Dumplin
By
Julie Murphy
Genre:Young Adult,
Contemporary,
Romance, Fiction,
Realistic Fiction
Published September 15th, 2015 by Balzer + Bray
Hardcover is 375 pages
Self-proclaimed fat girl Willlowdean Dickson (dubbed "Dumplin'" by her former beauty queen mom) has always been at home in her own skin. Her thoughts on having the ultimate bikini body? Put a bikini on your body. With her all-American-beauty best friend, Ellen, by her side, things have always worked...until Will takes a job at Harpy's, the local fast-food joint. There she meets Private School Bo, a hot former jock. Will isn't surprised to find herself attracted to Bo. But she is surprised when he seems to like her back.
Instead of finding new heights of self-assurance in her relationship with Bo, Will starts to doubt herself. So she sets out to take back her confidence by doing the most horrifying thing she can imagine: entering the Miss Teen Blue Bonnet beauty pageant--along with several other unlikely candidates--to show the world that she deserves to be up there as much as any twiggy girl does. Along the way, she'll shock the hell out of Clover City--and maybe herself most of all.
I picked up this book solely on the cover and the title. I mean “Go Big or Go Home” with a crown and a fat girl on the front, come on, hello, it was screaming at me from the shelf, of course, I picked it up!
When I grab this book from the library I had high hopes for me to get back into reading. I had this book in my possession for several weeks before I was finally forced to read it. We had a big storm blow through that knocked out my electric for over 24hrs so what better way to pass the time, right?
I really enjoyed this book. It was funny and witty. Dumplin has some of the best quotes, almost every chapter had me highlighting a quote. Some were funny while others were very thought provoking. I love Julie Murphy's realistic writing style. I have not read Julie’s other book, Side Effects May Vary, so I’m not sure if this is her normal writing style.
"I'm fat. It's not a cuss word. It's not an insult."
"...If it's not your body, it's not yours to comment on. Fat. Skinny. Short. Tall. It doesn't matter."
"...the perfection we perceive in others is made up of a whole bunch of tiny imperfections..."
I would highly suggest you pick this up for yourself. It definitely was not your typical "and they all lived happily ever after" type book. It had a lot of ups and downs, twists, and turns. I would give this book 4/5 only because I'm mad at the ending! Like a good movie that just ends with no closure, yup, that's why I'm mad! But I'd seriously give 5 stars! It took me just a few days to read. So to me, it was a pretty quick read. There is some language in it, and some sex talk, just a heads up. I would definitely recommend it for a high school girl going through some body issues or anyone, for that matter, young or old, boy or girl. Dumplin made me think about what I thought about myself and how I perceive others and how they perceive me.
Dumplin is most definitely Bombshell approved!
Be Kind, Be Beautiful, Be You-Ashley
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