For Her Consideration: The most charming and sexy Hollywood romantic comedy you’ll read all year!: Book 1 (Out in Hollywood)

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For Your Consideration is so many things I want in a book: funny, sexy, and super queer. Spending time in Nina and Ari's world was a joy. Amy Spalding has written a warm celebration of Los Angeles, chosen family, and learning how to love and be loved.” I loved how joyful, how thoughtful, and how real For Her Consideration was.” — New York Times bestselling author Jasmine Guillory

Well, I loved the cover and went in cold. It was on offer and I did not read the blurb. This is very different to anything I have read before and the cast is mainly made up with Lesbians with a few using pronouns like “They”. For Your Consideration is so many things I want in a book: funny, sexy, and super queer. Spending time in Nina and Ari's world was a joy. Amy Spalding has written a warm celebration of Los Angeles, chosen family, and learning how to love and be loved.” —Cameron Esposito, bestselling author of Save Yourself I liked that Spalding wrote Nina as a flawed but curvaceous woman comfortable with her plus-size. Ari pulls her out of her comfort zone. She begins to enjoy old friendships once again after misunderstanding are cleared up. Lorna was a stand out in the side cast - all nicely fleshed out. I hoped that Nina would finish her screen play since that would tie up the storyline nicely. A bit of angst then we have a happy ending. Fat positivity/representation: the MC is described as fat and curvy, as is one of her friends, and this is spoken of positively without ignoring the negative ways in which society views fat people.LGBTQ+ representation: the majority of the characters, including secondary characters, are queer. Most of the characters with lines are cis lesbian women and a non-binary person. Some of these characters present as butch. Nina annoyed me a little for how she behaved, but I’ve been in a relationship with a narcissist so I get how Taylor her ex made her think about herself. She needed a huge shake to stop believing what she said is true. Aside from that I really enjoyed her character. Now Ari, she was amazing, she adored Nina and really made her start thinking good things about herself again. She was up for anything and really just loved living her life.

I think one of my favorite things about this was Nina’s friend group. She’s got 5 close friends that do weekly brunches and I loved them all. I also loved how they all loved each other and were not shy about showing it. Found family is a real thing and it was highlighted so well here. I do have to say that I listened to this book as an audiobook and I am proud of myself since it was my first ever audiobook and was worried that I wouldn't get into it but I so DID! I loved Nina's job because it was so original and I don't think I've ever heard about a book with something similar to it! I enjoyed how it wasn't a full on insta-love and how they had their build up. The re- found family in this was just *chefs kiss*👩‍🍳👌 Ari Fox is an up and coming celeb on the radar as someone to watch. Out and proud, Ari wants to ensure that any media drops containing her name are authentic. When the two women meet we are set off in a romance with humor, food - which made me hungry and doses of social media!

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A warm celebration of Los Angeles, chosen family, and learning how to love and be loved.”—Cameron Esposito, bestselling author of Save Yourself 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." Or how about the scene where Nina ponders how "pornographic" it is to eat a popsicle. Sorry, why is a "queer" woman sexualizing the eating of a somewhat-phallic-shaped object? That doesn't seem very "queer" to me. Thanks to the author, Kensington, RB Media and NetGalley for the ARC. I am voluntarily leaving my honest review* Nina frustrated me to no end; first, her level of denial was truly astonishing. Girl!! You can’t be THAT blind?? She sends you gifts, ‘be at my place tonight’ texts, she is into you!!!