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A review by _isabel_
The Weight of It All by N.R. Walker
emotional
funny
lighthearted
fast-paced
3.75
Very, very cute!
I think I might have been expecting something a smidge more complex, gritty and thoughtful, but all in all, this was very lovely and it made me smile so damn much.
Reed and Henry were absolutely fabulous protagonists, as were allllll the badass side characters, and I think this cute-as-hell, sweetly steamy and funny romance was precisely what I needed after a few tough reads.
Weight loss propaganda and all the fitness-and-diet shaming always makes me feel uncomfortable, so I was a bit worried about that; and although I think the whole conversation about it could have been sliiiighly more nuanced and thought-through, I still appreciated how N.R. Walker made it all about feeling good with one selves and not about some high and mighty "fit and skinny is better" assumption.
Still, I'd recommend you procede with caution if you have ED issues or body dysmorphia of any kind. Be gentle to yourselves people <3
I could have done without the HP references (I know, this is an older book, but yeah, I'd still love it if every single author would purge that s**t out of their romances ugh!), but yeah, all in all, I really did love this, especially the second half of the book. Reed and Henry's romance had a delicious friends-to-lovers arc, and I adored seeing all the tension, chemistry and attraction build throughout the book. This was a very lighthearted book (angst free and near-enough conflict free!) and it was just what I needed.
TWs/CWs: fatphobia, diet talk, body image issues, self-hate about said body issues, ageism.
I think I might have been expecting something a smidge more complex, gritty and thoughtful, but all in all, this was very lovely and it made me smile so damn much.
Reed and Henry were absolutely fabulous protagonists, as were allllll the badass side characters, and I think this cute-as-hell, sweetly steamy and funny romance was precisely what I needed after a few tough reads.
Weight loss propaganda and all the fitness-and-diet shaming always makes me feel uncomfortable, so I was a bit worried about that; and although I think the whole conversation about it could have been sliiiighly more nuanced and thought-through, I still appreciated how N.R. Walker made it all about feeling good with one selves and not about some high and mighty "fit and skinny is better" assumption.
Still, I'd recommend you procede with caution if you have ED issues or body dysmorphia of any kind. Be gentle to yourselves people <3
I could have done without the HP references (I know, this is an older book, but yeah, I'd still love it if every single author would purge that s**t out of their romances ugh!), but yeah, all in all, I really did love this, especially the second half of the book. Reed and Henry's romance had a delicious friends-to-lovers arc, and I adored seeing all the tension, chemistry and attraction build throughout the book. This was a very lighthearted book (angst free and near-enough conflict free!) and it was just what I needed.
TWs/CWs: fatphobia, diet talk, body image issues, self-hate about said body issues, ageism.
Moderate: Body shaming and Fatphobia