Reviews - Curvy Girls Can't Date Quarterbacks

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Curvy Girls Can't Date Quarterbacks

Kelsie Stelting

3.72 AVERAGE

tawnie96's review against another edition

4.0

funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

kalliste's review against another edition

2.0

This book has some great messages for teenage girls, but also some terrible ones.

Everyone knows that if you use someone for a bet it's all going to implode at some point!

I enjoyed the book enough to finish it, but there were some huge issues for me, right from the beginning:

- The book begins with Rory taking a pregnancy test because her health teacher mother can't think of any other reason that she might be gaining weight and have lost her period. Even though, in her class that very day she's teaching the girls about PCOS. Come on Mrs H! So, she sends Rory off to the doctor, who diagnoses PCOS and when Mrs H finds out, in the middle of teaching the class, SHE LEAVES THE CLASS to call the doctor! Like, what? No! There is no world that this would happen. But how else would unsupervised teenagers make a bet otherwise, though?
- Rory and her friends think it's totally ok to film Beckett, the quarterback, without his knowledge so they can get some info on him. I was so disappointed this didn't come back to bite them because this is not ok.

Everything just happens so fast in this book that there is no time to develop anything.

moxiereads's review against another edition

1.5

1.5 ✨

I have a lot of problems with this book. As a girl who was a fat teenager (and a fat adult, but that's a different story) this should have resonated with me, but it just didn't.

First of all, if my mom was the health teacher at my school and made as many subtle jabs as Rory's mom did while I was in class with her, I would have died on the spot.

Beckett might be a good person, but you can't tell me that a high school aged boy wouldn't be more standoffish towards a girl his teammate literally moo'ed at during practice.

Merritt sucks. Her mom sucks. That whole family needs a solid ass kicking.

I'm sorry, but if the guy I was trying to date nicknamed me "cupcake" after watching me eat a cupcake and then continued calling me that at school where he KNEW people were mean about it. Automatic no.

The cupcake necklace and the photo shoot at the pier... all of it felt like the set up of an elaborate prank. Maybe I'm biased, but I spent so much of this book saying "no, that's a trap. You're gonna get hurt."

Her mom was worried, but the constant pregnancy tests and doctor visits and limited what she could eat at school was overbearing as hell. Maybe talk to your kid and don't just control their every move???

Her friends sucked as well (don't get me started on her only friends being the other "curvy" girls, because that's a different can of worms) and they dropped her immediately because... they thought she'd do the same? That's not friendship, babe, that's a business deal.

How was Rory punished after literally being pelted with cupcakes, spurred on by Merritt? How did Merritt get more slack than Rory. The answer is that she's head cheerleader and also conventionally pretty - I'll give this one to the author, because that is accurate.

Real life doesn't have these happy endings, but also it wouldn't have happened this way. Everything was written to paint these characters as super complex and deep, but really sometimes a bitchy girl (Merritt) is just a bitchy girl.

I did appreciate the dedication: "For any girl who's never felt good enough to get a happily ever after. You are worthy, exactly as you are." And the author's body positivity in general, I just think maybe YA romances aren't my thing??