Ian Carney

Taking a lot of its cues from Scooby Doo (which the authors admit to in an interview in the back of the book), The Thin of the Land sees the two sisters, Rebecca and Sugar Kat, along with Rebecca's childhood pen-pal, the soup-obsessed Mimi, solve the mystery of the body fat vampires. But the book is really about the Kat sisters. Sugar Kat is a world-famous model, for whom everything always seems absolutely effortless. Rebecca, on the other hand, has to work at everything, and repeatedly ends up in impossibly embarassing situations. On the surface they couldn't be more different, but Carney and Phoenix portray well the wild swings from Rebecca's enraged frustration with her sister to fierce protectiveness. The result is mostly realistic, except for the fact that if one of my sisters had been that perfect, I would have surely strangled her in her sleep.

For every girl who's ever felt less glamorous, less popular, or less well-loved than her sister, Where's it at, Sugar Kat, is cotton candy for your soul.… (mais)