Clodagh Murphy

Sometimes you take out the trash just so others don't have to.

Having read and really enjoyed [b:Some Girls Do|19286433|Some Girls Do|Clodagh Murphy|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1386543296s/19286433.jpg|27334627] then accidentally paying for KU, I thought I'd try another by the author.

It was disturbingly bad. Not only did I feel like plot-wise it was a slightly more refine Rachel Van Dyken-which is not a compliment by any stretch, within 30% I saw transphobia, a lot of comments on size, and by the end there was casual treatment of addiction, orthorexia, anorexia all in a screwball, cheap laugh kind of way. Very much like Rachel Van Dyken's books strike me. Like the prior book I read by this author, the main character had a zany best friend who was gay. In this book, you basically never forget that. He come off disturbingly like a prop, but then again, so do all the characters-of which there are entirely too many to focus.

In the end, there's a nice dose of xenophobia-again for cheap laughs. There's a lot bitchy females, other than the wonderfully wonderful main character and maybe one or two others.

so yuck, gross, I'm totally bummed out by this. I was kind of fascinated when I started (it's the whole she traveled Africa and now she's hot because she lost weight) and then I thought I'd just take one for the team-and because this book has a whopping 4.something on here. The only way it deserves that is by being a wholly different book. Like completely rewritten. Absent that, I'd go for quiet removal of the transphobia and cheap body shaming jokes--or wait, maybe, yeah, just rewrite the book. It's too woven into the fabric.… (mere)