Curvy girl, Charlene Winters, had it all: the great career, wonderful
friends and a dreamy fiancé. With her wedding day just three weeks away,
Charlene is dealt a devastating blow. Suddenly finding her life, hopes and
plans in tatters, the jilted bride sinks into despair and a tub of Ben and
Jerry’s cookie dough. With the heartache of her fiancé’s infidelity still
fresh, Charlene’s whisked away by her friends on a life-changing holiday. But
how will this big fish cope now that she’s back in the dating pond and
surrounded by slender trouts with Botox lips? Frustrated by best friend Adam
thwarting her attempts at romance, and her girls Vanessa and Dana eager to set
her up with a boy toy, Charlene decides the time for change is upon her. What
she needs is a change of scenery, a change of dress size and maybe, a change of
heart.
***Who Picked This? Book Blog was given an ARC of this book in exchange
for an honest review***
My 3 Star Review!!
Charlene
is happy; she has a great career, an amazing fiancé, and a great group of
friends. What more could she ask for? That is until Charlene’s
world is turned upside down just a few short weeks from her wedding day, when
she finds out her future husband has been cheating on her (this isn’t a spoiler
since you find it out very soon into the book). Left with her career and
her friends, Charlene is sent into a spiral trying to find who she really is
outside of her relationship. Along with the help of her best friend Adam,
Charlene realizes she changed so much from her old self when she got into her
relationship and is determined to get back to her glory days. Attempting
to diet and get back on the “playing field” Charlene takes a hilarious road
trip to happiness and eventually she finds her old self buried under all her
baggage and in turn finds the happiness she was so desperately looking for.
I
love Marie’s books. Her Bound Together series is amazing and I was
really looking forward to this book. The writing was great! I
haven’t laughed so hard during a book in a very long time. I laughed so
hard I cried a bit. Charlene and her friends are hilarious and you can
tell the author spent time thinking up these characters prior to writing the
book. Charlene did get on my nerves a little bit and I found myself
wanting to tell her what to do, but she needed to be somewhat of a doormat in
order for her to get to where she needed to be. The book did start
off a tad slow for me but, overall it was a hilarious book that I would
recommend for anyone looking to laugh themselves silly!!
~Mags
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