One to Watch

I wish the main character was developed more. Enjoyed the flip script of a plus size woman in the spotlight. However some of the red flags and toxicity I could have done without - although I guess that’s all life..

This is romance. I loved the character Bea, and I liked that she was plus size. I also like this bring up some of the problems with being plus size. I really did not like how the book changed between normal text, to emails, phone texts, messages, blogs posts, and more. It just took so much from the book for me, and that is the only reason I give it two stars. I received an ARC of this book. This review is my own honest opinion about the book like all my reviews are.

This was an interesting one, and I'm struggling to rate a little bit. I'm not super into reality TV and maybe having more context for the shows would've helped me as a reader, I'm not sure. I loved that we had a body-positive, fat woman looking for love, and saying "yes, I deserve love as much as everyone else" and being someone that others who look similar can see getting love. The friends and family were great, and the prose fun. That said, I had second hand embarrassment and bad feelings for so much of the dating portion because of how the some of the men treated her, I understood her hesitance to giving them a serious chance when there was no real reason to trust their motives. I didn't like how the romance played out and how key players acted at the end, but maybe that's just the drama of this type of show. I was rooting for her, but never for the romance, so I just was meh about the ending.

I loved this book more than I know how to explain. I have never felt more seen or related to with body issues and struggles and yet also celebrations of loving the skin I’m in. I’ve been dying for a plus size romance novel and here we are. Well done, Kate! Can’t wait for the movie version some day, it’s too good not to be!