A review by malpal132
The Spare Room by Laura Starkey

2.0

the prose felt simple in a bad way but i love a quiet cinnamon roll mmc, so that was enjoyable. and i think there's definitely a purpose and validity to writing an fmc with body image issues/a person who struggles not to be a door mat, but i also think the way it's handled is a window into the author's understanding of the complexity of those issues. here's what i saw through this author's window: there's quite a bit of internalized fatphobia. Instead of enriching the fmc's character, it flattened her. also, the wit was lukewarm and not memorable. ultimately i had an okay time but i was left pretty disappointed.