Review: A very fun series that deals with serious issues
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 01 21, 2014
Mara Jacob's The Worth Box Set lets you into the lives of Lizzie, Katie and Alison, three best friends since kindergarten who find themselves either childless, not married or both in their mid 30's.  I got Worth the Weight as a free book and immediately bought the boxed set because I knew I would want to read all of them.  Lizzie is the nice one, Katie is the beautiful one and Alison is the smart one even though these are labels they don't apply to themselves.  We meet all the characters in the first book about Lizzie.  She found her soul mate at 18 but they came from different worlds and he broke her heart and started her sublimating her emotions in food.  She loses the weight after 15 years and after she keeps it off for three she meets a guy she thinks she could like.  Trouble is that she has not had sex for 15 years.  She decides she will take time off from the successful PR firm she has built and seduce her old boyfriend.  Her rationale is that she would scratch an old itch and be ready for someone who would fit into the life she has built.  As all best laid plans, her goes awry.That is the core of the stories:  coming to term with emotions.  Lizzie traded food for love, Katie cannot have a child and her long marriage disintegrates under the pressure and Alison got pregnant and lost her baby, never told her best friends and pushed down the emotions she could never deal with.  The books deal with some heavy issues but never lose the light and fun story telling.