As a plus-sized woman myself this book hits different.
If you are plus-sized or otherwise made to feel ‘less than’, or you are someone who wants to learn and try to understand how life can be for plus-sized people then I’d HIGHLY recommend this book!
Olivia manages to write about the thoughts, the struggles and life of a plus-sized woman in general in such a thoughtful and inclusive way. There were more than a few situations/scenes that reminded me of my own thought processes (very uncanny tbh).
I LOVE that she portrayed April as an independent and clever woman. She craves love and affection but she knows her worth. She knows that she is someone - with or without partner. She has her fanfic community, she has her lovely co-workers and I enjoyed reading a book where you don’t get the feeling the life of the protagonists revolves around love and their relationship ALL the time.
As much as I liked it, and this will be one of my reading highlights of the year, I’m sure, I would have given 4.75 stars if there was the option. That’s just because of preference, as I could have done with less explicit love scenes, and if we’re beeing picky then I would have loved for Olivia to take us a tad deeper into the “working-through-things” part, when things between April and Marcus got a bit rocky. She does a good job, and it is believable/authentic but I would have loved to delve a bit deeper. But as the novel already has 400 pages, I get that some people wouldn’t have liked it if it would have been even longer.
All in all, a VERY good book!
