Review: Couldn't Get Past the Food Issues
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 10 19, 2012
I wanted to like this book. I think it might have been good, but I just couldn't stomach the way the heroine refused to eat in front of anyone, and then scarfed down a bunch of junk food. I guess it might be realistic, but it was just too cliche to have a plus-size heroine do that. When I read the occasional rubanesque romance, I want to read about a woman who is comfortable with herself. Maybe there's just too much realism for my personal preference in a woman obsessed with body image and hiding away to eat. We have too much of that sort of thing in society. I don't want to read it in a romance. Again, just a personal preference. The writing was fine, and the book will probably appeal to many others, but not me. This was the first Kindle book I have ever returned, and I only did so because I couldn't continue after reading only a few pages past the sample. Maybe I shouldn't review it, since I didn't read it all, but I know there are other readers out there who will find her own body image and food attitudes a turn-off. I just couldn't get past my own ick factors.