Wanted: A Husband

Absolutely lovely little story of how to find a husband :-D
We have a chubby little girl with really bad self-confidence, bad clothes, bad posture, and a bad attitude, and then there's an ugly duckling story. She gets help from a friend and ends up finding a husband. With a little “but I thought you...” mixed in.
It's funny and nice.

3.5 stars
This is a funny little romp, written just before the US entered WW1 (1917). There is some mention of “War Correspondents” etc, but no real sense that there's an epic war going on on the other side of the globe, which is funny in itself.
The main character is Darcy Cole, who is fading into the background and feeling very dull and boring because her two roommates are happily engaged, yet no one has ever looked twice at her. She goes to her friend Gloria to see if she can find some better way to live her life, and Gloria (often dragging her and once resorting to a friendly form of blackmail) helps her succeed. The transformation fills the first half of the book and the surprising way of obtaining a husband the second.

The narrator stole a bit of my fun in the beginning, as everything Darcy said was a plaintive whine. Halfway through it began to improve, and the narrator warmed to her story, giving some fun sound effects also. The only remaining thing that bothered me was the mispronounced words that occasionally cropped up. Three stars to the narrator.