Review: Weight Expectations

Weight Expectations by M.E. Carter
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Rian is a plus-sized woman working as an account manager for a media company. After her annual physical check-up she has been advised to exercise more and eat more healthily, hence she has joined Weight Expectations, a local gym.

Carlos is the COO of Cipher Security. He loves and respects women but has no desire for a relationship of any description, he doesn't even want to date. But he tells himself he is honest with the women he sleeps with. Carlos also has a type, blonde, skinny, fit, and shallow. Carlos also has a few hang-ups about his physical appearance. Working with ex Special Forces operatives is almost guaranteed to make a desk jockey feel inadequate, which is why he has started going to the gym religiously and eating healthily.

The smoothie bar tender at Weight Expectations Tabitha invites a few of the regulars out for drinks and dinner. In the event only four people turn up, Tabitha, Carlos, Rian and an older guy. The older guy and Tabitha have a strong flirting game going and Carlos and Rian get talking. But just as Rian is sure than someone as devastatingly handsome and fit as Carlos could never be interested in a woman like her, Carlos knows that he isn't good enough for an intelligent, driven woman like Rian.

This was quite a slow burn. Rian is immediately attracted to Carlos whereas Carlos, being unused to having any deep feelings, takes a while to realise that he is thinking about Rian all the time.

I liked it, but I didn't love it.

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