At Her Service by Amy Spalding
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.
I really enjoyed this one. I definitely related with Max at times. Chelsey grew on me and I liked Sadie right away. Max uses an app on Chelsey’s socials to help her get her life together. She’s been in LA for a couple years and it’s not what she thought. The app helps hook her up with a trainer, dating help, and even a cool lgbtqia+ kickball team. Max even starts going out with Chelsey and also people from work. She wants to move up and the app is supposed to help her with her confidence. But what Max really wants is to fall in love. She didn’t come out until college and has really only had one girlfriend at 26. She’s super attracted to a bartender named Sadie. The bar is low key and old school. Max loves it and even does some work there. She and Sadie start talking more and even start to hang out. It seems like this app is working great. Until it doesn’t.
I enjoyed every character in this. I was glad to see Nina back. You definitely don’t have to read the first book, but it helps to know more of what’s going on.
I gave this book 4 1/2 stars.
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