A review by bookworm_ohsea
Welcome to the School by the Sea by Jenny Colgan

2.0

Super disappointing to see so much body shaming of teenage girls in this book. Colgan  described the bodies of adolescents experiencing food insecurity as “gloopy” - and that was only the start of the fatphobic, classist garbage language that sometimes went on for pages at a time, and the gross jokes about grown men gawking at (and wanting to do more to) teenage girls were an added ick factor. I didn’t look for content warnings for this one because usually Colgan’s works are light and fluffy, which is what I wanted right now. I’m also super irked that I started to care about some of the characters and still want to read the second book in the series despite the how many times I rolled my eyes or fully burst out with frustrated exclamations. Someone tell me the writing gets better!
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