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If It Makes You Happy by Claire Kann
3.0

3.5 ~ This book had some great elements to it :
- confident fat black girl representation, while dealing with how being a fat black girl affects her in her daily life;
- brother/sister love;
- platonic love that is just as important as romance;
- learning to step away from toxic people, even if those people are family members.

Despite all this greatness, I wasn't as into this book as I'd hoped.
In all honesty I think the audiobook narrator played a big role in me not enjoying my reading time. She wasn't particularly bad, but her very monotone voice just didn't make me feel all the emotions I should have and made me zone out a few times...
I don't say this often but I'd love to go back in time and choose to not audiobook this one.

I still highly recommend this book!
After really appreciating seeing myself in Claire Kann's other book Let's Talk About Love, I know that I will find some pieces of my soul in every book she will bring out. And I can't wait to discover more.