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Dumplin' by Julie Murphy
3.0

This was a fun one day read — I’ve heard great things about the Netflix movie and wanted to start with the book first (as always). It didn’t completely win me over, but I did appreciate the main character being a self-proclaimed “fat girl” (so not the norm!) who is real about body image and teenage drama and dating, although I did want more from the mother/daughter/aunt dynamics and wished for a liiiiittle more character development overall. There were a lot of characters and I think it made the story a little less strong, but I’m also anticipating it playing really well as a movie, so we’ll see! It felt a little anti-climactic and slow overall... but maybe I’m overthinking things?