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This is a very important book, and I'm glad I read it! While I did not agree with 100% of the author's points, I absolutely support her main idea and think more people should read this book and others like it to raise awareness of anti-fat bias and strategies for dealing with it.
I will say, it was frustrating that the author didn't apply the same rigorous critical thinking to the studies she liked as to the ones she didn't. It seemed unbalanced at times.
But overall, I would still recommend it.
DNF at page ~140.
sigh I have no one but myself to blame. If I'd only read the cover copy instead of auto-buying, I would've known what to expect. But I didn't. I went in blind, and it was going so well up until the DNF point. I enjoyed the characters individually, and their repartee was excellent. I always have a soft spot for relationships that have epistolary elements. BUT then it all came crumbling down.
Funny, how the hero stealing every bit of the heroine's agency - WITH HER BEST FRIEND'S PERMISSION - can do that.
Marked as Put Aside Temporarily, since I might decide to come back to it when I'm in the right frame of mind and a particularly forgiving mood.
Ah, romance. When the hero stealth attack kisses the heroine out of nowhere, “taking from her before she had the wherewithal to refuse” and then has the audacity to refuse to take the blame for his actions.
So I removed myself from the book on her account.
This was only 50 pages in, and I was already not completely sold. I will endure a lot for a fake engagement trope, but the characters were ridiculous, and the plot was flimsy. Then this happened, and I was quite frankly happy to set it aside.
I will probably give this one another shot in the future. I just started it at the wrong time and wasn't really in the mood for it.
DNF @ page 140.
Dude won't take no for an answer, and if I could reach through the book and punch him, I would. Story-wise, I'm equally bored but already dreading the Drama setup. Cute dogs were all this one had going for it, alas.