Main Characters: Heather Wells, Cooper Cartwright
Series: Heather Wells Series, Book 3

Life is reasonably rosy for plus-size ex-pop star turned Assistant Dormitory Director and sometime sleuth Heather Wells. Her freeloading ex-con dad is finally moving out. She still yearns for her hot landlord, Cooper Cartwright, but her relationship with “rebound beau,” vigorous vegan math professor Tad Tocco, is more than satisfactory. Best of all, nobody has died lately in “Death Dorm,” the aptly nicknamed student residence that Heather assistant-directs. Of course every silver lining ultimately has some black cloud attached. And when the latest murdered corpse to clutter up her jurisdiction turns out to be her exceedingly unlovable boss, Heather finds herself on the shortlist of prime suspects—along with the rabble-rousing boyfriend of her high-strung student assistant and an indecently handsome young campus minister who’s been accused of taking liberties with certain girls’ choir members.

With fame beckoning her back into show business (as the star of a new kids’ show!) it’s a really bad time to get wrapped up in another homicide. Plus Tad’s been working himself up to ask her a Big Question, which Heather’s not sure she has an answer for . . .

It’s gonna be really hard to review this book without spoiling the heck out of it for you so I’m warning you now, this review is going to be ripe with spoilers so if you’re wanting to read these books (this is book #3) and you don’t want me to spoil the books, then probably you should not read this review until after you’ve read the books.

You’ve been warned.

Seriously, if you don’t want to know what happens in the book (the good juicy bits) then you need to move the party train along.

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Alright, that’s enough with the warnings, now on with the review.

This book starts off with yet another death at Death Dorm, who just happens to be Heather’s new boss, Dr. Veatch. The boss that Heather didn’t care for and though this is like the same bat channel and same bat time, the difference this time around is Heather is a suspect. HA! Things are different around Heather’s world right now because her Dad is moving out of her and Cooper’s house, she’s got herself a man (because Cooper doesnt’ want to be her rebound guy) and Jordan is going to be a DAD! I know, shock of all shocks, huh?

We see the same characters come back from the last book, like Sarah the grad student worker, Heather’s old boss Tom, Heather’s Dad, Gavin McGoren and I love Gavin just as much in this book as I did in the last book. There’s just something about Gavin that I can’t help but love. His adoration of Heather, the way he has complete faith in her and his sense of humor. Goodness, the scenes that Gavin is in always has me in fits of giggles. He’s such a cutie patootie.

It was so good that Cooper still played a big part of this book which means that he’s still a big part of Heather’s life. The whole Cooper and Heather thing had my heart sighing all over the dang place and I am totally happy with the way that came about. All I can say is:

ITS ABOUT DAMN TIME!

I love me some Cooper Cartwright with his hairy hands and muscle-y arms and his manly physique, his unkempt hair and just everything, he’s the total package and I just love him to death. The whole crush that Heather has on Cooper is totally felt by me, I totally know how she feels and I’ve been crushing on Cooper right along with Heather through out the entire series so when they finally land the deal, it did my heart wonders.

This book follows Heather as she plows right into the case that Cooper tells her to stay far away from. It was good to see that Heather hasn’t changed much in the way that she still doesn’t listen to Cooper and still needs to be rescued by Cooper and the jealousy we see from Cooper with Tad (Heather’s boyfriend) made my heart go pitter patter in my chest. The secondary characters were great and even though the mystery behind who killed Dr. Veatch was totally obvious right from the jump, I still enjoyed this book quite a bit. I really recommend this series because it’s light, fluffy and cute.

It’s another winner and if you haven’t read this series, you totally should because this is Cabot doing what she does best, making readers laugh their tails off.

My final Grade: B+

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Main Characters: Heather Wells, Cooper Wainwright
Series: Heather Wells Series, Book 2

Former pop star Heather Wells has settled nicely into her new life as assistant dorm director at New York College–a career that does not require her to drape her size 12 body in embarrassingly skimpy outfits. She can even cope (sort of) with her rocker ex-boyfriend’s upcoming nuptials, which the press has dubbed The Celebrity Wedding of the Decade. But she’s definitely having a hard time dealing with the situation in the dormitory kitchen–where a cheerleader has lost her head on the first day of the semester. (Actually, her head is accounted for–it’s her torso that’s AWOL.)

Surrounded by hysterical students–with her ex-con father on her doorstep and her ex-love bombarding her with unwanted phone calls–Heather welcomes the opportunity to play detective . . . again. If it gets her mind off her personal problems–and teams her up again with the gorgeous P.I. who owns the brownstone where she lives–it’s all good. But the murder trail is leading the average-sized amateur investigator into a shadowy world. And if she doesn’t watch her step, Heather will soon be singing her swan song!

This is the second book in the Heather Wells series and because Heather rocks, she kept the party going in this one. This story takes off where the first book left off. I reviewed this book over at my old book blog, Sanctuary’s Finest and I can honestly say that I still feel the same way about this book so I’m just bringing my review from over there and planting it right here on my YA blog.

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Okay seriously? I can’t get enough of this series, I’m sucked into the world Meg Cabot has made up for Heather Wells and Cooper Cartwright, yeah they don’t get together in the first book and it doesn’t seem like they’ll get together throuhgout this book but Meg is expertly dangling the hook of hope before me and I have no doubt that they WILL get together, cause though Cooper does not seem like he likes her in both of these books, we, the readers know different…we know that he’s got it just as bad for Heather as she’s got it for him, he’s just very covert about it, instead of coming out and saying that he’s got the hots for his brother’s ex girlfriend, he does sweet things for her like, saves her from herself and the many enemies that she makes while trying unsuccessfully to stay out of the trouble Cooper told her to stay out of, she should be this TSTL heroine, but she’s not…she’s just so funny and so damn smart, it makes for great entertainment and reading.

In this book, Heather’s dorm is being labeled, Death Dorm because of all the dying students from last semester and really, who could blame them? But, Heather loves her dorms (even if she refuses to call them dorms but to hell with all that, they’re DORMS dammit!) and even though she’d like to stay out of everything, she can’t help but ask questions and go to parties and unknowingly lead students who have crushes on her on all in the hopes of getting into the party she needs to get into to get to the people she needs to talk to in order to get the answers she needs to solve the crimes Cooper has told her to stay out of, but gosh…she’s like Stephanie Plum for the college kids and I’m a fan! She may not be a size 6 hot shot klutz who is bangin’ the hottie cop with the adorable dog and the sexily mysterious Bounty Hunter with which she works with from Jersey, but Heather Wells holds her own, she’s a lively crackhead that totally cracks me up.

Her personality as seen through these books is very catchy and just fun.

And I just love it!

My favorite character of this book? Gavin McGoren. We saw him as the elevator hopping student from the last book, but he shows up again in this book and has a bigger part in it and I just love him to death, he’s so effing cute and funny, good gosh he’s funny…and I hope to see more of him!

So many things are happening in this book and the flow is fantastic, the writing superb and just everything is on point and I think you lovely ladies will enjoy it, so make sure you read it!

Good stuff.

Final Grade: B

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