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3readingcircus's review
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
Graphic: Toxic relationship and Sexual content
Minor: Car accident
gracegeeks's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Alcohol, Sexual content, Car accident, Emotional abuse, and Toxic relationship
fuzzywilson's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Cursing, Sexual content, and Alcohol
Minor: Car accident and Injury/Injury detail
elliereadsthings's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.0
Moderate: Alcohol, Sexual content, Cursing, Emotional abuse, and Toxic relationship
Minor: Car accident, Gaslighting, Medical content, Panic attacks/disorders, Drug use, Injury/Injury detail, and Toxic friendship
duckyreads's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
I absolutely loved that Nina is surrounded by a queer found family (except for her hilarious and supportive Aunt). My absolute favorite part of the story is that Nina is an unapologetically fat character and constantly affirms her body. I would've loved to have gotten Ari's perspective, but I am looking forward to what Amy Spalding writes in the future! I recommend this for anyone looking for a cute celebrity/non-celebrity sapphic romance.
Thanks to Kensington Books and NetGalley for an eARC in exchange for an honest review.
Graphic: Toxic relationship and Sexual content
Minor: Car accident
inkdrinkeranonymous's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Sexual content
Moderate: Alcohol
Minor: Car accident
decklededgess's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
This was a super sweet and cute romance set in LA. Nina’s crisis after her ex gave her a 12 point list of why she was a terrible person leads to her self isolating and working as someone who ghostwrites emails for busy celebrities. That’s such a fun and weird premise. But also the emotional point of this book was super relatable. I too am a flight risk when someone tells me I made a mistake.
Nina meeting Ari and the two of them building a relationship was super cute. I liked reading about Nina struggling to parse out her feelings about Ari, about her job and her writing, reconnecting with friends and more. Her self doubt and fear of being a problem to those she cared about was really well done.
I kind of missed having Ari’s POV. It’s just Nina narrating the romance so I didn’t get an opportunity to connect to Ari’s side of the romance. But since Nina’s emotional growth was such a significant component of the book it makes sense.
I am a little hesitant about the mention of adoption agencies and the subplot of two characters looking into adopting a child. It’s not significant but the harm that adoption agencies have done to children and to birth parents while simultaneously exploiting people who want children is too big of an issue not to mention it in relation to this book. It’s insignificant in the grand scheme of things but for a romance, seeing adoption agencies thrown in as a happy ending really did not fit the vibe. But it’s like a total of four paragraphs in the book so not a huge impact.
I was quite chuffed that the main character is fat and that’s that. Like the story did a wonderful job of just letting her exist. It wasn’t about her size, it wasn’t about how people reacted to her around the diet culture of LA, it wasn’t a Nina learning to love her body. All those stories are so valuable but one book about a fat woman living her gay life in LA learning to be fully happy with her career and love life was a really lovely thing to come across. [as a straight sized person my opinion here is that of an outsider. an own voices review would serve you better in understanding the fat rep in this book]
Overall a fun book! I was disappointed the smut wasn’t more detailed but you can’t win ‘em all.
Moderate: Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Injury/Injury detail, Alcohol, Car accident, Toxic relationship, and Sexual content