Ratings411
Average rating3.8
I've seen criticism of the women representation in this book, personally I found this book to be no worse in its representation of women than a lot of books I've read that were written by women so I did not take particular exception to that. Are the characters somewhat flat? Yes. Is that something I would expect from that type of narration? Also yes.
The white woman main character ends up leaving the heavy lifting at the end to the black woman and the fattie (the character is never actually described as fat as far as I can remember but it's implied that she is heavyset) even though it was not that she wanted to leave it to them that seemed pretty realistic to me.
There were definitely moments where I was afraid this book would take a turn for the white saviorism but when it did it turned around and bit the character in the proverbial ass.
It also doesn't end with our “heroine” going back to her status quo so but with her divorcing the jerk so there's also that part which was satisfying.
Long story short, I enjoyed it well enough even though it was a little too lengthy for my tastes.