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Winning Hollywood's Goodest Girl by Max Monroe
4.0
Synopsis:
Winning Hollywood’s Goodest Girl is a standalone story of Raquel Weaver and Harrison Hughes. She wants to finally kick off her purity ring and be a siren for her friend from childhood. But she’s in for a surprise when the one-night-stand leads to pregnancy.
Harrison never expected that Rocky, his arch-nemesis’ little sister, will grow up to be so beautiful. And that night that he spent with her, he couldn’t get her out of his mind for months after. So when he chances upon the news of her pregnancy, he sure as hell would step up for the role.
Review:
This is the first book that I’m reading by the author duo [a:Max Monroe|14901521|Max Monroe|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1533377701p2/14901521.jpg]. And right in the beginning, the author keeps up with the times in her Author’s Note. The story starts with an introduction (mmm… something different!), one night in August where Raquel is flummoxed with the number of mirrors all around the walls in a man’s bathroom. At twenty-nine-years old and a Hollywood starlet, one would expect nothing would surprise her. But she’s as naive as they come.
Narrated from his and her first-person perspective, this was a fun read. Harrison is the CFO of one of the largest media conglomerates in the world, and a week away from Christmas, when he gets to know about Raquel’s pregnancy, what shocks him more is that she’s famous and he didn’t know. He last met her when she was five and he was ten when he left California. And now, he can’t seem to get in contact with her.
The younger sister of Luca Weaver from [b:Taming Hollywood's Baddest Boy|52299273|Taming Hollywood's Baddest Boy (Hollywood, #1)|Max Monroe|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1583957049l/52299273._SY75_.jpg|75641591], this book also had a poker night with protagonists of all the other Max Monroe books! Thirty-four-year-old Harry is ready to move his life from New York to California just to be with Raquel, but her stardom doesn’t make it easy. That was just such a sweet gesture, so so sweet. But, Raquel’s manager Heidi Morris is such a character! I haven’t hated someone so strongly in my recent reads. Always coming between Harrison and Raquel. The pop-culture references at all the right places had me chortling.
Reading this, it felt like being a celebrity is a really bittersweet business. With fame comes folly, and all that. The most laughs in the book came from Harrison’s group of friends who are all the protagonists from the author duo’s more than half a dozen billionaire line of books. It was one huge laugh riot, especially when their meet-cutes were discussed. Even though some of the jokes weirded me out, good weird or bad weird I don’t know. And the greatest thing is that there is justice in the end. Delightfully satisfying justice!
The story rounds up nicely with literally a big epilogue and three extensions which bring in the entire Weaver family, together with who the next book is going to be about.
Thank you to Social Butterfly PR for an e-ARC of the book.
Originally posted on:
Shaina's Musings
Winning Hollywood’s Goodest Girl is a standalone story of Raquel Weaver and Harrison Hughes. She wants to finally kick off her purity ring and be a siren for her friend from childhood. But she’s in for a surprise when the one-night-stand leads to pregnancy.
Harrison never expected that Rocky, his arch-nemesis’ little sister, will grow up to be so beautiful. And that night that he spent with her, he couldn’t get her out of his mind for months after. So when he chances upon the news of her pregnancy, he sure as hell would step up for the role.
Review:
This is the first book that I’m reading by the author duo [a:Max Monroe|14901521|Max Monroe|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1533377701p2/14901521.jpg]. And right in the beginning, the author keeps up with the times in her Author’s Note. The story starts with an introduction (mmm… something different!), one night in August where Raquel is flummoxed with the number of mirrors all around the walls in a man’s bathroom. At twenty-nine-years old and a Hollywood starlet, one would expect nothing would surprise her. But she’s as naive as they come.
Narrated from his and her first-person perspective, this was a fun read. Harrison is the CFO of one of the largest media conglomerates in the world, and a week away from Christmas, when he gets to know about Raquel’s pregnancy, what shocks him more is that she’s famous and he didn’t know. He last met her when she was five and he was ten when he left California. And now, he can’t seem to get in contact with her.
The younger sister of Luca Weaver from [b:Taming Hollywood's Baddest Boy|52299273|Taming Hollywood's Baddest Boy (Hollywood, #1)|Max Monroe|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1583957049l/52299273._SY75_.jpg|75641591], this book also had a poker night with protagonists of all the other Max Monroe books! Thirty-four-year-old Harry is ready to move his life from New York to California just to be with Raquel, but her stardom doesn’t make it easy. That was just such a sweet gesture, so so sweet. But, Raquel’s manager Heidi Morris is such a character! I haven’t hated someone so strongly in my recent reads. Always coming between Harrison and Raquel. The pop-culture references at all the right places had me chortling.
Reading this, it felt like being a celebrity is a really bittersweet business. With fame comes folly, and all that. The most laughs in the book came from Harrison’s group of friends who are all the protagonists from the author duo’s more than half a dozen billionaire line of books. It was one huge laugh riot, especially when their meet-cutes were discussed. Even though some of the jokes weirded me out, good weird or bad weird I don’t know. And the greatest thing is that there is justice in the end. Delightfully satisfying justice!
The story rounds up nicely with literally a big epilogue and three extensions which bring in the entire Weaver family, together with who the next book is going to be about.
Thank you to Social Butterfly PR for an e-ARC of the book.
Originally posted on:
Shaina's Musings