heidirgorecki 's review for:

Sunny Side Up: A Novel by Katie Sturino

DID NOT FINISH: 65%

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This was shallow, unrealistic and distasteful. It tried to promote itself as an overweight-acceptance book but thru so much of it, she was ruminating about body-shaming herself one second, and accepting the next, just to go back again and obsess in detail. It was often played off as trying to be funny but it wasn’t in the least. It just felt depressing.

For unrealistic, I don’t know of too many startups that make it in NYC for a 20-30 something. It seemed like everything miraculously worked out for Sunny and just wasn’t believable. 

And thru the whole book, she was basically just interested in one one-night stand after another. Then blogged about her sexual exploits - in a newsletter! - which felt insane and so so cringey. Who does that??

Multiple times I almost DNFd it and should have done it at the first. Really hated it. 

Thanks to Netgalley for the advanced copy of this book. All opinions are mine. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Sexual content