I liked this book a lot. At it's heart it's about two sisters and their relationship, and coming to terms with the ways each of their first romantic relationships change their relationship with each other. That aspect of the story felt very real, and complex, and like it got a full arc without tying itself up in a way that was too neat. 
 It's also very much about queer family, and friendship. It's one of the queerest books I've read that is told from the POV of a allocishet girl. It's full of queer characters, and it felt very safe to me as a queer reader, in a way I usually only experience with some queer centered fiction. Molly has a lesbian sister who has a pansexual girlfriend, a bisexual mom and a lesbian mom. And there are a bunch of minor queer characters. 
 I liked how much we got to see Molly doing crafts, and how she got all into doing the decorations for her moms wedding. I liked that we got to see the wedding, that marriage equality was a big thing in the story for the queer characters and for her family. 
 Molly grabbed my heart. She is confused and awkward and flawed and has really big feelings that she's pretty bad at communicating. She felt real to me. She struggles a lot with being a fat girl in a world steeped in fat oppression, some of which she has deeply internalized. She also faces (and has faced her whole life) a lot of external fat oppression, and it's taken a toll on her sense of possibility and her sense of belonging. 
 In many ways, her experience as a fat teenage girl resonated deeply with my own experience of being a fat teenager who was trying to be and read as a girl (which was 25 years earlier). Her deep alienation, her feeling that it was unimaginable that anyone would want to date her, her being targeted by fat relatives with fat hatred, all of that resonated a lot. What felt different was that she had people in her life who didn't think of her in those ways. I kept being both awed and frustrated by that, because on the one hand it was awesome that her sister didn't agree with that image of Molly as unwantable, and it was also deeply frustrating that her sister didn't seem to get the ways fat oppression was sending her that message. She just kind of seemed oblivious to the fact that Molly might actually be basing some of her assumptions on reality, and that was hard to read, especially because Molly references bullying she's experienced. The text doesn't challenge this perspective of her sister's much, mostly just has Molly feeling alone and misunderstood around it. I really wanted Molly to have a fat friend, and to meet someone who was more politicized around fat oppression, to not be surrounded by thin people who didn't get it. Especially since she'd been targeted with bullying and was dealing with fat hatred from both peers and family. 
 Molly is obsessed with boys and crushes, and spends much of the book talking about the crushes she has had, and trying to sort out which boy she likes now. This is not an aspect of the story that especially resonated for me, but I really liked it. I liked that I could read about a fat girl centering her own desire, talking about what she likes and what she wants, and trying to sort that out. I liked that she got to be selfish about it sometimes, and self centered about it, and not always so nice. She got to care about herself and what she wanted, and that is incredibly rare, to find a fat girl character who gets to do that. So it felt wonderful to read. She has a romance arc, and I was all about the guy she ends up with, thought he was wonderful, and was glad she got to have that kind of happy ending, something fat girl characters rarely get. 
 She never diets, or thinks about dieting. There is no weight loss arc. The person in her family who targets her the most with fat hatred gets challenged on that, and it's textually challenged. The external fat hatred that Molly experiences in the book mostly gets challenged. I wish that she didn't only feel beautiful for the first time because of her boyfriend, even though I do recognize that as a real and common experience. Her internalized fat hatred gets challenged some in the book, both by the story itself and by the folks in her life. I wished that could be taken a bit farther, that she could have an arc of beginning to recognize her internalized fat hatred and trying to shift it, that she could have fat friends who could support her in that. Her isolation around being fat is so intense, and it was painful to read. I wanted to have hope that might shift, and I didn't leave the book with that hope. 
 I loved that Reid was fat too, and it was a thing that came up for Molly some in considering what other people might think, because that is just reality for a fat teenage heterosexual girl, but also that Reid didn't care what other people thought. He was unabashedly nerdy, was super into Molly, and just a really good candidate for a huge crush and romantic hero. If his fatness was a thing for him (and probably i was, cuz fat oppression is intense for fat teenage boys too), it wasn't shown in the story, and I liked having that balance for Molly. I wish I'd had friends like Reid when I was in high school. I liked the sexual negotiation conversation they have, and that they don't have sex; it worked for Molly and Reid in the place they were at. 
 I read this for the fat rep in particular but I wanted to make a few notes about other rep: I loved the incidental anxiety/panic disorder rep. It worked really well, and I especially appreciated that Molly grapples with being on meds and drinking alcohol. 
 I loved the Jewish rep, it worked so well for me; the grandma visit resonated particularly. I liked the fact that they are Jews who eat bacon, loved the name of the store Molly works at, and that Reid's Jewishness was meaningful to Molly. 
 I really liked the small moment where Molly describes having a crush on a trans boy. It worked very well, and gave me a swoony moment that stuck with me, and was this lovely quiet inclusion that affirmed that trans boys are boys and might be crushed on by heterosexual girls, which felt really good to me as a trans reader. 
 Note: I think this book might be a great read for fans of The Boy Book: A Study of Habits and Behaviors, Plus Techniques for Taming Them, because of its humor, Molly's strong voice, her isolation, and of course her obsession with boys. (She also has panic attacks, like Ruby Oliver, but they aren't as central to the plot.) 
 Trigger warnings: (view spoiler)[ Intense amounts of internalized fat oppression that are constantly woven into the text. Descriptions of being bullied for being fat. Depiction of being targeted by fat hatred, with two particularly intense scenes describing it, one that was quite long. Racist migroaggressions, which are challenged. Several descriptions of feeling uncomfortable with conversation about sex that the MC endures. Alcohol use. Difficulties with queer hating family member get discussed. (hide spoiler)]