EAT YOUR HEART OUT

Shaun of the Dead meets The Breakfast Club in this teen horror/comedy.

Soccer star Vivian Ellenshaw likes herself just as she is—too bad her coach, who is also her stepfather and who loves reminding her of calorie counts, doesn’t feel the same. When Vivian begrudgingly boards the van to spend her Christmas break at Camp Featherlite for Overweight Teens, she’s faced with her ex–best friend Allie DuMonde, who’s hoping to rise above the stigma she feels from living in a trailer park by secretly making a movie exposing Featherlite. Things get progressively worse as college jock and farmers’ son Steve Miller proves to be a less-than-skilled van driver (too bad Vivian finds him so cute), and the girls are joined by Paul Fannon, obnoxious son of a CEO; computer geek Sheldon Smentkowski; and Rachel Benedict, a sweet Christian who’s hiding a major secret. Amid a catastrophic snowstorm that is completely unexpected for Flagstaff, Arizona, it’s clear that Featherlite’s new-and-improved nutrition bars are changing their fellow campers into skinny, hungry zombies. Soon it’s the six narrators against the world. DeVos spends a bit too much time inside the heads of her various narrators but gives Vivian and Allie a lot of heart and successfully debunks several obesity epidemic myths. All main characters are assumed White, but there is heroic fat representation throughout.

A fun romp with edge-of-your-seat twists and turns.