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A fiercely funny, super sexy story about believing in your dreams, finding your chosen family, and letting yourself be loved. After reading For Her Consideration, I’m in love with both Los Angeles and Ari Fox. Amy Spalding has such a gift for snappy dialogue and loving, quirky friend groups, and I’ll read everything she writes.”— Kerry Winfrey, author of Just Another Love Song When Max’s roommate, Chelsey—an irritatingly gorgeous and self-assured influencer in plus-size and queer spaces—offers to sponsor her for a new self-actualization app, Max gives in. If she can’t run her own life, maybe an algorithm guiding her choices will help? Suddenly Max is scoring big everywhere, and her dreams are achingly close to coming true. But when one of Chelsey’s posts reveals Sadie’s part in the app’s campaign, Max is poised for heartbreak on all fronts. Tired of the sponcon life with its fake friend s and endless selfies, Max realizes that to have true influence, she’ll have to find the courage to make her own, totally authentic way in the world . . .
No one writes delightful heroines, fresh humor and dazzling portraits of the vibrance of Los Angeles like Amy Spalding. At Her Service is everything— a nuanced, deeply felt romance, a deft social-media send-up and an unforgettable story of finding your place and yourself." While I enjoyed the book overall, I had trouble believing that someone would cut out all of her very close friends based on what one person says about them, and never explain herself. Like, kudos for wanting to protect your friends and the earnest self-reflection, but I can't imagine being in that situation and not going to a single person in my close circle to be like "you won't believe what just happened". THEN if they gave any indication that my now-ex might be right, I might be like "oh wow I'm garbage". And then it happened again?? I'm very glad this second time was different, and that it led to Nina opening up, but it was still a bit too much for me to believe. Even more so because it really seemed during several points that Nina really believed that... she was cursed? Her ex (not a witch) had cursed her? Which is ironic because Nina did end up making the "prophecy" come true with her choices! One of her friends rightly points out that's the dumbest story she's ever heard - but why is it the whole plot?
For Her Consideration
Lydia Jones and her younger sister Penny have had it with boy drama. Last year was marred by relationship disasters for both of them, threatening Lydia’s standing with her school’s theater tech club and Penny’s perfect GPA. Penny has, naturally, diagnosed the problem and prescribed a drastic solution: a summer off from boys. Nina works from home and it suits her especially in her current mindset, this has gone on for 3 years. Perfect for fans of Casey McQuiston and Meryl Wilsner, a funny, heartwarming, and moving novel about bad breakups, found families, and embracing life. A sweet, queer contemporary that gives equal weight to familial and platonic love as to the central romance.”
Featuring ~ single 1st person POV, LGBT ~ lesbian, celebrity, curvy girl, found family, friends to lovers, some steamage The whole story is told from Nina’s pov and I would have loved Ari’s pov too. Mostly because I think it would be more fun, but also because I didn’t really get what did she see in Nina. She somehow managed to see through Nina’s issues, which is really sweet, but also interesting and I was very curious about what was going on in her head.
Advance Praise
I really liked Ari in the book! She was very confidant, and was super nice and respectable from the bat. I too, did question some of her decisions in the book, but I also saw were she was coming from as an observer. I loved how she too found a family in the book. Her character was very likeable in my opinion. She was also really funny and I just liked her overall. I do want an extended epilogue to see her cat because that piece of the story was hilarious out of all things! What I liked so much about this novel is it felt fresh. Romance is stupidly predictable, and Amy Spalding's story follows the typical romance arc, but what felt different is everything else. This is story set in Los Angeles where both characters work in the TV/film industry, one of whom is an up and coming actor on cusp of critical success (she's the front runner for the Best Supporting Actress Oscar). I've read that book many times--I've already read that book this year. But this is different. Ari is out--she's been out since the beginning of her career. Nina is fat and she embraces it. She likes how she looks/knows she's attractive. She's had hot girlfriends. She's attracting Ari, who could have any queer woman she wants, given her celebrity. It takes place in Los Angeles, but it takes us away (for the most part) from the glitz and glamor of West LA, which is what everyone thinks of when they think of LA. Spalding, instead, takes us to the "grittier" side of LA: Silver Lake, Echo Park, Highland Park, and even the northern suburbs--places that are amazing and remind me of home, places Spalding herself clearly loves. For Her Consideration by Amy Spalding is a charming romantic comedy with two winning heroines. I especially enjoyed the strong family bonds, including a truly delightful group of friends. My heart ached at the emotional moments and I giggled aloud at all the funny parts. I loved watching Ari and Nina learn to trust themselves and each other and follow their dreams. Cute and heartfelt, For Her Consideration is a highly recommended read.” For Her Consideration is a heartening, dishy, celebratory novel that features true-to-life queer characters—the exact kind of book I’ve longed to see flourish on bookstore and library shelves. It is an absolute delight to read and a worthy addition to the modern romantic-comedy genre." This book starts off with the main character, Nina, getting distracted while driving and hitting a bicyclist. She doesn't get more likable from there.