I couldn't finish this. The writing style wasn't to my taste, and I neither liked the characters nor found them interesting enough to read anyway. Add in the emphasis, voiced by multiple characters, on the main character being fat and therefore unattractive -- look, Jane Austen describes Lydia Bennet as "stout", and Lydia has no shortage of male attention, so if you want to convince me that a young woman in a Regency novel is too overweight to attract suitors, you're going to have to write her as morbidly obese to a degree that would imply a major metabolic dysfunction, not simply non-sylphlike. The combination of all these got me to where I didn't care what happened to the characters. ( )