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Pros & Cons

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Pros

This is a book for the misfits and rejects, especially if you were a misfit or reject in a southern high school. Seanan mcguire's beneath the sugar sky comes to mind.

Willowdean dickson is an overweight texan who enters a beauty pageant. She and her best friend ellen are best friends, coming together over their shared love of dolly parton.

Dumplin’ speaks to all of us because we have all felt insecure and frustrated with ourselves and our bodies at one point or another. Thoughout this adventure, dumplin' finds a love interest who consistently reminds her how much she has to offer. Dumpl...  Read More



Cons

An f bomb on the first few pages, plus * crudities and misuses of jesus' name, was a big turn-off. There's a sickening love triangle in which two boys are led on and at times outright lied to. The writing is good, but not the story i was needing to re...  Read More

Every time she makes progress, it quickly reverts. People gravitate to her, but it's hard to see why. Instead of breaking it off with him, she waits for him to do it long after she should have ended it.

There are characters who genuinely and honestly believe willowdean is gorgeous and don't believe her size has any involvement. Willow looks down on the pageant a lot, and after she enters, it's more of an afterthought than anything else. Despite what ...  Read More

Dumplin’ is a book with a lot of hype behind it. I tend to be disappointed by heavily hyped books. How was this marketed as the feel-good ya of the year at the library? Dumplin only talent at the beauty pageant is lip-synching.

Author uses triggery language such as cottage cheese thighs and back flab. Will constantly body shames, * shames and fat shames. All this book does is reaffirm to insecure teens that, yes, even other bullied kids who say they're your friend are judgin...  Read More

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Quality


I was very impressed with the representation in the group the balance between positive body image and health


A dumplin her moms nickname for her is a high school student who deals with the normal things like crushing on boys


I first saw dumplin’ on netflix when it first came out and fell in love with the entire cast and the story itself

Packaging/appearance


I watched the movie with my daughters and we loved dumpling from the getgo


Dumplin was a book i picked up because booktube would not stop talking about it

Competitiveness


And thats all before she sticks it to the man by entering a beauty competition with three other undesierables


She feels like a real teenager navigating a rocky relationship with her literal beauty queen mother a willthey wontthey secret ...  Read More

Overview

  • How are reviewers describing this item?
    fat, great, good and better.
  • Our engine has profiled the reviewer patterns and has determined that there is minimal deception involved.
  • Our engine has discovered that over 90% high quality reviews are present.
  • This product had a total of 1,634 reviews as of our last analysis date on Aug 25 2022.

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    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Although i didnt particularly love the ending the message was eyeopening


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Cute story about a girl trying to accept herself


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    I do think that some parts were better in the movie which is why i only gave it four out of five stars


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    While the book takes place over a longer period of time than the movie the premise is still the same


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    This isnt just a book about a fat girl trying to win a beauty peagent


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Dont get me wrong the movie did the book some good justice but the book way the kind of depth you want


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    This was a sweet ya read centered around a teenager who decides to enter her texas towns annual beauty pageant motivated because of her mothers obsession and the teens perception that she is not the type of girl who would traditionally enter this type of pageant


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    The teen nicknamed dumplin is willowdean who is generally confident but struggles with others judgement of her fat body particularly snide comments from her mother

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