CURVES FOR DAYS had plenty of sweet moments, but the secret=keeping plot line of this one went on too long for me. Not only did Rose agonize over telling Angus about her lottery winnings for too long, but his reaction felt too drawn out, too, which made the third-act breakup not work for me, pacing-wise. I also was very much not into the whole subplot about "have lunch every day with the fatphobic character."

Oh my goodness, this was good. I don't read a lot of contemporary romance but something about this one made me wanna request the ARC and I'm so glad I did! Great found family vibes with grumpy sunshine love. All the feels, seriously. I mean, did i know her secrets were gonna be found out? Yes. Did I know the drama would have a HEA, also yes.
Did it bother me?
Not one bit.

Loved this one. Loved the chemistry and the side characters. Even the pearl clutching old bitty was lovable.

Will definitely read more by this author!

Thanks to Netgalley and Sourcebooks Casablanca for this ARC in exchange for an honest review.

I enjoyed this title very much. It was great to read a romance with two full figured main characters.

My heart broke learning about Rosie’s and Angus’s pasts and I just wanted to give them both big hugs and tell them how much they are loved by everyone who knows them.

If you’re into two lonely people who find themselves and each other after a lifetime of heartache, this heartwarming and sometimes spicy romance is for you.

This book was everything I needed as a plus sized woman in a relationship with a plus sized man. Grumpy x sunshine is one of my favorite tropes; the slow burn, the pining, the dual POV, everything about this was so, so right. The representation for military trauma and suicide and the lack of funding felt really important to me, and I was so glad to see it done tastefully; this is an important conversation that needs to be had, and it was very emotional and well done. I finished this book in one night, and I would do it all over again. The ending had me squealing. I look forward to reading about July’s story as I see it is already listed on Goodreads. Full review to come on my blog.

The relationship between Rosie and Angus was so sweet in this book. I loved how you got to watch their relationship grow throughout the book, plus the banter was amazing. The best part about this book was the duel pov! I think my least favorite part of this book was the lottery plot (complaining about 80 million dollars is not the most retable). But overall, this is such a great romance read with amazing characters!

A debut novel that shows great promise but doesn’t knock it out of the ball park. This book deserves praise for its plus size representation, including the cover. It is hard to hear some of the negative thoughts of Rose in the beginning of the book but that changes as she gains confidence throughout the story. Rose Barnes is curvy and kind. She shows up in the small town of Galway, NC looking for a town where she will fit. Befriending by the owner of the B&B and the diner she decides to make the town home.

Enter Angus, a therapist who does construction on the side. He has PTSD and loves working with VETs. Once Rose hires him to remodel her house he is smitten. He doesn’t push and takes things at her pace. He is protective of her in almost a too much way. They both have issues from their past that impact their self worth. This is an open door book but in the low to moderate range as every action isn’t described.

This book touches on some harder topics and trigger warnings include: body shaming, bullying, mentions of date rape, sexual assault, death, and thoughts of suicide.

Overall I enjoyed the story even though I was very frustrated with Angus and his walking away moment when he realizes everything is not how he thinks. He is a therapist and should be able to use words and act better. I would like to read the next in the series. Thank you to NetGalley and Sourcebooks Casablanca for the ARC and I am leaving a voluntary review. (3.5 Stars)

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What would you do if you won 80 million dollars? This book answers that question and more. Rose wins 80 million and finds herself in a small Southern town. There love and sexy Angus catches her. This is a quick and enchanting read. The sexiness is handled in a genteel way.

I liked this way better than I thought I would when I first started it. This was such a cute uplifting fast paced book. I could relate to rose a lot.

Read if you like,
- small town
- plus size fmc
- found family
- friends to lovers
- relatable characters

I look forward to be reading more from this author.

3/5 ⭐
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This book was what I imagine a sweet romance is, but with spice. It was almost sickly sweet at times and had this southern charm about it. I enjoyed it for what it was, but it's not something I'd run to pick up again. But if you're looking for Hallmark with spice, this is probably a great book for you.

