Fat Girl

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This is the first book I have read from this author and wow she blew me away. I love a good rom com but this book exceeded all my expectations. This is the first book of the Rehoboth series and this was the perfect beginning to a series. I could not put this book down. These characters kept me up at all hours of the night. It only took me a little over a day to devour this amazing story.

Claire Sterling has always had problems with her weight. She thought that she found her one but now she is signing her divorce papers and what makes it worse she is almost forty. Claire is tired of being known as the fat girl. She reaches out to her best friend for some help. He takes her under his wing to get her more healthy. Claire tries to put herself out there with a dating app but all she keeps getting are toads not her Prince Charming. She is almost feeling hopeless when she gets a message that changes her life. Will Claire find her happily ever after or will she just end up being the fat girl once again?

I absolutely loved this book. The storyline has it all romance, humor, struggles, and healing. You will fall in love with all of the characters. Claire is a great mom and has some spunk. She doesn’t let anyone try to bring her down. This character is very inspirational to me. I’m also a mom that has gained some weight and now I know that I’m not alone. She made me feel better about myself. This talented author made me laugh and cry throughout Claire’s journey. I can’t wait to read the next book in this series.

I give Fat Girl by KL Montgomery, 5 stars.

Claire is somewhere she never thought she’d be — divorced, starting over, and living with her parents again. Not to mention 40 is so close now. She feels hopeless. Plus the fact that she has always been the fat girl. Is her life over or can she find happiness again? Can she find a career she loves and maybe another chance at love?

This book is amazing! You will laugh. You will cry. You understand just what Claire is going though and how she feels. This felt just like a biography, I had to keep reminding myself that this is fiction. That’s hoe real Claire is. But really, it’s so inspiring. I admit, I picked up this book because I live near Rehoboth. But I was so blown away by this story, I almost cried. And I don’t cry over books!!!!

Fun, sweet, romantic, heart-wrenching, this book has it all. And you will love it!

Fat Girl is the first book in the Romance in Rehobeth series by K.L. Montgomery. It is a contemporary romance novel. The story is about a 39 year old woman named Claire, and she writes a blog on the internet. Claire recently separated from her soon to be ex-husband, Jeremy. Claire has a teenaged son, who is in high school and his name is Elliott. Elliott lives in Lewes, Delaware with his mom, in his grandparents home, while Claire saves money to buy a house for the two of them in the Rehobeth Beach area. Elliott visits his father, who still lives in Silver Spring, Maryland, in the home that Elliott grew up in, one or two weekends a month. Claire found out that her husband was cheating on her when she found a phone in Jeremy’s gym bag, while she was looking for his dirty clothes to put into the wash. When Claire confronted Jeremy about the fact that he was cheating on her, he didn’t even try to deny it. Jeremy was cheating with a young woman who belonged to the same gym that Jeremy and Claire belonged to, and she was much younger than him. Claire had wanted to try to save their marriage, but Jeremy told her that he would plan to still see his mistress, so Claire thought it best to end their marriage, since he clearly didn’t love her any more, since he wanted to keep seeing this woman. Claire felt that maybe Jeremy wouldn’t have started the affair if she wasn’t fat. Claire was now seeing a therapist several times a week, Dr. Dawn, whose office was close to her parents’ home in Lewes, to help her to learn to deal with the end of her marriage and with other problems.

Claire had been fat since she was at least nine years old, and she had been teased and bullied a lot in her childhood because of it. Even her mother, who was tall and thin, like Claire’s younger sister, Emma, gave her a hard time about her weight. These things caused Claire to start an unhealthy habit to lose weight starting when she was a teenager. Claire would hardly eat anything and then exercise like crazy. Sometimes she felt really weak and light-headed because of it, but she would try to ignore that, and carry on with her plan to lose weight. Even though her plan for losing weight was obviously unhealthy, Claire’s mom had to have noticed since Claire was not eating many meals when she was home, but her mother said nothing to Claire about her unhealthy eating and exercising routine. Now that she is living back in Lewe’s, Claire’s best friend, Jean-Marc Tasse, has helped her a lot, too. She could always go to his house to vent or laugh at whatever was bothering her, and he was the first person that she told about the offer that she has gotten to write a column for a famous newspaper in New York.

Claire felt that she was ready to date again, but because she was a writer and she could stay at home to work, she didn’t have the opportunity to meet men. Jean-Marc told her about a dating site, that he uses, and Claire decided to try it out. The first man that she meets from the site is a man named Jack. Jack teaches music at a private school called the Delmarva Academy, he’s 35 years old, divorced, and he has a 3 year old daughter who lives in Texas with her mother. Claire sees Jack about once a week because they feel comfortable getting to know each other and they become friends, but Claire is starting to feel attracted romantically towards him, too. She feels that Jack probably isn’t attracted to her physically because of her weight. Will Claire get the chance to become romantically involved with Jack? Will she begin to deal with her body image issues?

I really enjoyed this book by K.L. Montgomery. I’ve had body image issues my whole life, and was bullied about my weight a lot by my sister, neighborhood kids, and adults. I even dieted in an unhealthy manner during my senior year of high school, losing almost 40 pounds in 3 months. I enjoyed how the author dealt with Claire’s weight issues since I can definitely relate. I believe that this is a wonderful romance novel that everyone would love, and even though it is the first book in the series, it is definitely a stand-alone novel.

