By Amy Spalding
Out in Hollywood Book 2
Star rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Spice rating: 🌶️🌶️
Blurb
Fans of Casey McQuiston, Alexis Hall, and Meryl Wilsner will fall for this sweetly sexy, gloriously relatable sapphic rom-com about self-improvement, chasing your dreams, and writing your own Hollywood love story – from the acclaimed author of For Her Consideration.
Max Van Doren has a wish list, and a great career and a girlfriend are at the top. But despite being pretty good at her job as an assistant to one of Hollywood’s fastest rising talent agents, she has no idea how to move up the ladder. And when it comes to her love life, she’s stuck in perpetual lust for an adorably perfect bartender named Sadie. Her goals are clear—and Max has everything but the self-confidence to go for them. Even her mother seems to assume she’ll be crawling home to her childhood bedroom at some point . . .
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 friends 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 . . .
Fresh, feel-good, and endlessly relatable, here is a glorious love story for the digital age and beyond.
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Read if you Like:
🍹 Self-improvement
🍹 Sapphic romance
🍹 Set in LA
🍹 Friends to lovers
🍹 Bartender love interest
My Thoughts:
Fans of For Her Consideration will not be disappointed by the sequel! Max's story is a journey of self-improvement, as well as a romance.
Max's attempts to change her life are both relatable and well done. I liked that Amy Spalding showed that while there were some changes Max could have easily made without help, there were also barriers to her making those changes. I think that the second part is sometimes missed and it makes the books less relatable.
Both Max and Sadie had insecurities in how they viewed themselves that were holding them back. It was interesting to find out throughout the story how those perceptions had gotten in their way in various relationships.
I recommend this one to anyone who likes a romance with self-improvement as well as anyone who likes a story about figuring out the life and career you want. It isn't exactly new adult but it does have the figuring adulting out feel of new adult.
🌶️🌶️ - This story includes a couple open door steamy scenes but spice isn't a huge focus of the story.
Thanks to Netgalley and Kensington Publishing for providing me with an eARC. All opinions are my own.
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