content warnings: implied fatphobia
representation: fat main character

“‘Do you know what this means?’ I murmured those words against her mouth. She shook her head. I pulled back, knowing I probably had a possessive look on my face. That’s sure as hell how I felt. ‘It means you’re mine, Zara.’”

My first book in over a month and it was... just okay. Whipped is a smutty book about Zara who several times a week goes to a bakery that the hunky Max owns but has never plucked up the courage to talk to him. That is, until her company needs catering for an event and she decides to ask him. Sexytimes ensue.

There isn't anything bad about this book. It's competently written, the characters are generic but likable, and the sex scenes are pretty good. I think my only real issue with this that stopped me from wholeheartedly enjoying it is that Max is an alpha male love interest, something I'm not totally wild about. It can be written well but generally whenever there's a human male love interest who's entire motivation is owning the female character I nope out immediately.

The ending also does a thing I hate in smutty romances where it gets sickly sweet and has several chapters plus an epilogue (or two in the case of this book) with giant time skips so we can see the main characters get married and have kids.

If that's your thing then you'll probably really enjoy this. I did appreciate that we have a fat main character, and seeing fat characters get to have swoony romances and great sex will always make me happy.