A review by joinreallife
Big Boned by Jo Watson

Did not finish book. Stopped at 14%.
 Thanks to Wattpad and Netgalley for the advance copy. Unfortunately, this was a DNF for me at 14%. I'm bummed because the synopsis seemed fun and we always need more fat character rep. I don't appreciate a main character's sibling's autism being used as a method of character growth for the MC. I also didn't love some casual biphobia that happened in the bit I did read. Is there a glanced-over mention of the MC thinking about how she can use brown makeup to get golden skin like a classmate? In South Africa? I don't love that. Even the 14% I did read was plodding and at nearly 400 pages, I think there could have been some more firm editing here. And this may be trivial, but the target audience seems to be young adult and there are references to Julio Iglesias and David Hasselhoff. I'm sorry, do current teens know who those dudes are? My thought is no, but maybe that's not the case in South Africa, which is where the author is from. Thanks again to the publisher and Netgalley, and sorry this one didn't work for me. :(