Fat Girl (Romance in Rehoboth #1)
By K.L. Montgomery
Rated 3 stars

This story is mostly narrative which i am not a fan. I am more of a dialogue reader. There were many many thoughts and I tended to get a bit bored. Not only with the inner thoughts but the constant image and body iMage issues. I guess I was looking for something different out of this story (the Jack and Claire story). I have read the others in the series and Claire and her beau make appearances in them. They seem so outgoing and such that I wanted to read their story. Sadly it wasn’t what i was looking for from them. They are so serious, seemingly quiet and most of the time I thought they were only friends in Fat Girl.

The storyline was ok. I just wish there was more romance specifically Jack and Claire. I did enjoy her dating situations they made me smile a few times.

This is not the first book I have read by this author. I have enjoyed the other Romance in Rehoboth stories and look forward to more.

Sorry this book just fell flat for me.

Fat Girl was an interesting book. It was a good story about a woman starting over and falling in love again, with her self and a man. I understand that the book was about self-image and fat shaming, but it was kind of hard to read because of the consent and never-ending criticizing of her body. I feel like there should have been more story and depth in the story. It all worked out in the end but still something to think about. I enjoyed the characters immensely.

A great read about trying again. Claire Sterling has moved back to her parents house after separating from her cheating husband. As her 39th birthday approaches, she struggles with finding her feet in a new chapter of her life. Whilst doing this, she tries new things such as a dating site and a new job while struggling with her weight. Will she take these new changes in her stride or will fear of always being judged by her size rule her heart?
A great read. Well developed plot. Well developed characters like Claire trying new things despite her fears or Jean Marc standing up for himself whilst also being a supportive friend. A great depiction of life as a plus size woman that was relatable and made you sympathise with her. I also liked the use of dates in the chapter titles so you could see Claire’s progress of reinventing herself over time. The use of flashbacks worked well as Claire struggles with focusing on the present but also remembering the past. I loved the sense of living life to the full in particular the party scenes full of colour and visual detail. or the use of the sense throughout the novel like sounds and smells of food and cooking adding to the family feel of the novel. The only issue I would raise is that the sentences were sometimes too long and hard to read but this could be resolved with a variety of sentence lengths. Overall, a fun read and I would give it five stars.

Besides the Autumn poets sing
A few prosaic days
A little this side of the snow
And that side of the Haze…
Grant me, Oh Lord, a sunny mind-
Thy windy will to bear!
~Emily Dickinson

Once again, like I so often find myself with anything written by KL Montgomery, I am at a loss of how to do this novel justice with a review. It is hard when a book so greatly resounds with you and your life to put exactly into words how that makes you feel as you are reading, and long after you are finished. I think most of us book fanatics understand the feeling and so a simple opinion will just have to do. I highly recommend that you pick up this novel, and the rest of the series that is available now! One-click the whole series, and prepare to fall in love with Rehoboth.

Claire Sterling is dealing with a lot of life changes. You could call it a midlife crisis, but that is just because it happens to be taking place just shy of her 40th birthday. See, Claire is now a newly single mom, a divorcee to be, and a, well, a ‘fat girl’. She is struggling to find her identity as a woman facing all these obstacles that have just been dumped in her path. Throw in the fact that she now has to move home with her parents in Delaware and that she has a job writing a blog type reoccurring spot for the New York Times, and well you have a perfect equation for some funny stories and times.

In her column, Her Reinvention, she faces her problems head on, and very publically. Her Reinvention is full of her self-depreciating antics, funny dating mishaps, basically her actual ‘reinvention’ is on display, and it makes for some awesome reading material. Her humor really resounded with me. I feel like I often make something funny so that I don’t have to cry. This is something that I know a lot of women face and could connect to. I loved following her journey. I was sad when the book ended. Claire still has a lot to learn and fix so to speak, but she is stronger and a bit more confident by the end of the novel.

Another positive that I feel is worth mentioning, KL Montgomery incorporates the seasons in the novel by breaking it up into sections with poems/quotes that ring true to the seasons of life. This is something I love to see in novels. Poetry/quotes are a huge addiction of mine and I feel like it really is another great way to connect the reader to the story.

Thank you for another strong, body positive, and realistic story KL Montgomery. I can’t wait to see what else is to come from you!

How many lessons of faith and beauty we should lose, if there were no winter in our year!
-Thomas Wentworth Higginson

Behold, my friends, the spring is come;
the earth has gladly received the embraces of the sun,
And we shall soon see the results of their love!
-Sitting Bull

Then followed that beautiful season…
Summer…
Filled was the air with a dreamy and magical light;
And the landscape
Lay as if new created in all the freshness of childhood.
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers. It would be terrible if we just skipped from September to November, wouldn’t it?”
-Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

Fat Girl by K.L. Montgomery is book 1 in the Romance in Rehoboth series. I just started reading K. L. Montgomery’s books and I really enjoy her real life stories, being a bigger girls I really felt connected to the character and her struggles throughout the book. My favorite books are books that I can’t stand to say goodbye to the characters. This was one of them. I really enjoyed the story line and this authors character development. Great read and can’t wait to read the other books in this series. I really like this author and will continue to read her books! I give this book 5 stars.

Fat girl (Romance in Rehoboth) is the first book in the series by K.L. Montgomery. Each book slightly tied into the next but truthfully all can be read as a stand alone as I read them out of order. Claire is in the aftermath of her divorce and is trying to get back out there. Her only problem is that she is her own worst enemy. I love how witty she was and honest with herself, often times too honest or brutal. If I had to pick a flaw of the book it is that she was at times too hard on herself. Although that may be and is authentic, I just think Claire is a bit much for herself. I like that the stories in the series (hey it’s a series of you didn’t know) intertwine as I like to keep up with characters and find out how they are. I can’t wait to see who else will be in the series!