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Lädt ... At Her Service (Out in Hollywood Book 2) (2024. Auflage)von Amy Spalding (Autor)
Werk-InformationenAt Her Service von Amy Spalding
Keine Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch.  CathyGeha | May 12, 2024 |   Out in Hollywood series #2. Sapphic romance. Can be read as a stand-alone. New Adult. Max Van Doren has a great job as a Talent Agent Assistant. She juggles tasks, phone calls, errands and reads scripts. Sure, she’d love to have her boss’s job one day, but she’s still learning. And her job keeps her busy so she really hasn’t made any friends. She does have a favorite neighborhood bar but that may be because she has a huge crush on the bartender, Sadie. Max has goals but she is not really sure how to make them a reality. Roommate Chelsey, a gorgeous and self-assured influencer convinces Max to sign up for a new self-actualization app and document the process through Chelsey’s page. Max now has actionable items for her career, finding new friends, gaining strength and moving forward on love. Max feels like her life is finally coming together. But the public exposure can also cause problems. Oh the angst of dating, career and responsibilities. It can be daunting in your 20’s. Or 30’s. Or any age. This story has heart and drama. It has sexy love and uncomfortable friendships. It has career ambitions and uncertainty. It’s has feel good moments galore as Max learns more about herself and what she really wants. And it has love. It takes work but finding and keeping love does. And it’s okay. Chase your dreams. You’re worth it. I received a copy of this from NetGalley. (  ) Madison_Fairbanks | Mar 18, 2024 | ) the.lesbian.library | Jan 15, 2024 | Zeige 3 von 3 keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
Gehört zur ReiheOut in Hollywood (2)
From the acclaimed author of For Her Consideration comes a sweetly sexy, thoroughly modern new novel for the digital age about single life, social media, career goals, life-coaching apps, and making the bold move to grab your own happiness-and write your own love story.For fans of Casey McQuiston and Jasmine Guillory. 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. "Charming, uplifting . . . perfect for any reader who has ever dreamed of stepping into their own best life. I want to befriend Amy Spalding's characters and live in her quirky queer romantic world forever." -Susie Dumond, Author of Queerly Beloved "A painfully relatable story of finding the courage to reach for what you really want from inside the messy reality of your twenties. A wonderfully hopeful, queer, LA love story." -Anita Kelly, Author of Something Wild & Wonderful "An ingenious millennial coming-of-age story about trying to find yourself in the age of apps and a culture of grind. Highly relatable, laugh-out-loud funny, and full of hot-bartender sapphic swoon." -Alison Cochrun, Author of The Charm Offensive. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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Out in Hollywood #2
Hollywood dreams fill the minds of many people including the main character of this book. BUT Hollywood doesn’t just dole out dream fulfillment to all who show up – it takes more than that – and the main characters of this book find out just what it will take for them to achieve their dreams.
What I liked:
* Maxine “Max” Van Doren: intelligent, assistant to a talent agent, dreams of being successful, wants to have a loving committed relationship, underestimates herself often, attracted to Sadie, becomes involved in beta testing a self-actualization, a private type who becomes very exposed – grows a lot in more than one way during the story
* Sadie: bartender, bright, friendly, competent, attracted to Max, dreams of owning the bar she has been working in for years
* The way the app pushed Max toward actualizing her dreams and achieving her goals
* The supporting characters: Max’s roommate, the owner of the bar, Max’s boss and co-workers, and the people that came into her life through the app and how they helped Max
* The idea of the story, the location that I grew up in, and that there was a happy ending
* The fairytale feel of the story
* That I believe there is an audience who will love this book
What I didn’t like:
* That I never really warmed up to the characters – had trouble relating to them and the lives they were living. Perhaps because this is geared to Young Adult readers rather than septuagenarians?
Did I like this book? Sort of
Would I read more by this author? Maybe
Thank you to NetGalley and Kensington Books for the ARC – This is my honest review.
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