Review: Unworthy

Unworthy by Susie Tate
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Three and a half stars.

It's now the turn of Yaz, Max's little sister from Unperfect. In a family of professionals, Yaz stands out, she's the yoga-teaching, windsurfer chick with a beach wardrobe that's the butt of everyone's jokes. Little do her family know that she is actually a very highly regarded windsurfer and runs her own beachfront business promoting wellness and giving classes to the community (although how on earth don't they know). Her parents have never truly understood why she didn't want to go to university and every conversation eventually circles round to that.

When she was a child Yaz idolised Max's BFF Heath, he and his twin Verity went to school with Max and befriended the little Northern lad who didn't fit into the posh private school. In return Heath used to stick up for Yaz, but more recently Heath has been her worst critic, as a Doctor he poo-poos all her alternative therapies and his favourite adjective is 'ridiculous'.

Heath and Verity might be fabulously wealthy but their childhood was anything but gilded, not many children are happy to go to boarding school at the age of seven, but they were. As a result, Heath has a list of qualities in his ideal woman and Yaz is the antithesis of every single one! Yet no other woman manages to create the same visceral reaction as she does. Can he get over himself in time to realise that what he thinks he wants isn't what he needs and that Yaz might not look the part but she is reliable, organised and loyal?

First off, I love Susie Tate's books and sat here on holiday thinking, I wonder if she has written anything or whether that pesky pandemic kept her nose too close to the grindstone. So I checked and there was a brand new book whoo-hoo. While I did enjoy this, I felt like Heath was sailing too close to some of her other MMCs who all make the wrong assumptions about the FMC, which is why my usual four stars got knocked down to three and a half. I have also redownloaded and started rereading all her other books, oh the joys of a two week beach holiday.

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