I was in the mood for a beach read to enjoy in the cool breeze of … my living room box fan. I’ve never watched the Bachelor/Bachelorette, but this book imagines a similar show (Main Squeeze). Our protagonist is Bea, a plus-size blogger who becomes the show’s first plus-size Main Squeeze.

The book is told through Bea’s perspective, but also through other context like text messages, audience chats, gossip columns, and more thoughtful online articles. The cast of characters is wonderfully diverse, but not in an “on-the-nose” kind of way. It’s not diverse for diversity’s sake, but because that’s the way the world looks. The main focus is body diversity, which struck a chord with me. Bea’s experiences as a fat person and the kinds of things that were said to and about her were very relatable. Her feelings about it were very relatable. The way she was made to feel was very relatable.

To be honest, I didn’t expect to enjoy this book as much as I did. I didn’t expect it to address body diversity so accurately in the way that it did. It exceeded my expectations.