I found it weird that they wanted to qualify her like that. What is different though is that she is not the typical gorgeous-but-doesn’t-know-it girl (at least that’s what they write), but she is a bit curvier than most and she is black. I mean typical in these kinds of romance novels. And when I say typical, I don’t mean typical in real life. The heroine is a typical, quirky, I’m-so-blessed-but-also-please-feel-sorry-for-me-because-I-don’t-understand-the-way-the-world-works-girl. And many romance stories have people with troubled pasts in them and I’ve never had a warning author’s note before. Are disclaimers like that now that much more necessary maybe? Because, I mean, there were no warnings to the Fifty Shades of Grey mess. But to be honest, I didn’t notice much more of that than what I would have expected in stories like these. Opening up the book, I was also a little put off by the Author’s note which mentions childhood neglect and anti-autistic ableism.
The story was a bit clichéd with the typical misunderstandings and people refusing to communicate (though not communicating also causes a lot of problems in real life, so I guess that’s fair).
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