Skinny by Donna Cooner | Rating: ★★★☆☆“It’s like being on a tightrope stretched tightly between two skyscrapers - the past and the future.”
As a note, a finished copy of this novel was sent to me by the publisher in exchange for an honest review. This does not effect my opinions in any way.
Skinny follows the story of a teenage girl who is overweight and struggling with a lot of things that include but are not limited to the typical hormonal worries of a young persons mind. She is only 15 years old and she weighs 300lbs; most of this weight coming from stress, sadness and boredom related eating habits. In part this definitely has to do with the unfortunate loss of her mother — the weight is doing quite a bit of harm to her physical health but her mental health as well.
It’s never fun to be the fat kid in a class full of cruel teens. And to make matters worse, she has a nagging voice in the back of her mind — she calls the voice, Skinny — that keeps telling her she’s never going to be worth it or beautiful. And all of this is stopping her from letting her true self, her voice, shine through at the end of the day.
Not that far into the story, Ever decides to have a surgery to help lose the weight and with the help and support of her best friend, Rat, she embarks on this new chapter of her life to make something more of what she has. But the voice doesn’t go away. And although the pounds are shedding quickly, Ever still has a lot of progress to go in staying on balance with her weight as well as maybe — maybe — reaching out to old friends and one of her step sisters.
