As much as I wanted to love this book, I just couldn't.  I felt as though the writing was too focused on Angie's weight ALL OF THE TIME that it made it repetitive and one-dimensional.  It was annoying-not-annoying (read: the overuse of hyphens was also super repetitive).  As an empowered plus-size woman, I wanted to see that in Angie, but instead I was listed every candy bar she ate and all of the shaming she faced.

Fat Angie Rebel Girl Revolution is the sequel to the Stonewall Award winning Fat Angie. The novel opens with the fallout from the previous novels’ ending. Angie has been dealing with a suicide attempt, the loss of her girlfriend, who moved away, and the death of her military sister. An outcast at school, for being overweight and a lesbian, Angie struggles with intense bullying.

As if what is happening in her life isn’t enough, Angie’s relationship with her mother is toxic. “Why did it have to be the good one?” Angie overhears her mother in reference to her daughter’s death. Without a support system at home, the bullying escalates at school so much that Angie’s mom will be sending her to a faith based rehabilitation facility to focus on her “sexual identity crisis”. With life kicking her when she’s already down, Angie embarks on a journey her deceased sister has left.

There are so many 80’s and 90’s references you’d think Angie lived during that time. Even the road trip quest fits the nostalgic feel. This feel provides a fun balance to the heaviness of Angie’s struggles. The dynamic between Angie and her mom is so heart wrenching I would be interested in seeing how that transcends in the future.

I have to start with saying that I didn't realize this was a follow-up book so I found the beginning to be a fast-paced whirlwind since I hadn't read the first book. Having said that, I gave the book the benefit of the doubt that had I read the first book it wouldn't have been so bad in the start. I did enjoy that it strayed away from many 'fat-girl' stories where the main character's sole focus is losing weight and fitting in, it was a nice change of pace there. I found Angie to be relatable in the way that her mother was neglectful and emotionally abusive, she was mourning her sister whom she was very close with, she is an ostracized LGBTQ+ high school that is constantly bullied in vile ways. She reaches a range of audiences with these things. She does seem a little self-wallowing at first until you see what she lives through every day and gain the understanding of where she's coming from. I think this book is pretty good, BUT READ THE FIRST ONE FIRST!!

A great read, uncomfortable reading at times but tells an important story that needs to be shared.  Great representation, made me cry a few times. This is well worth reading it’s well paced, the characters are well written and relatable. Moving is an understatement 

Thanks to netgalley and the publisher for a free copy for an honest opinion

This wasnt my favourite book as i found it hard to connect to the characters and it took me a while to read. I think the representation is relevant to the year and is quite impactive.

While I really enjoyed the overall feel of Fat Angie: Rebel Girl Revolution and the characters, I feel that the narrative was trying too hard. It could very well be a writing style that just isn't my cup of tea. 

The characters were well fleshed out and relatable so that was a big point!

This is a very  well done book by  Charlton Trujillo.  It really does show the struggles of that Angie. So thanks again for letting me read this book, I greatly appreciate it.

I found the premise of the story very interesting, some parts even felt relatable, but I honestly found myself wanting to put the book down a few times after the constant use of hyphens. Initially I was indifferent to it when the main character used it as I believed it was simply her way of speaking and thinking, but then it was also used by everyone else in dialogue and even when writing something. It not only felt overused, I found it difficult to believe that an entire town combines their sentences with hyphens. Angie’s use of hyphens worked well as she is constantly thinking and overthinking things, but I think it should be limited to her and not become this way of speaking for all the other characters. It was a bit slow to get the actual journey, and I occasionally felt more interested in learning about the other characters rather than Angie, but that eventually went away when the second half of the novel began to express some really intense character development.

Angie's life is in absolute shambles. It is the start of a new school year, her sister is dead, having been killed while serving overseas in the military, her girlfriend has moved away to Texas to live with her father and her best friend has ghosted. 

Returning to school, Angie faces extreme bullying and acts of violence. During one particularly heinous incident, she stands up to her bully and breaks his nose. Since no one will come forward and tell the truth, that she was protecting herself from a violent assault, Angie is now facing expulsion.

