So I loved this book. The book was acquired through the accidental push of a button on the Kindle Store, but I do not regret it! 
 Let me just preface this review by saying I'm a big girl. Except for a brief year when I was on medication that made me thin as a result of the side effects causing me to be ill all the time, I've always been heavy or overweight. I've read romance novels since I was 11, but this is the first one I've read that featured a woman whose body isn't slim, athletic, toned, skinny, etc. Don't get me wrong, I have absolutely nothing against those body types, because all body types are great(!), but it feels like the NA romance industry is flooded with only thin women. It truly never crossed my mind that there are romance novels with protagonists who are on the large side, so I never looked for the books. I'm ashamed it took me 16 years to think of it. 
 I won't sum up the book, as others have done a fine job already, so I'll just leave some thoughts I jotted down while reading these last two days: 
 Neve 
 Neve is painfully, utterly insecure because of her weight. At her heaviest she was over 300 pounds, but at the start of the book she has lost over half the weight. Rather than being proud of her new body, however, she is majorly self-conscious. She hides her body by wearing dark clothing and finds any chance to point out a flaw. It was irritating and frustrating to hear her berate herself constantly, but then I realized I do exactly the same thing about my own body, I just don't verbalize it. I like Neve, though. She's funny, intelligent, and kind, and exactly the sort of person I'd want to be friends with. 
 Max 
 Max is an absolute doll, and I was charmed by him almost immediately. Max knows he's a charmer, but he's so unlike the men in romance novels I've been reading of late (gruff, domineering, douchey) who think everything they say is prize-worthy poetry and that being rough with women is supposed to be sexy. But Max is fun, confident, caring, and extremely supportive of Neve. I almost wanted to compare him to Levi from Fangirl, but slightly older and with more hair and a cooler job (imo, of course). Most importantly, Max likes Neve as she is, and eventually she begins to forget about her weight loss goals and body issues as their relationship becomes stronger. He does have a secret vulnerability that's never entirely addressed, (though we do come to learn he is afraid to get close to people) and that was a shame because I really wanted to know him better as a character in the same way that we go to know Neve inside and out. 
 William 
 Neve is convinced William, her friend from her days at Oxford, is her soulmate and that they are destined to be together. He is the main motivator for her to lose weight. I thought William, though his letters, seemed all right in the beginning, but over time realized that he isn't a good friend; he constantly pressures Neve to seek a PhD (privileged much?) even when she tells him that she's happy with her current degree and even happier at her current job. But to William she's "wasting her talents." Fuck you, dude. 
 The only critique I have of the book is that I had to look up fashion terms and cuts for dresses multiple times because I had no idea how anything Neve wore was supposed to look. That's my own fault for being fashion illiterate, though.