One to Watch

This book is not for fat women, coming from a fat woman. It's like trauma porn for nonfat people to get a glimpse into the worst stereotypes of the fat experience. I forced myself through this. I'm also not shocked that going through the ratings on goodreads, the people that agree with me are also fat. I really went into this excited about the representation, but the only representation present was the triggering vitriol the mc receives online. I also just did not like Bea's personality. Being obsessed with your best friend who is engaged to someone that you helped him cheat on, but he never gave you the time of day is gross and pathetic and not someone I want to root for. There was no squee moment because the whole book makes you question if any these guys are worth it so I didn't care about her getting with any of them. (If you're not going to have a squee moment, at least give me some smut, ya know?)
If you've read any of my reviews on romance books that I didn't like, you know I'm keeping a Taylor Swift count. Because generally speaking, the more her name is dropped unnecessarily throughout a book, the more I have an uncanny and completely coincidental dislike for it. There were 4 (if you count the author's bio... To be fair other artists were mentioned, but only once: Lizzo, Rihanna, Ariana Grande. I just want to understand this phenomenon with Swifties and their penchant for problematic characters and plot points.
Anyway, if you are a fellow fat and you don't want to read a bunch of traumatic bs, but still want a fat bachelorette Cinderella story where you are actually rooting for the couple, go read If the Shoe Fits by Julie Murphy.