In this novel, we follow the life of teenager Charlie Vega while she struggles to appreciate her own body, a conflictual relationship with her mother, her first crushes, rejection, and feeling loved for the first time: but will she be able to overcome her insecurities and accept the fact that yes, she too deserves to be loved?
I am not the biggest fan of romance books, as I usually find them heavily predictable and reliant on clichés.
 However, I highly recommend Fat Chance, Charlie Vega if you are looking for a feel-good YA romance with yes some classic romance clichés, but also some serious insight into the life and thoughts of a fat teen going through her first crushes and relationship. In addition to the fact that the main protagonist is fat, I particularly enjoyed the representation of the mother-daughter relationship: how to reconcile feelings towards a parent who is full of love but at the same time has some problematic and toxic behaviors resulting from her/his traumas in life?
The writing is simple, and even if various themes are addressed (being fat in modern society, first love, personal insecurities, grief, parental toxicity) it does not become an emotionally hard reading and manages to keep the lightness of a YA while also serving serious reflections.

I can finally say that I enjoyed a romance YA novel.