📖 BOOK REVIEW⠀📚 Curvy Girls Can’t Date Soldiers
AUTHOR: Kelsie Stelting @KelsieStelting
Publisher: Kelsie Stelting LLC
Stars: ⭐⭐ ⭐1/2 + 🐢
Published: July 31, 2021
The Review 📚 Curvy Girls Can’t Date Soldiers
✨ The Title/Cover Draw:
- The book is #8 in the Curvy Girls Series. I love continuing on with each new story and the unique struggles each girl faces. Thank you to @kelsiestelting for allowing me to read this book!
💜 What I liked:
- This book follows Nadira, who is not only curvy but also has vitiligo. AND she is a Mathlete (so super smart!). She has been bullied in the past so she is very wary about opening up again. I really liked her point of view because she has quite a few hang ups to work through in her life.
😱 What I didn’t like:
- There is a decision that Nadira makes pretty early on that made me feel very frustrated (it’s in the summary). I understand that it was needed to resolve conflict at the end but for me it was hard to read at that point. I think I would have understood her logic about her decision if it had been explained differently, maybe?
🚦 My face at the end: 🥰
💭 3 Reasons to Read:
- 1. Plus size heroine
- 2. Unique POV and struggles
- 3. New male type! (who is not stereotypical)
🕧 Mini-Summary:
- Nadira gets paired up with a ROTC student as part of an email project as she deals with her own sense of self worth.
I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.
📘 Summary 📚 Curvy Girls Can’t Date Soldiers
He’s in love with me. The only problem? He thinks I’m someone else.
I’ve spent my whole life trying not to get bullied. For my frizzy hair. My freckles. The white patches on my black skin or the gap in my teeth. Not to mention the extra hundred pounds I have on most of my classmates.
So when my soldier pen pal wants to see a picture of me, I freak. I send him a picture of one of the it girls at school and move on. The odds of us meeting in person are less than zero, and for once in my life, I want to know what it feels like to be one of the beautiful girls. Someone a guy like him would be into.
And it is amazing… Until I start to feel more about him than just a pen pal should. He says he feels the same way, but when he wants to meet me, I have a huge problem.
How can I put my heart on the line when I can’t even show my face?