Week 17 Review: Fat Girl on a Plane

From Goodreads:

Fat.

High school senior Cookie Vonn's post-graduation dreams include getting out of Phoenix, attending Parsons and becoming the next great fashion designer. But in the world of fashion, being fat is a cardinal sin. It doesn't help that she's constantly compared to her supermodel mother—and named after a dessert.

Thanks to her job at a fashion blog, Cookie scores a trip to New York to pitch her portfolio and appeal for a scholarship, but her plans are put on standby when she's declared too fat to fly. Forced to turn to her BFF for cash, Cookie buys a second seat on the plane. She arrives in the city to find that she's been replaced by the boss's daughter, a girl who's everything she's not—ultrathin and superrich. Bowing to society's pressure, she vows to lose weight, get out of the friend zone with her crush, and put her life on track.

Skinny.

Cookie expected sunshine and rainbows, but nothing about her new life is turning out like she planned. When the fashion designer of the moment offers her what she's always wanted—an opportunity to live and study in New York—she finds herself in a world full of people more interested in putting women down than dressing them up. Her designs make waves, but her real dream of creating great clothes for people of all sizes seems to grow more distant by the day.

Will she realize that she's always had the power to make her own dreams come true?

My Review:
I really enjoyed reading this book! I've really enjoyed Kelly deVos's other books, and this story about a teenager's self image and problems with weight for herself and those that she interacts with, yeah, I had to pick it, considering how much I could relate to that! 

It is honestly hard to weigh more then is considered healthy, something that I've struggled with for most of my life, basically since I became aware of it. So it was a bittersweet hurt to watch Cookie go on this journey, because the non-physical issues you had before you lost the weight, there's still going to be there when you lose it, you have to work on yourself as well to be happy in your own skin.

That Cookie put in all this effort to lose the weight and get skinny, and then her life isn't what she wanted, I just wanted to give her a hug, That she wants to get into the fashion world, that's about the worst place to be for self-confidence.

I loved the dual time line of Cookie before and after the weight loss. We got to see why she did it, but we also got to see what thing s were like afterwards. I really enjoyed her going on this journey, and finding a way to get what she wants and be happy.

This was an amazing read and I can't wait to read more by Kelly deVos! 

Author: Kelly deVos
Read: April 23rd, 2024
Source: NetGalley 
Reason Why: Love her writing and it sounded really great, and it's a DAC Book and a SAC 2024 Book!
Publisher: Harlequin Teen
Published: June 5th 2018

5/5 Hearts

5/5 Books

5/5 Stars