Her mother, an absolutely atrocious woman who can CHOKE, is threatening to send Angie away to in inpatient treatment center. Suffering from severe depression, grief over the loss of her sister and debilitating panic attacks, Angie is left to navigate what is left of her life essentially on her own.

This book was difficult to read. I was uncomfortable pretty much the entire time and now that I am done, I am not comfortable assigning a star-rating. I know this may seem silly but I just can't narrow down my thoughts to one number.

This book was oddly compelling. The writing was a little strange to me and the narrative was much more 'stream of consciousness'-based than I tend to like but I could not stop reading.

I wanted to know where Angie would end up and how her life would go. She is a character who is in a really bad place, physically, mentally, emotionally and literally, her home is terrible. She doesn't feel positive about anything in her life and was just so down on herself. It hurt to read this.

In addition to all of that, there are horrible scenes of violence, fat-shaming and hate speech. I questioned at times whether or not it was necessary for the plot and I'm not sure. At times, it almost felt like certain aspects were thrown in more for shock value but I don't know, life does get messy sometimes. Ugh, I am just so torn on this one, you guys.

As a consumer reviewer, I can tell you this story made me uncomfortable, but I feel by 'judging' (aka. adding a rating) it, I am in essence casting judgement on the author's story. 'Isn't that what we always do?' you may ask. In a way, yes, but this story just felt so personal, probably due to the 'stream of consciousness' narrative, and it did have a lot of aspects to it that I liked and respected but other things that felt 'off'. 

I am making zero sense right now, I know. That is what this book will do you.

I wouldn't know where to begin in recommending this book to anyone. Trigger warnings are too numerous to list but there was a lot of diversity and a lot of serious topics that should be explored more.

The road trip aspect of the story was my favorite element. Basically, before Angie's sister was killed, she wrote a letter to Angie listing a bunch of things she wanted to experience with her, via a road trip in their state, when she got back home. Since she never made it back, Angie, along with her sister's urn, convinces an old friend to take her parent's RV and drive them to the different locations listed in the letter. They are joined by two additional characters and your typical road trip hijinks ensue. 

It is important to note that this book is a continuation to a prior book, titled Fat Angie. I never read that first book and I don't feel like I was missing anything. This felt like a complete story to me. If you are interested in this one, and haven't read the first, it is my opinion that you do not need to go back and read that first one.

This is not my typical review. In fact, I have been dreading writing this. No gifs, no attempts at humor, this story just doesn't seem the place for it. My final decision is to not add a star rating. I want people to read this. I want to hear other's opinions on this. I think there are so many important issues throughout this that should be discussed more, not just the 'real life' issues but how we express and take in those topics via literature.

*Please note, I did not want to give this a star-rating.

This book chronicles Angie's life after she finds out that her sister, who had been captured by enemy forces while overseas, is dead. Her mother is the opposite of comforting and her brother is hardly around. Angie was incredibly close to her sister, and no upon the discovery of her death, she is torn apart with no hope of ever getting over it. 

Angie struggles with her sexuality and her mother's view of it and after yet another breakdown, she goes on a road trip with a group of unlikely companions. 

So, I gave the first book in this series a 5 stars. I absolutely loved it and thought the writing was great and the characters were relatable. This book follows a bit of a new cast, and I can't say I really liked them all that much. 

I couldn't really stand their negative attitudes about everything - including each other. We also saw a lot more of Angie's mother and I obviously couldn't stand her. However, it wasn't because she treated Angie cruelly, it was because she was completely unrealistic. 

I did, however, enjoy Angie's character arc and her growing relationship with her former friends and her brother. We saw the worst of people, but also were given an insight into how forgiveness can change people. 

I still enjoyed reading this book and am grateful that NetGalley provided it to me in exchange for a review.

This book had me in a love-hate relationship with the main character. At the beginning, I thought that Angie, the main character was wallowing in self pity. Her woes were her total world. Angie seemed to only care about herself. Angie lost her girl friend and was devastated and she had an argument before her sister left for the Middle East and was killed. Those are legitimate woes. But it took me a while to know that her mother was truly messed up. Then bullying came into the story and I understood that. I was bullied a lot when I was a preteen and I tended to stay away from people. But she did not notice that other people were having tough times and I really did not like that. 

