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Beschreibung
Winnie is living her best fat girl life and is on her way to the best place on earth. No, not Disneyland--her Granny’s diner, Goldeen’s, in the small town of Misty Haven. While there, she works in her fabulous 50’s inspired uniform, twirling around the diner floor and earning an obscene amount of tips. With her family and ungirlfriend at her side, she has everything she needs for one last perfect summer before starting college in the fall.
…until she becomes Misty Haven’s Summer Queen in a highly anticipated matchmaking tradition that she wants absolutely nothing to do with.
Newly crowned, Winnie is forced to take center stage in photoshoots and a never-ending list of community royal engagements. Almost immediately, she discovers that she’s deathly afraid of it all: the spotlight, the obligations, and the way her Merry Haven Summer King, wears his heart, humor, and honesty on his sleeve.
Stripped of Goldeen’s protective bubble, to salvage her summer Winnie must conquer her fears, defy expectations, and be the best Winnie she knows she can be―regardless of what anyone else thinks of her.
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I think this book is the first one I ever read that includes a depiction of a queer-platonic relationship and I loved it. Having this kind of representation and having in general a depicition of an understanding of relationships that doesn't value some more than others (e. g. romantic relationships more than friendships) was incredibly wholesome for me as an aromantic person. Especially since this book deals with different kinds of relations a lot, focusing on arising conflicts and challenges, new developments, showing how you can care a lot for different people in different ways without having to favor one single person. Winnie is a great protagonist, having flaws but also so many strengths and lovable characteristics, caring so much about others but also trying to stand up for herself. Her inner conflicts, her growth, and her unapologetic acceptance for who she is and what she wants as well as her insecurities, wants, and struggles take up most of the space of this book in a good way. I really liked how important communication and consent are to her, how she knows who she is, and how she cares. I just sometimes wished that she would be more angry or hurt because sometimes, she had every right to be. People are not perfect and unhealthy and hurtful behavior is one of the main topics and while it made me want to scream at certain characters, this story also discusses a lot how people should treat those they love, what can be apologized and where boundaries should be drawn. I have to admit that I was a bit sad to realize that Kara, the girl Winnie has a queer-platonic relationship with, is one of the characters I sometimes want to scream at (and who is definetly not my favorite character of the story) but then again I also found her reasons to be important struggles in this constellation and I actually liked that this story discusses them. It doesn't make her behavior easily forgivable but I nevertheless found it to be based upon realistic fears and flaws and I only wished that these would have been addressed a bit more in the end, also in terms of how to overcome them. The romance was quite cute. Apart from that, I loved the relationship between Winnie and her brother (maybe my favorite character of this book) and it was great that this one received quite some attention. I was a bit annoyed by her cousin Sam and I couldn't really grasp her until the end which was a bit sad. In general, I felt like most of the characters apart from Winnie could have been developed a bit more - you don't even really learn a lot about Kara. Winnie is a queer, Black, fat girl and it was great to have this representation that I have honestly barely seen so far (which maybe also says something about the books I chose). Migroaggressions around being Black, fat and in a non-normative relationship are addressed in several ways, adding to the depth of this story. Kara is also implied to be aromantic-asexual so yay, aspec representation. Overall, it was a fun and easy read with many wholesome moments, some where I wanted to scream at characters, and actually interesting conflicts. Just be aware that there are unfortunately some Harry Potter references.
Beschreibung
Winnie is living her best fat girl life and is on her way to the best place on earth. No, not Disneyland--her Granny’s diner, Goldeen’s, in the small town of Misty Haven. While there, she works in her fabulous 50’s inspired uniform, twirling around the diner floor and earning an obscene amount of tips. With her family and ungirlfriend at her side, she has everything she needs for one last perfect summer before starting college in the fall.
…until she becomes Misty Haven’s Summer Queen in a highly anticipated matchmaking tradition that she wants absolutely nothing to do with.
Newly crowned, Winnie is forced to take center stage in photoshoots and a never-ending list of community royal engagements. Almost immediately, she discovers that she’s deathly afraid of it all: the spotlight, the obligations, and the way her Merry Haven Summer King, wears his heart, humor, and honesty on his sleeve.
Stripped of Goldeen’s protective bubble, to salvage her summer Winnie must conquer her fears, defy expectations, and be the best Winnie she knows she can be―regardless of what anyone else thinks of her.
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I think this book is the first one I ever read that includes a depiction of a queer-platonic relationship and I loved it. Having this kind of representation and having in general a depicition of an understanding of relationships that doesn't value some more than others (e. g. romantic relationships more than friendships) was incredibly wholesome for me as an aromantic person. Especially since this book deals with different kinds of relations a lot, focusing on arising conflicts and challenges, new developments, showing how you can care a lot for different people in different ways without having to favor one single person. Winnie is a great protagonist, having flaws but also so many strengths and lovable characteristics, caring so much about others but also trying to stand up for herself. Her inner conflicts, her growth, and her unapologetic acceptance for who she is and what she wants as well as her insecurities, wants, and struggles take up most of the space of this book in a good way. I really liked how important communication and consent are to her, how she knows who she is, and how she cares. I just sometimes wished that she would be more angry or hurt because sometimes, she had every right to be. People are not perfect and unhealthy and hurtful behavior is one of the main topics and while it made me want to scream at certain characters, this story also discusses a lot how people should treat those they love, what can be apologized and where boundaries should be drawn. I have to admit that I was a bit sad to realize that Kara, the girl Winnie has a queer-platonic relationship with, is one of the characters I sometimes want to scream at (and who is definetly not my favorite character of the story) but then again I also found her reasons to be important struggles in this constellation and I actually liked that this story discusses them. It doesn't make her behavior easily forgivable but I nevertheless found it to be based upon realistic fears and flaws and I only wished that these would have been addressed a bit more in the end, also in terms of how to overcome them. The romance was quite cute. Apart from that, I loved the relationship between Winnie and her brother (maybe my favorite character of this book) and it was great that this one received quite some attention. I was a bit annoyed by her cousin Sam and I couldn't really grasp her until the end which was a bit sad. In general, I felt like most of the characters apart from Winnie could have been developed a bit more - you don't even really learn a lot about Kara. Winnie is a queer, Black, fat girl and it was great to have this representation that I have honestly barely seen so far (which maybe also says something about the books I chose). Migroaggressions around being Black, fat and in a non-normative relationship are addressed in several ways, adding to the depth of this story. Kara is also implied to be aromantic-asexual so yay, aspec representation. Overall, it was a fun and easy read with many wholesome moments, some where I wanted to scream at characters, and actually interesting conflicts. Just be aware that there are unfortunately some Harry Potter references.