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WRDF Review of Raquel's Abel by Leigh Barbour

Title: Raquel’s Abel

Author: Leigh Barbour

Genre: Mainstream Romance/Paranormal, BBW, Romantic Comedy

Rating: 274 Awesome pages

ISBN: 978-1-60435-355-6

Publisher: Red Rose Publishing

BLURB:

What's a girl to do when all seems to be weighing on her?

Between her grandmother, who insists she's Anastasia Romanov, the thirty-bedroom mansion she can't afford, and the one hundred-fifty pounds she needs to lose, Raquel thinks she's going crazy.

Abel Rollins, the ghost only Raquel's grandmother can see, has a different opinion. He loves Raquel the way she is and he sets out to make sure she doesn't have that surgery.

According to Abel, hospitals are bad news. After all, he died in one from mustard gas in World War I.

Review:

Wow! This book was not only funny, but it was poignant and brings to mind a fetish I have: I don’t like the emphasis people put on weight. This book brought it to the forefront in the guise of Abel, a ghost who makes Raquel realize that if people can’t accept you the way you are, then they aren’t worthy of you.

Raquel does lose weight but she does it for herself and not for someone else. She learns to accept who she is in a fun, loving way that brings joy to my heart and tears to my eyes. As Able says: “When you find that special someone . . . you have no option but to be patient and let that love come to fruition.”

Raquel’s Abel is a story we could all read to remind us that no matter what body type we have, we all want love. Excellent read!

Reviewed by: Marianne Gibson

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