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The Do-Over by Sharon M. Peterson
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
2.0
Thank you Netgalley and Bookouture Audio for the complementary copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.
I REALLY wanted to love this book. At the end of the day, I found the overall plot to be quite disorientating. At the beginning I thought they handled the topic of weight and body dismorphia quite well, but as the story progressed it because too centralised and Percy’s mother became too fixated on her daughters weight for it to not to be the centre of the story. Her mother also displayed some straight up toxic characteristics as the story went on and as a result, I found it quite frustrating to listen to; especially with the constant comparisons between Percy and her ‘perfect’ sister Fi. I did however like the comic relief MiMi brought to the story as the fun-loving grandmother, but I found it really hard to look past the obsessive focus on Percy’s weight defining her entire personality.
I REALLY wanted to love this book. At the end of the day, I found the overall plot to be quite disorientating. At the beginning I thought they handled the topic of weight and body dismorphia quite well, but as the story progressed it because too centralised and Percy’s mother became too fixated on her daughters weight for it to not to be the centre of the story. Her mother also displayed some straight up toxic characteristics as the story went on and as a result, I found it quite frustrating to listen to; especially with the constant comparisons between Percy and her ‘perfect’ sister Fi. I did however like the comic relief MiMi brought to the story as the fun-loving grandmother, but I found it really hard to look past the obsessive focus on Percy’s weight defining her entire personality.