Book Title: Curvy Girls Can't Date Soldiers
Author: Kelsie Stelting
Series: The Curvy Girl Club, Book 8
Published: July 31st, 2021
Synopsis:
He’s in love with me. The only problem? He thinks I’m someone else.
I’ve spent my whole life trying not to get bullied. For my frizzy hair. My freckles. The white patches on my black skin or the gap in my teeth. Not to mention the extra hundred pounds I have on most of my classmates.
So when my soldier pen pal wants to see a picture of me, I freak. I send him a picture of one of the it girls at school and move on. The odds of us meeting in person are less than zero, and for once in my life, I want to know what it feels like to be one of the beautiful girls. Someone a guy like him would be into.
And it is amazing... Until I start to feel more about him than just a pen pal should. He says he feels the same way, but when he wants to meet me, I have a huge problem.
How can I put my heart on the line when I can’t even show my face?
3.5 Lovely Stars!
I love everything that Kelsie writes. She is able to draw such strong emotions out of readers and I love it. I love that she dealt with certain conflicts with Nadira. She is smart but she is not confident. She deals with many insecurities, like living with vitiligo and self-doubting herself a lot. I liked how Kelsie didn’t sugar coat anything and let us see how someone with vitiligo would experience and feel.
However, I knew from the moment I read the blurb of this book, I knew I would have a hard time reading their story. Nadira becomes pen pal with Apollo, an army men at college. Apollo shares a photo of himself, and what does insecure Nadira do? She sends a picture of some other girl at her school, pretty, skinny, picture-perfect. This had me cringing on the inside, knowing full on she was okay with talking with someone and lying to their face of how she looked like. True she didn’t pretend to be anyone but herself but it was so hard to see her talking and knowing Apollo was being lied to.
Nevertheless, I did like how it ended. It was so sweet and loving. I also liked how it wasn’t insta-forgiveness when the truth was told. I like how they dealt with it in a timely matter and it made it look realistic.
I guess I do see why this story was written. It’s true, as humans we do silly things that we will regret later, so it’s true that sometimes things does turn ugly. But it is nice to know there are family and friends who care and support you and pick you up when things gets messy.
In the end, it was an enjoyable book, learnt a lot throughout this journey and am looking forward to reading the last two books of this series!
Received a copy from the author herself for an honest review and this does not affect my review or rating of the book thank you!
Happy reading friends!
~ Karen
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