The main character is so decidedly elitist despite being written to not be so that it comes off as hypocritical at best. She is a size eighteen and gourgeous. It’s written as if it’s supposed to be a big deal and shocking, and subversive, but is mentioned so often it starts sounding like a broken record. This is a point a lot of people are writing about in the comments, but I would like to touch upon another point that bothered me far more. Going back to my first statement about Jenny being an elitist, she has some opinions about food that I found extremely annoying. I know several cooks and chefs, who would never dream of disparaging simple foods like sanwitches. Honestly the fact that Jenny is personally offended by having to, oh the horror, put smoked salmon between two pieces of bread just comes of ass so snobby and totally unnessacery. And smoked salmon sandwiches are delicious so that makes me question her taste, and they are very convenient as anyone who’s ever eaten smoked salmon will tell you, the oil from it get’s all over you hands. Not to mention that not everyone can affored the time and inconvenience to make something complicated when just wanting a quick bite to eat. What cook would ever disparaged a simple dish but with high quality ingredients anyway? If it were a preference for margarin over butter I would find that far more genuine, though margarin does have it’s place. Then there is the fact that she’s estranged from her own father because he, gasp, wrote a popular cook book. As if the art of cooking isn’t something you need to be taught and those sorts of cook books often serve as a gate way to «propper» cooking as Jenny calls it. I understand that a character can have faults and that we don’t have to like them for the book to be good, but the line is drawn when it isn’t aknowledged by the look that these are character flaws. In fact it’s as if the book want to paint her as a saint.

Jenny constantly looks down at every person in the story. It’s sort of started that this is because of the silly elitism that they prosess, but coming from Jenny that’s rich. She’s also a little sexist. There is a character who is described as massivly fat with unfortunately colored hair who is in love whith a young pretty blond who is going out with the handsome son of the house. Now this guy clearly is describes as unnattractive because of his weight despite our heroine being attractive at her own weight. This lept out to me as adouble standard as the only hansome men were athletically built, while women can apperantly be much larger. Then despite the young lady clearly being in love with the son of the house Jenny’s inner diologue comments that she should just go back to the fat unnattractive guy because he’s so in love that he would never cheet on her and treat her buy her pretty things, and that the son is just a pretty face that’s throw her over. Ignoring the fact that a) not cheeting on somebody is basic basic and not a huge amazing thing you should be gratefull for, and b) that the fat guy is pretty mutch attracted to the girl for the same reason that the girl is attracted to the son. He also sounds so thoroughly unnappealing to the reader that I can’t imagin her being attracted to him at all.

All in all the book was ok. Not great litterature, but not terrible either.