Review: Fat issues? Contains spoilers
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 11 23, 2012
I really want to like this book, but here's the the thing that really rubbed me the wrong way. Our heroine has a real issue, true. Body image issues are no joke, especially when one struggles with their weight their entire life (I have struggled with mine for the last 12 years and topped out at 210 until I started eating better this year). However, my real gripe with this book is that Christy's 'biggest' weight isn't really that big. 200 lbs is nothing these days. And i get it, it's all about how one feels about oneself, but i think a more realistic biggest weight would have been more since Christy herself said that she would go to 3 to 4 different stores to get everything she wanted. She had a food addiction and that's a REAL issue. If a REAL woman ate the way that Christy described, she would be pushing 300+, and she would have to specially order dresses to wear in a wedding, and she could gain 8lbs in a week. 200 lbs on a woman that's 5'0" to 5'6" in height would be about a size 18 to 20 (depending on proportions and how one carries their weight). I'm just saying, for the sake of believability, the author should consider an edit. 200 lbs is not 'disgusting'.I loved Cole and Christy and how they acted together. I actually liked Christy when she wasn't going on and on about how morbidly obese she was and how just one bite of a breadstick would set her off into a binge and how she had to lie about being gluten intolerant to avoid having to explain her food issue.I know that's a huge gripe for only part of the story, but it really takes up a huge chunk of the book that I felt compelled to write this. I feel that, because the book had so much detail and woe about our heroine's weight, that because it was such a 'low' number and Christy acts like it was like this huuuuge deal... i can only give this book 3.5 stars.Don't get me wrong, potential readers, this is a good book. I will get Max's book, and I do love this series. But I'm just really annoyed with the unrealistic weight that the author has deemed to be 'disgusting' for our heroine.