2.5 stars

Honestly, this book felt like pulling teeth. I wanted so bad to love this book. I saw this pretty black girl that looked like me, chubby and dark skin, and the whole time she was insecure, judgemental and unmotivated. I know at the end she is supposedly better, I still fell like this book was a let down. I think it was random and didn't have a real plot to it. The book was supposed to be about this big lie, so I thought maybe this lie would turn into her becoming a real activist or at least challenging herself to do better in her community, but that really wasn't the case. Plus at the end, it dragged on. She had already resolved her issues with the guy and it could have ended there, but instead it dragged and dragged. And those last chapters did not drive the story. The story was too repetitive, all they did was eat and complain and the activitist activities were just eating events and handing out flyers. I expected protests and social media videos to try to spread awareness. All in all, this book was dry and was sold and promoted as a book it was not. I would not recommend at all. It felt too much like a watt pad book and another insecure black girl. And though I liked the family parts, it should have been promoted as a family book and not a romance because that wasn't the main part of the story.