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Skinny Bitch in Love

Kim Barnouin

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Firstly I must say that this was a Goodreads First-Reads Winner! Thank you very much to Kim Barnouin & Simon and Schuster Canada for letting me read this book!

While reading this book I constantly thought to myself how similar this is to various television shows. Should you read it you will understand, for now please forgive the few references!

I must say that if you are a not a female or perhaps a slightly effeminate male please steer clear. This clearly is meant to be directed towards a female a Firstly I must say that this was a Goodreads First-Reads Winner! Thank you very much to Kim Barnouin & Simon and Schuster Canada for letting me read this book!

While reading this book I constantly thought to myself how similar this is to various television shows. Should you read it you will understand, for now please forgive the few references!

I must say that if you are a not a female or perhaps a slightly effeminate male please steer clear. This clearly is meant to be directed towards a female audience... think chick-flic.. bad almost Friends like sitcom.. There you go. That's what I personally kept getting out of this. The one upside that perhaps is interesting is the author's ability to make vegan food sound very appealing.

The book itself is extremely dialogue driven. The scenes usually consist of a cooking class where this is a 90% female sounding board for relationship advice and scheming (think desperate housewives), a kitchen, or some random romantic spot. One concern I had was with the main character's slightly odd internal monologue. This appears quite consistently and I really thought that it wasn't always necessary. Example: He kissed her "said something sweet with sexual innuendo" inner monologue of 'oh yeah rip my clothes off.' of course please take this as a very broad example, but in my opinion not necessary and doesn't need to be repeated. Honestly I found that most of the situations throughout the book were repetitive at times and not overly inspired. Most resulted in a lot of speculation and "bitching" before resolving quickly and uneventfully. Most settings/scenes have more dialogue then description unless it should come to the food. I think if an equal amount of time was put into other descriptions, as the rants about the food dishes were, it might make for a bit more of an in-depth read. There are more dialogue (by conversation, or text message)type crisis vs environment event driven type crisis and these consisted mainly of the character happening upon something randomly in the street. Another thing I didn't quite get was the love triangle. The main character's need to not only want to screw the "super hot zillionaire" but then try to maintain a "friendship" with this other guy she didn't like but couldn't seem to get over, it just didn't make sense. Cliche's of gay friends, quirky roommates, relationships and much more abound.

I do understand the audience that this type of book would appeal to but sadly it just didn't include me. If you are a female and love savory descriptions of food with a constantly flipping love interest plot and tons of dialogue then I think you will enjoy this. This is not a place to look for an in-depth read. I will give it a 3 stars just because it did make me smirk the odd time and the food descriptions made me almost consider switching from meat..almost. The story, just not there for me. Perhaps the other ones in this series are better?

Thank you again to Simon and Schuster Canada and Kim Barnouin for giving me the chance to read this. It's always a pleasure to be able to sink my teeth into a new book! I think I will pass it on to perhaps get a female perspective on it. ...more

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