GRR Review: Confessions of an Ugly Girl by Alice Wasser

Confessions of an Ugly Girl is a "diary novel" contemporary romance featuring an unusual pairing: an overweight Jewish girl, and a disabled guy. It'd make a perfect Valentine's day (or before) reading.

Matilda "Millie" Glockenfeld is in her 30's and overweight and her mother (stereotype!) is always on her case about when are you going to marry a nice Jewish doctor or lawyer or engineer or something, esp. when her sister Rachel is "much prettier" and already married a surgeon. So mom's always trying to set her up on blind dates with disastrous results, until she found a cute guy, new, working in the IT department... and Millie was shocked to find that the new guy, Sam, is in a wheelchair. But Sam liked Millie, and after one date, Millie was hooked. But Sam had an ex named Holly, and mom's still trying to setup more blind dates... 

There was the darkest night of the soul moment and a grand gesture, but they are so far back in the book (97%) that the ending felt extremely rushed, but that can be explained as saving some of the plots for the sequel. All in all rather enjoyed it. One nitpick: Why do so many people think actuary is boring, but accounting is less boring?

Category: Contemporary

Primary Plot: Older overweight Jewish girl falls for sweet disabled guy in a wheelchair

Overall Rating:  4/5

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