Unfortunately, I liked this book by Talia Hibbert even less than ‘Get a Life, Chloe Brown’.
The plot behind the romance felt forced, almost as if the author wanted some of her favourite tropes (if not all of them, there were so many) in this book. This, however, had me feeling like she’d spun the story and the characters around those tropes, rather than fitting the clichés in where they would ‘naturally’ fit/where the story would call for them.
Also, I didn’t really care too much for the characters, as I couldn’t connect with the MC, and their attraction to each other just didn’t reach me. Not because I thought that they shouldn’t be attracted to each other, but I guess it all happened a bit too fast for my taste.
As I mostly enjoyed the style of writing, though, and because the author didn’t just breeze over some of the more difficult situations and traumas, I can still give it two stars.
Still, I gather that this was (one of) her first novel, and there is definitely quite a big improvement from this to the Chloe Brown-book.
Ultimately, I’m a bit bummed out, tbh, because I just root for those books that portrait plus-sized women as just as beautiful and deserving of their ‘happy ever after’. I realise that I might have to change my approach to books like these. I want to be able to review and rate them with the same eye and mix between objectivity and subjectivity as I do other books, simultaneously I don’t want to lower their stance just because I have too high an expectation going into them.
