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Homely Girl (2013)

by Brenda Barrett(Favorite Author)

3.52 of 5 Votes: 3

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Jamaica Treasures

review 1: I don't know what happened to the writing in this book. I truly do hate to give bad reviews, but this one just can't be helped. Let me just start off saying that I did enjoy Taj as a main character. He was the cute popular boy, but sensitive to others as people due to his mother's background so he treated everyone as equals. He didn't judge people based on outer appearances, but on behavior. April was an insecure, depressed, obese girl who was bullied at school because of her appearance. Taj befriended her when no one else did and eventually they became boyfriend and girlfriend for the last 3 years of high school because Taj loved her despite her appearance. That's what I liked.What I didn't like about the story is the heroine April first of all. I understand that sh... moree was depressed due to her home life and all, but Ms. Barrett beat us over the head with how unattractive she and everyone else besides Taj thought she was. She described her bad physical traits over and over and over again. The conversations didn't flow well and some just didn't plain make any sense. Example, there was a part in the book where her mother brought in a new boyfriend into the house and April flat out said that he looked like a grandpa and that she didn't like him, how he had shifty eyes, he was leering at her.....you get the picture. Everything just seemed to happen too fast. The only thing that was developed was Taj and April's relationship. The background for them in high school took up 70% of the book, then you have a 2 sentence breakup. ****Spoiler after this point******Afterward, BAM the new boyfriend is introduced after she eyes him in the gym, then WHAM they're getting married. She breaks up with the fiancé to salvage something with Taj, and epilogue she ends up marrying the other. It was just too much. The author shouldn't have devoted so much time to Taj and April's relationship if they weren't meant to be. I understand giving backdrop, but it was too much considering that they did not have their HEA.
review 2: I enjoyed this novel, although I can't decide which way I wanted it to end. She captured the emotions of so many of us women who had weight issues in school and have strived to lose the weight and keep it off. In addition to that the feelings of inadequacy because of weight and looks rather than personality and intelligence. While I did not get bullied in school, I definitely could relate to April. less

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