characters is great, particularly Cat's best friend, as well as Cat's romance.

FAT CAT is a story you catch yourself thinking about randomly even weeks after reading it. It's also the book you'll want to talk about to your friends, your mother, your teacher, that random middle-aged lady sitting next to you at the bus stop....It's the book that you'll hold up and say, "See? This is what quality YA literature is like. Now excuse me while I reread it; you may get your own copy elsewhere, if you'd like."


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Fat Cat Robin Brande Books Reviews

I loved this book and its main character. I loved watching Cat's growth (and loss). The science elements were really fun to read, but I also loved the romantic elements, as Cat gets in touch with her inner hot girl, and her friendship with her best friend Amanda--who is the kind of delightfully human, supportive and caring best friend we'd all love to have. All in all a beautifully done and really engaging book--well worth the read! Kudos too to the author for providing some sources for readers interested in reading more on the subject of Cat's research.
Absolutely loved it! Story stayed funny and thoughtful! If I have some critique, I would like to see better representation of bigger people.
Love the story ) the characters are believable and although it’s a teen romance, I feel like it’s applicable to young adults as well.
Loved it. Great story, very interesting and intriguing ideas, didn't want to put the book down.
I honestly loved how this book had so much science, but it was intriguing and easy to understand. I also like how the author only had a total of maybe 5 swear words in the book and how she had the romance interlaced so it wasn't too much, but had the perfect amount for the plot. This book truly communicates how it feels to be overweight, and in my opinion is fairly realistic for being a fiction book.
Catherine Locke wants, more than anything, to beat her rival and former best friend Matt McKinney in the science fair, but her task is made even more difficult when she's assigned the topic Homo erectus, early man from well over a million years ago. As she looks at the image of her topic, however, what she finds herself doing is envying the thin figure of the ancient female. Cat is not thin. So Cat embarks on a year-long journey of transformation, living the same as early man without technology or processed foods, using her own body as the source of her research.

I loved this book. I loved Cat, who is smart and funny and honest and unabashedly ambitious. Her family is normal, her friends are genuine, and her transformation from "Fat Cat" (the cruel nickname given to her by her middle school tormentors) to hot Cat at the end of her junior year is utterly believable. We all want to believe that the scars of 7th grade don't last that long, but they do, and so watching Cat come to terms with the past raises this book above the typical Cinderella story. Every teenage girl should read this book.
Catherine has won science fairs in the past, and this year her drive to succeed is no different. She wants to compete, have her plan approved by her picky science teacher, and transform her pudgy body in the process. She does all this in the most drastic way. By recreating the lifestyle of her early ancestors, Cat performs an experiment on herself. Living like the early hominids, she stops eating processed foods, gives up cosmetics, forgoes appliances and walks everywhere. Living like a Neanderthal is painful, but she sticks with it. Matt, a science rival and former best friend, seems to be foiling her goals. And she doesn't know how to confront him about how he hurt her years ago.

As Cat sheds weight, she gains a new perspective on her health, friendships and latest romances. I've read other novels that incorporate weight loss, but this one is different because of it's depth of characters. I enjoyed Cat, her best friend Amanda, and the other major as well as minor players in the novel. I adored Brande's debut EVOLUTION, ME & OTHER FREAKS OF NATURE and found myself loving this even more.
Brilliance like this unfortunately still rarely exists in YA lit, and it's a real shame, because YA lit needs more authors like Robin Brande. FAT CAT is funny, wise, super-intelligent, and heart-stoppingly romantic. It's the kind of book that makes you smile weeks after reading it as you remember why you still enjoy and read YA contemporary realistic fiction.

Readers of all shapes and sizes (body and brain) will be able to connect with Cat. Hers is the voice of a levelheaded, smart, yet insecure teenager. Brande does not dumb down her fictional teenagers, with the surprising yet joyful result that they will end up appealing to everyone. How often do we get to read about smart girls who are good at and into math and science? Not often enough; my inner physicist is jumping with happiness even as I write this and reflect on FAT CAT.

Cat--and thus, us readers--learns an important lesson without sounding aggressively moralistic. The theme of FAT CAT is a powerful one, hinting at the harmful effects of our modern-day materialistic, processed consumerist culture. Cat's development from bitter girl with a low body image to a happier, healthier, more energetic, and more creative young woman may just about turn smart readers off of junk food. I honestly laid off the Oreos for several weeks after reading this book, so unappealing the thought of sweets were to me. Rarely does a book have so strong a hold on me in the rest of my life!

The first half of the story focuses on Cat's science project, while the second half discusses more her relationships with other people. The change of scope is a little bizarre and disconcerting, most likely because the science part is so wonderful to read, but I appreciated the character development of this book. The main "cast" of characters is great, particularly Cat's best friend, as well as Cat's romance.

FAT CAT is a story you catch yourself thinking about randomly even weeks after reading it. It's also the book you'll want to talk about to your friends, your mother, your teacher, that random middle-aged lady sitting next to you at the bus stop....It's the book that you'll hold up and say, "See? This is what quality YA literature is like. Now excuse me while I reread it; you may get your own copy elsewhere, if you'd like."