Club Shadowlands by Cherise Sinclair

 It's not like I had high hopes for this

It was just...

-clinical

-body-shaming

-->h is super in her head about her curves and stomach and LORD KNOWS I understand having hips but Jesus Christ. Mention is once. Leave it alone after. I GET insecurities. But after I get comfy with a guy, those thoughts tend to melt away. This just pissed me off until I dnf'd about 45 percent in. 

"He sure hadn’t been worth the trip. She’d have found more excitement auditing business accounts. Then again, he hadn’t appeared all that impressed with her either. She grimaced. She’d recognized the look in his eyes, the one that said he really wanted tall and slim, an Angelina Jolie type woman, no matter that her posted picture portrayed her quite accurately: a pint-size Marilyn Monroe."

STOP IT.

"A little dumpling with feet"

Please.

It's almost like Sinclair was projecting her insecurities about women that don't look like Jolie. These were but 2 instances of what I'd venture to be HUNDREDS of thoughts, references, feelings, etc. about her body. In a negative way.

There were also instances of her implying that women should be small, meek, quiet, etc. Just stfu and ugh.

Yeah

2nd DNF of July. This month is going to be rough, I feel it.