New Review! Bottoms Up (The Rock Bottom Series #1) by Holly Renee 4 Cranky Stars

Bottoms Up by Holly Renee
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

4 Cranky Stars


Bottoms Up by Holly Renee is a wonderful story about acceptance and the power of true love. It’s real and raw and emotional. It has the realism of the hardships that come unfairly in life, it has the reality of an unusual combination of couples in a relationship and the doubts and insecurities that come with it, it has the quirky hilarious and memorable moments that life brings and it has the heartbreaking miscommunication and judgmental tendencies that are human nature. Bottoms up is relatable and real life, and that’s what I enjoy most about it.


I absolutely LOVE Tucker and Kennedy. They are perfect together. A good balance to the other. Kennedy is what every girl feels and thinks as some point in their life. Old or young, Kennedy is someone everyone can relate to. She isn’t the epitome of beautiful in the sense of this unrealistic image that society deems beautiful. She isn’t super model gorgeous with long legs to die for and a body without an ounce of fat on her. She is average, but the kind of average that beauty thrives deep within. She is beautiful inside and out. She is thick and smart and creative and inspiring and big hearted. She loves herself for who she is, she knows what she wants in life. She has struggled with humiliation, judgement, bullying, harassment, disappointment, and heartbreaks. She has been let down her whole life from people around her because of what she looks likes. Despite it all, she has kept fighting on living her dream of being a photographer and loving herself for who she is and not who other people want her to be.


Tucker is every girl’s dream. He is yummy all wrapped up into the body of a god. He is y’all and muscular and drop dead gorgeous. He is the living embodiment of sex. And he is in love with Kennedy. He see Kennedy for who she is and loves her just as she is. He loves her confidence in herself, love her heart and soul, her beauty within and her body out. He sees the perfection that Kennedy is and not the hateful spiteful words that people use to tear Kennedy down. He supports her dreams and life ambitions, he wants her to be happy and get everything she wants from life. Kennedy is his soul mate.


Kennedy has been the laughing stock of people around her but none more so than her own family. Her parents and brother and the people that surround her in their rich snobby world have let Kennedy down. They have made her insecure and abandoned her when she needed a family. Her own mother rejected her when she needed her. Kennedy doesn’t believe herself worthy of anyone because of the seeds of doubt planted in her mind her whole life by her own family. She doesn’t believe she is good enough for Tucker because she isn’t the skinny model material woman her family demands she be. She Trieste lose weight and become fit, to have muscle instead of fat. And not matter what she does, she still remains thicker even though her fat turns to muscle. She’s never accepted by her family. Her insecurities become a problem in her relationship with Tucker. They struggle for a normal healthy happy relationship because she is constantly being reminded that her body isn’t good enough. Her looks aren’t acceptable.


I love Tucker and Kennedy’s relationship because Tucker destroys all those insecurities. He makes Kennedy forget all the hate and negativity that she struggles with and shows her just how beautiful and wonderful she really is. Tucker loves Kennedy with a passion beyond anything she had ever known existed. He doesn’t notice anyone else except Kennedy, and has spent every minute loving her since the moment he saw her. He chased away her demons, erased any doubts and insecurity and replaced them with love; real unyielding and undying love and affection. The hardships they overcome, the heartbreak and the invisible enemy that constantly attacked Kennedy is something that so many people struggle with daily in the real world. So many girls can relate to Kennedy and the emotional turmoil she goes through every day because of her weight and what she looks like. Every girl deserves to find their Tucker. Every girl deserves to be loved the way Tucker loves Kennedy. Every girl should feel as beautiful and Kennedy when Tucker looks at her.


I give this book 4 out of 5 cranky stars. The only thing I have to complain about this book is the cover. With an amazing story as it is on the inside, the cover doesn’t fit it. I wish the author had put in more creativity into it, instead of sticking with the cliche half naked bodies on the cover like so many other books out there. I would have loved to have a cover that blew me away. It would’ve been an easy five stars then. The cover just doesn’t fit the intensity of emotions and the power of the story within. Id much rather it be wrapped in a brown paper bag then have half naked people on the front of it. Something more fitting to Kennedy and Tucker and more creative to stand out from the crowd drowning in the sea of other half naked models on book cover. Sigh....



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