A review by thequeeraunt
The Second You're Single by Cara Tanamachi

Did not finish book. Stopped at 46%.
I DNF-ed this audiobook because of the near-constant body talk happening. I suspect that Tanamachi was trying to write a body-positive heroine, but the constant shaming the heroine experiences around what she eats and does and looks like just completely ruined the experience for me. It wasn't limited to the heroine, either. The hero also has to deal with internalized anti-fatness in his life in addition to the comments of those around him. There's just TOO MUCH weight talk and I stopped reading out of disgust because anything even remotely romantic was ruined by the fixation on the size of characters' bodies. (Also, if that woman on the cover is supposed to be the main character? There's some MAJOR ARTISTIC LIBERTY being taken there because Sora self-describes as a size 14 and in no universe does that match the cover illustration).

There are other romance writers who have undertaken to write larger-bodied characters and have managed to do so without also making me sit and listen to a near-constant stream of anti-fat language. 
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