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Curvy Girls Can't Date Quarterbacks
by Kelsie Stelting
I figured I would have a fun time with this book, I was not expecting to love it.
It's not just that it's a sweet fluffy love story (it is) or that it has a lot of my favorite tropes (it does). It's the fact that this book also has a focus on friendship and body positivity. I would say more than on the romance.
Sure, Rory wants to find love, specifically with Beckett whom she's been crushing on for forever, but she also wants friends. She wants to feel confidant. She wants to feel accepted. And that is what really sold me on this book.
I also felt kinship with Rory. Both because I am a fat girl, but also because I got a diagnosis last year that left me feeling betrayed by my body. And while that was only touched on here, I really sympathized with her feelings. Her mother too. I liked that the book highlighted that sometimes you can do everything right, never make a misstep, and still your body might wake up one day and decide "welp, this is how we're doing things now".
There's a lot to like here. Is it the greatest love story ever told? No. Is it a perfect highschool romance between two perfect people? Also no. But I still loved it. Because it showed that curvy girls can be beautiful, football stars can dislike sports, health nuts can have high cholesterol, that you just have to learn to love yourself, regardless of how the world see you.
I wish this book had been around when I was in highschool.
It's not just that it's a sweet fluffy love story (it is) or that it has a lot of my favorite tropes (it does). It's the fact that this book also has a focus on friendship and body positivity. I would say more than on the romance.
Sure, Rory wants to find love, specifically with Beckett whom she's been crushing on for forever, but she also wants friends. She wants to feel confidant. She wants to feel accepted. And that is what really sold me on this book.
I also felt kinship with Rory. Both because I am a fat girl, but also because I got a diagnosis last year that left me feeling betrayed by my body. And while that was only touched on here, I really sympathized with her feelings. Her mother too. I liked that the book highlighted that sometimes you can do everything right, never make a misstep, and still your body might wake up one day and decide "welp, this is how we're doing things now".
There's a lot to like here. Is it the greatest love story ever told? No. Is it a perfect highschool romance between two perfect people? Also no. But I still loved it. Because it showed that curvy girls can be beautiful, football stars can dislike sports, health nuts can have high cholesterol, that you just have to learn to love yourself, regardless of how the world see you.
I wish this book had been around when I was in highschool.