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A review by mariugonza
Dumplin' by Julie Murphy
1.0
I'm completely disappointed, this book ended up being something completely different to what I was expecting. The story is pretty mediocre, and Willowdean as a character is completely awful. She is portrayed as a confident girl, proud of who she is, but once you start getting deeper in the story and manage to know her better, you see she is not more than a bunch of hypocrisy, insecurity and selfishness. She doesn't have almost nothing that could make her special for me.
Also, this book has a lot of references that I as a young Hispanic person, find hard and almost impossible to understand. Whether references to country music or American culture, jokes and comments that, for me, are out of place in the context and a lot of things of this style. I don't know if I'm the only one to pass to this process of confusion while reading (I didn't have an idea of who was Dolly Parton before reading this, and I had to Google it 😅)
Finally, I want to say that I was expecting this book as an empowerment story that could get rip off all the stereotypes, but it actually seems like it increases them. In addition, the whole thing of the pageant, is less than... I don't know... sixty pages? The thing is that the entire plot revolves around a love triangle between Bo, and Mitch, and it ends without any solution to it.
Dumplin' lacks of everything that makes a good book in my opinion.
Also, this book has a lot of references that I as a young Hispanic person, find hard and almost impossible to understand. Whether references to country music or American culture, jokes and comments that, for me, are out of place in the context and a lot of things of this style. I don't know if I'm the only one to pass to this process of confusion while reading (I didn't have an idea of who was Dolly Parton before reading this, and I had to Google it 😅)
Finally, I want to say that I was expecting this book as an empowerment story that could get rip off all the stereotypes, but it actually seems like it increases them. In addition, the whole thing of the pageant, is less than... I don't know... sixty pages? The thing is that the entire plot revolves around a love triangle between Bo, and Mitch, and it ends without any solution to it.
Dumplin' lacks of everything that makes a good book in my opinion.