I did like the idea of Angie doing things on her sister's list of what she would like to do with Angie after she returned from military duty and I do love road trips.

I felt like I wanted to protect Angie the whole way through. The mother is pure emotional abuse and I felt really angry with her character.

It tells the story of Angie as she tries to work through her grief after her ‘perfect’ sister dies whilst deployed with the army. She is also having to deal with the bullies who verbally & physically attack her because she is fat, gay & attempted suicide in school when her sister had just died.

I think this book could be really relateable for those battling depression, bullying, grief and being openly gay in high school.

The book focuses on the worst things happening in Angie's world; her best friend has suddenly flaked on her while her former(?) girlfriend has fucked off across the country, her sister's memorial seems more like a ploy by her mother to gain public notice and/or sympathy, and going to school is torture after an abundance of bad things happened the previous year. 
Super cheesy (and at times straight-up awkward) writing made it hard for me to get through, until about the halfway point where the true story kind of begins. There's a lot of set-up, most of which is important, but some that I think is more of the 'you should read go back and read the first book for more info' category. I ended up loving the book regardless of this, it incorporates a lot of issues (without making them the main theme) into a brilliant story dealing with self-confidence, bullying and ultimately, navigating difficult relationships.

This novel gave me all the feels! The characters are so real and so complicated; I wanted to reach through the screen and hug Angie on multiple occasions. Great story, great pacing, and the ending was perfection.

More trouble at school and at home — and the discovery of a missive from her late soldier sister — send Angie and a long-ago friend on an RV road trip across Ohio.

Sophomore year has just begun, and Angie is miserable. Her girlfriend, KC, has moved away; her good friend, Jake, is keeping his distance; and the resident bully has ramped up an increasingly vicious and targeted campaign to humiliate her. An over-the-top statue dedication planned for her sister, who died in Iraq, is almost too much to bear, and it doesn't help that her mother has placed a symbolic empty urn on their mantel. At the ceremony, a soldier hands Angie a final letter from her sister, including a list of places she wanted the two of them to visit when she got home from the war. With her mother threatening to send Angie to a “treatment center” and the situation at school becoming violent, Angie enlists the help of her estranged childhood friend, Jamboree. Along with a few other outsiders, they pack into an RV and head across the state on the road trip Angie's sister did not live to take. It might be just what Angie needs to find a way to let her sister go, and find herself in the process.

I loved this book! Fat Angie: Rebel Girl Revolution is the continuation of Fat Angie which won the Stonewall Award and follows the story of Angie, a fat, queer girl who is on a journey to discover her identity while enduring the ruthless bigotry of her fellow classmates as well as mourning the loss of her soldier sister. This is the follow up I had hoped it would be. While there are some dark moments, this book sparks hope for the reader and is complete with 80s music references, an epic road trip and some amazing new characters. This book is a celebration of queer and fat bodies and I can't wait to read more.

Fortunately and refreshingly, the text gives Angie no weight-loss arc…A welcomingly awkward, offbeat journey for a "gay-girl with many heartaches.

Thank you for the opportunity to read and review this title. Unfortunately, the writing style and tone of the two main characters wasn’t one that I could get into. I did not finish this book and will give it a middling rating.

I'm not sure what to say about this book. It was good, however the writing was hard to get through. However, I feel like the representation was important. 

There's the main character, who's fat, gay, and has mental health issues. 
There's Zeke, who is nonbinary and has a stoma. 

So much important representation, that it really did overpower the less than stellar writing. 

Thank you to NetGalley for providing me this book in exchange for my honest review.

Love love love!  I honestly can’t even find the words to express how much i enjiyed thus book! The author had a great way of writing and really does a great job of allowing you to immerse yourself in the book.

My enjoyment of Fat Angie: Rebel Girl Revolution was significantly hampered by having not read the first book in the series. When I requested the book I didn't realize it wasn't a standalone and while you can read this book without having read the first one (which is, unhelpfully, also titled Fat Angie) you'll spend the first several chapters perplexed by what is happening, why it matters, and why so much plot is flying directly at your head at such a high rate of speed. The author tries to catch readers up, but it really is more of a refresher for past readers than a fresh introduction. At some point I might try re-reading this book after having read the first one. I suspect it will result in a change of rating.