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A review by kindlekatiies
One to Watch by Kate Stayman-London
1.0
I was so excited and let down so fast...
Normally when I dnf a book, I don't really review it since it's mostly cause I'm mood reader. However, this one has been rubbing me wrong from the start.
For starters being marketed as body positivity, I feel like this book is anything but that. It could actually be more harmful if you’re already dealing with body image issues. Which is the opposite of body positivity and I say this as someone who is around a size 10-14. It's not to say that some of the things Bea was dealing were valid, but it to have the same negative attitude on every single page was rough to read.
The other issues I had was the way this book was set up with email chains and tweets (of not even with the main character most of the time), and there was little actual dialogue within the parts that were not emails, tweets, or text messages. It was jarring and took me out of the story a lot of the time.
Normally when I dnf a book, I don't really review it since it's mostly cause I'm mood reader. However, this one has been rubbing me wrong from the start.
For starters being marketed as body positivity, I feel like this book is anything but that. It could actually be more harmful if you’re already dealing with body image issues. Which is the opposite of body positivity and I say this as someone who is around a size 10-14. It's not to say that some of the things Bea was dealing were valid, but it to have the same negative attitude on every single page was rough to read.
The other issues I had was the way this book was set up with email chains and tweets (of not even with the main character most of the time), and there was little actual dialogue within the parts that were not emails, tweets, or text messages. It was jarring and took me out of the story a lot of the time.