Big Summer

If they had half stars, I would have given it a 3.5. Like many others, I was non-plussed by the total genre shift if the middle. However, unlike many others, I actually enjoyed the whodunnit more than the overcoming the fat-shaming mean girl narrative.

While there wasn't anything wrong with the Daphne character, there wasn't really anything profound about her journey, either. Or maybe it's because I recently read One to Watch & that book explored the theme so much deeper & more true.

A fun, beach-read type of book! I didn't foresee it becoming a murder mystery when I opened the book, but the story moves quickly for the most part and there are a lot of twists and turns to keep you guessing.

I liked the general personality of the narrator, a 25 year-old plus-size influencer, but some of the parts dragged for me. There were an excessive number of outfit descriptions with excessive detail and it read like a parable about social media.