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Where I Belong by Gwendolyn Heasley
1.0

I really disliked this. Corrinne was whiny, snobby, snotty, and shallow. Her shitty attitude was so obnoxious. I kept waiting for her to stop being such a shallow little witch, and when it finally happens like 60 pages from the end, it seems to happen out of the blue and for me it was too little, too late.

It was like a really crappy Hallmark movie.

There was also a huge emphasis on body shaming in this book that I really had a problem with. Corrinne says that she is a size 4 at the very beginning of the book. Later, she talks about how she is ‘fatter’ than her mom...I’m sorry, but someone who is a size 4 talking about how fat she is disgusts me. And all through the book, there is so much conversation about fattening food and carbs and all that garbage. I was so over it.

The cover would suggest that this is a cutesy southern romance. The cover lies. There is zero real romance in this book, because Corrinne has terrible fucking judgement.

I also thought the ending of this book was so lazy and implausible.

I honestly don’t know what the point of this book was. There is no plot to speak of. I expected it to be one of those coming of age stories where the spoiled rich kid finds themselves out of their comfort zone and learns what is truly important in life...and I guess that’s what it was, but I’ve seen it done much more subtly in other books.

None of the characters have any sort of depth to them. My favorite was probably her friend Kitsy, and we don’t really get to know much about her.

That’s the real problem with this book, in my opinion. We don’t really get to know the supporting characters in this story because it’s told in Corrinne’s POV and she’s too selfish to actually spend any of her energy thinking about other people. It’s all about how everything affects her.

This review is a little ranty and rambling but I am just so annoyed by this book.