Not much a romance novel, more a treatise on weight, body image, and dieting. And how you feel about this book may depend on how you feel about those issues. I personally find them extremely boring, and I felt like there was just TOO much of that in this book (but then, the book would be a whole lot better for going on a diet too - losing about 150 pages of flab would make it so much better). Also, for this reader, it was just too grating knowing that Neve really wasn't as fat as she thought it was, and basically knowing what was going to happen to her - she was just too oblivious. Max wasn't swoon-worthy at all, and a bit of a douche in places (but I guess he was supposed to be).