I am not at all one to bash an author or her books, so this is not my intention. I am just giving another view here. What was all the hype? I'll bet there aren't more than a handful of folks who don't know everything that is in this book, having heard it all of our dieting lives. To me, the highlights of this book were: drink more water and walk walk walk. That is it. We KNOW that.However, the author's own story is interesting in itself. I would have waited for the paperback to read that though.