I'm on this journey of finding books with good plus size rep , in romance...
And well, this one checked in the list.

Personal Ratings : 4🌟

Disclaimers : I don't represent all plus size women. I am plus-size and I am all for advocating on being healthy. This review is on my preference alone.

Britta is a plus-size journalists who is working for a magazine that promotes health and wellbeing. When she has an assignment to review a health fitness application, she didn't know that she will also be signing up with Wes, the coach/ CEO of FitMi. Two souls coming together, with loads of fitness and proper exercising tracks, its a journey of self-love, and two souls that found each other in the midst of loss.

Personal Thoughts

This book was quite a slowburn book, with the romance part can be improved more, but in a sense, I enjoyed this book overall.

In my opinion as a Plus Size Woman, I was not offended reading this. In fact, I actually liked reading about both the main character's progress and how they came to accept one another, especially their flaws to become better people at the end. Britta is an easy character to love. What I liked about her was the fact she didn't make her size something that she hated , but more on she just accepts it as it but going on the fitness app just to become stronger for herself. Wes is a coach and lover is just CUTE. Like, oh my lord, he's patient and kind and even when he's mad, he didn't raise her voice to her (props to that).

Would love if the romance and the miscommunication part was a bit lesser to be honest. It just seemed to dragged on which kinda became anticlimatic at some point, but the message of the book especially on body positivity and exercising right is really good. I liked how the author promotes Healthy ways to exercise rather than focusing on Losing Weight. Everyone has different goals in life, but the most important is to stay healthy. I loved that the author talked about Body Dysmorphia and the onsets of Eating Disorders. Its super important to note that eating is mandatory to lose weight and I liked that its somewhat being reminded in this book.

I think I just enjoyed how Wes and Britta are friends who somewhat become lovers. They were comfortable one another, they were confident with each other, and sometimes love stories don't need to have a grand gesture of sorts, but more of having a person that you can be yourself with, even on days that you hate yourself.

This book is a hidden gem that I coincidentally came across. Would recommend.

Content Warnings taken from the author’s website:
- Off-page alcohol and drug abuse of a side character.
- Intentional changes in exercise and nutrition habits by a main character (that do not include dieting) including on-page reflections on exercise and eating habits.
- Reference to the eating disorder of a side character
- The heroine participates in brief and off-page over-exercise.
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Spice level : 2/5