I did love that Rosie was plus sized and that Laura pointed out so many shortcomings us plus size women have... Booths that are too skinny, shops that only carry up to size 16 yet tout they're plus sized friendly, and the general consensus that you'll never be enough. I loved that while she had some trouble with this as a teen like most of us do, she loved her body and stood up for it as an adult. I just loved her confidence.

To be honest, I really hated the third act... Third act breakups are already not my thing, but the way these two otherwise respectable and grounded adults handled this conflict was really immature and hard to handle... I was glad it didn't take long once they decided to talk, but I rolled my eyes a bit during, especially at Angus.

I'd probably recommend reading this one if you generally prefer that. While I loved Michelle Price, Paul Bellantoni left a lot to be desired for me. I actually preferred Michelle's version of Angus over Paul's, I just couldn't stop seeing an old southern gpa as Rosie's love interest. That being said, I did finish the audio and didn't jump to the book, so it wasn't awful, just not amazing.

This is a very cute and quick read. I kind of wished the characters were given a little more dimension. I feel like the author added a bunch of things that the characters have endured, but they didn’t really delve into it. I connected with the main character, but angus was more my best friends type than mine 😂

A great read. Rose moves in to town after leaving her home behind after a lottery win. Anonymous in her new home she starts to make real friends and also meets contractor Angus. Will she give love a chance? I liked how it is told from both points of view. Looking forward to more books from this author.

This is a feel-good, sweet yet steamy, small town romance. Rose has won $80 million dollars in the lottery and flees the only city/home she’s ever known in a chance to escape the notoriety her millions have thrust upon her life. She lands in a small mountain town of North Carolina after getting stuck on a snowy road and assisted by an enormous bearded lumbersexual. After throwing and hitting in the face with a ‘thank you Snickers’ (still laughing at this scene) she settles into a quaint bed and breakfast for several weeks to ‘make a new life plan.’ After a few weeks of making friendships with locals and sensing a strong connection to the community, Rose decides to plant roots by buying her first home in this town. She finds the perfect place but it needs renovations, and hew new contractor is none other than her giant former snowy savior, Angus.

Y’all. Two lonely mid-30’s adults falling in love was a balm I didn’t know my heart needed. Watching them learn each other through the forced proximity of the renovations was fun, sexy, and heart-warming. Their mutual attraction and connection was so earnest and genuine. Angus is a divorced vet who helps local vets with PTSD as a part-time counselor, and Rosie is a plus-sized women who has been bullied into thinking she doesn’t deserve love and sexual attraction. She lightens Angus’ world, giving him hope for domesticity and he lovingly shows Rosie how desirable and worthy she is of love and commitment. There is defined a third act drama over Rosie keeping her lottery winnings a secret/miscommunication, but based on how the money negatively affected her life it is understandable. I don’t think I’ve ever rooted hoarded for a couple to reach their HEA than this book. I adored the found family, small-town community, and emphasis on body positivity and community support.

Thank you to NetGalley and Sourcebooks Casablanca for this e-arc in exchange for my review.
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I received a DIGITAL Advance Reader Copy of this book from #NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

I don't really have much to say about this book other than I really enjoyed it. I loved Rose, she is a fantastic main character. I was also a big fan of the fact that the relationship between her and Angus felt real. It had a build up and they were together for a little while, it wasn't just instant love after like a week.

I highly recommend this book, it was a very light and easy read.

Okay, I loved this!! A slow-burn romance with two plus-size characters, small town vibes, and really wonderful people trying to make the world a better place. This also does a great job of weaving in real issues like PTSD with former military and the dearth of mental health resources available to them. And there is conflict that feels realistic, but with characters who grow enough to recognize their own hangups and work to move past them.

I really enjoyed Curves for Days.

I tend to see when a FMC is plus size that it is constantly thrown in your face and like almost like that is all that matters. Plus size peoples are the same as any other people and you don’t constantly point out a thin person is thin throughout the book so i tend to have negative feelings toward that. The author DID NOT do this. You knew rose was plus size, but it wasn’t her identity.

