A review by lisacanteven
Fat Girl Magic by Kat Savage

3.5

At times this felt very surface level. As a fat woman, I have felt all these things. But I never felt that “aha, this is something I feel but never thought about before” moment. 

There were also times where I really felt like it was written more from a midsize pov. There are a lot of things large fat people feel and experience that midsize people are too privileged to experience. I just never felt like, “yes, a truly fat person wrote this.”

Also all these terrible poems about how men have treated her and not more than a single poem about how she was treated by another woman, romantically. I wish there had been more of an insight into how different being with a woman is from being with a fatphobic man. 

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