I appreciate how important the message is - too many people are succumbing to obesity-related diseases and the food industry is not taking a whole lot of responsibility for the problem. However, the satire here is much too heavy-handed and, although Larsson has made a conscious decision to use Donald Duck & Co. as characters in order to further her satire, I find having known characters is just distracting. It's really unfortunate as I think the grotesqueness of the story is well done, but most of it gets lost because I keep feeling like it should have been a cartoon rather than a novel. Really great idea, but the execution made it a miss for me. ( )