The author truly did an outstanding job at making Rose relatable and someone you wanted to root for. I absolutely adored her as a character and didn’t want it to end.

Our MMC was a big cinnamon roll teddy bear and i truly loved his support for rose in all things. The way he had a true willingness to go at her pace and not pressure her and the constant support he gave her was admirable.

Definitely check the trigger warnings before diving into this book - while it is a sweet romance and coming of age book it also deals with some heavy topics of fat shaming and sexual assault.

I would definitely read more by this author!

What's this? A straight romance that I liked? I would even say that I loved? Who is she and where did she come from because hot damn this was so good.

I requested this book on netgalley for the simple fact of the visibly fat character on the cover. I love it and she is gorgeous. What I wasn't ready for was a fully fledged thought out romance book with a fat main character and a hot hunky contractor to steal my heart.

Look I genuinely love this. So many times with romance books you end up finishing the book right as the characters are getting into a relationship. That's not the case with this one and it was so refreshing. They actually get together pre 50% and are a couple for a large majority of this book. So we get to see everything from their first meeting to their second meeting to their third meeting to them becoming friends and going on dates and then dating and then having a relationship and then having arguments and making up and everything.

It was so thorough and I want all romance books to be like this.

I will say that the miscommunication and the third act break up was incredibly predictable and could have easily been avoided but I didn't hate it. I didn't love the way that they made up and I wish there had been a little bit more conversation about toxic masculinity and how to combat that and have a healthy relationship but it is touched upon just not as much as I would have liked.

I will most certainly be reading this author's future books and keeping my fingers crossed for more fat people on covers 🤞

4.5 (only bc I wanted a ✨little✨ more than the third act break up gave)

I absolutely devoured this book in a day! Could not put it down!
Curves for Days was the most sweetest, cosiest, funniest book. I was grinning like a fool for most of it.

Rose has always felt alone, invisible, unwanted. That is, until she wins the lottery, and suddenly all the worms come out of the woodwork. All the people who made her life miserable in school now want to reconnect and Rose is scared enough that she skips town, with no destination in mind. After being rescued by a grumpy giant, she finds herself in a small town where no-one knows of her wealth, and nor do most of them seem to judge her based on her appearance. Rose falls in love with the town and soon finds herself working closely with Angus (the grumpy giant) as he remodels her new house.

This story is a great enemies to lovers, grumpy sunshine, romantic comedy that is the perfect feel-good read in between heavy fantasy. The body positivity and just all-around good people will have you smiling for ages!

Thank you Netgalley and Publisher for the advance readers copy in exchange for an honest review.


It's safe to say that I didn't like or enjoy this book.
The romance felt cheesy and cringy at times. The 3rd act was infuriating.

Sorry but this book wasn't for me.

Thank you to netgalley and Sourcebooks publishing for this e-arc.

This was a sweet and cute read with a little bit of spice thrown in. I loved the mental health rep in this book specially dealing with military veterans. I also loved the journey of growth for the mfc. Even though I did enjoy this book, there was something missing for me overall.

I'm struggling with this review because there definitely were things I liked. I loved her. She was a doll of a human with a glorious heart. I hated that people hurt her and let her down so often. I hated the way she talked about herself to herself like she was less than. I adored the small scale interactions she had throughout the book where she was fairy godmothering cash into purses at the supermarket, making sure kids had food and books, setting up jobs for desperate people out of work. If anyone needed to win the lottery, it was her.

I'm undecided on Angus. I didn't like how flippant he was in discussing a prior assualt in his head. After Rose and Angus have sex for the first time and some other things happen, he spirals and calls himself potentially "the second-worst sex partner in the world."

The problem for me was that he exclusively calls Timmy (the perpetrator of a dishonest, borderline rape according to her, definitely a rape according to Angus) a rapist throughout the entire book so he knows that these are not the same at all. Let's not equate a very wanted, enthusiastic sexual experience and what happened to her in high school. Something about that part of the book has been rattling around my head for a week and I don't like it. I may not be explaining that well but it felt thoughtless.

Thank you to Netgalley for a copy in exchange for an honest review.