kathrandolph's review against another edition
4.0
Loved that the main female character was not a size 2! Sweet romantic book.
kathrandolph's review
4.0
Loved that the main female character was not a size 2! Sweet romantic book.
theficster's review against another edition
5.0
Keith Burns and Brianna, made this one great. I loved it
goodbyepuckpie's review
4.0
By far and away my favourite of the series so far; I like the really matter of fact way the characters hooking up is handled, and it does a nice job with supporting characters showing up and being introduced here.
I also definitely appreciated there finally being some visible gay people in this series; mostly handled well, too.
I found the way the female protaganist's issues with her weight and her body image was handled to be sometimes really well, and sometimes really problematic for me; it's a really fine line and hard to manage but I definitely bounced hard off the reveal that she's way less fat than she thinks. (Read true as the POV of someone with body image issues; but also read as kind of condescending/shitty when it's the first 'fat' person we've seen mentioned in a series where every other female character has been pointed out as being slender/slim/thin.)
Content note: mentions of suicide, homophobic bullying, and a character with body image issues as a result of sudden weight gain related to medical reasons.
I also definitely appreciated there finally being some visible gay people in this series; mostly handled well, too.
I found the way the female protaganist's issues with her weight and her body image was handled to be sometimes really well, and sometimes really problematic for me; it's a really fine line and hard to manage but I definitely bounced hard off the reveal that she's way less fat than she thinks. (Read true as the POV of someone with body image issues; but also read as kind of condescending/shitty when it's the first 'fat' person we've seen mentioned in a series where every other female character has been pointed out as being slender/slim/thin.)
Content note: mentions of suicide, homophobic bullying, and a character with body image issues as a result of sudden weight gain related to medical reasons.
sararo's review
2.0
I just reread this, and even though it's supposed to be very body-affirming, there's some toxic body stuff going on - she's not fat, she's beautiful - and thinner than she thinks! Why can't she be fat AND beautiful? Under the surface, the book couples thinness and beauty, even though it's trying hard not to. This book is a missed opportunity.
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