This is my first book from this author and I don’t think I’ll be reading anymore. The cover is stunning but the writing style wasn’t for me. It was unnecessarily wordy and the dialogue didn’t feel natural. I did love the plus sized protagonist and that she was confident in her body but her size wasn’t constantly mentioned. The depression representation was done well but it felt too deep and dark for too long to be a romance. I enjoyed the start but then it starts to drag and nothing much happens.

As for the characters I liked the side characters but I hated both Athena and Matthew. They were both so immature considering they are late 30s. I cannot wrap my head around him becoming obsessed with her after talking for 15mins at her engagement party to his brother. Add that to her flirting at her own engagement party. I just don’t understand why she got engaged. None of her reasoning made sense. Ignoring the whole ruining your brothers engagement only to steal his fiancee for yourself, Matthew was okay to start with but he soon became so needy. Also questioning if he lived under a rock because he doesn’t know anything about memes, famous characters, or songs.  

I don’t think I have ever cringed as much as I did reading this book. Professor Google was funny to start with but it was so overused. The Monster erotica was bad and then we got the chicken man. The sex scenes also made me cringe. The bath scene started cute and then Matthew ruined it. By the end, I was team Johnny. 

I received a copy via NetGalley