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Ginger Holloway is a big girl, and she feels very self-conscious about it. She is adequately content in her job, loves her friends, but wants to find love. She finds herself part of a medical study – to try and test InstaSin. It’s a pill that will make you suddenly more attractive, without actually changing anything about you physically. When Lance Franklin rescues her from a mob of men chasing her, and continues to show a lot of interest in her, she can’t help but wonder if it’s because of the pill’s influence or because of herself.

Ginger is fun, but very insecure. Lance is a successful business man, but he doesn’t trust easily and holds a lot of himself back in his interactions with Ginger. They started spending more time together when they partnered up for a dance event, and eventually became romantically involved.

Just as Ginger expects people to have some preconceived ideas about her weight, which they may or may not have, she has a lot of preconceived ideas about Lance as well. She had her mind firmly made up about what she believes is his type of woman, or what he thinks of her house, or her car. And she doesn’t even seem to realize that she is putting him in a specific box. This played out when, predictably, Lance finds out about the pill and breaks up with her, because he doesn’t trust her motives. She is convinced that it’s just impossible for a man like him to want to be with a woman like her.

I was happy to see that Ginger seemed to have gained a bit more self-confidence towards the end, and that ultimately she was able to believe Lance when he told her how he saw her.

This was really sweet, but moved very slowly. The idea of such a pill is an intriguing one, and begs the question – if you could, should you do it?

Thank you to the author for providing me with a copy for review. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

Was I hooked by this book? Not completely.

Genre: Contemporary Romance