So to write a book about this subject is, in my humble opinion, is very brave. Body image is also something I believe most, if not all, people have struggled with at one time or another during their lifetimes. It’s loaded with so many landmines you need a sniffer dog to even think about approaching or navigate through the subject. Looks and weight are very sensitive subjects for so many people in the world today. The love between them develops slowly as they spend more time together – at the gym and outside it. Right off the bat there is a genuine friendship between these two men, they just click, they make sense and they balance each other out. While questioning whether the elliptical machine violates the Geneva Convention and the purpose of kale you will get to know some amazing people and have a lot of fun doing it. Enter Reed, a personal trainer with the body of a Greek God and you have a set up for very clichéd story. Henry, freshly dumped for being boring and overweight, decides to join a gym to get his boyfriend back. They are you and me, they are the everyday people that you meet at the grocery store – or at the gym. Her characters are flawed and lovingly human. Walker’s books is that she writes about genuine people. I absolutely adored this book, from the first sentence to the last.
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