Thanks to #NetGalley and #Kensington for the #ARC of #ForHerConsideration by #AmySpalding ! Here is my spoiler free review of For Her Consideration!

I loved this book to the very core of my being! Nina and Ari are two Lesbian-identifying women at the center of this love story. Ari, an up and coming Queer Actor who is a favorite in the Oscar race, meets the woman who responds to and writes all of her business email correspondences. While sparks don’t fly, what happens is even better in my opinion. This is a friends - to - lovers story that is wholesome and pure.

I like that the Hollywood aspect wasn’t huge in the book. It was in the background, but not the main focus. The main focus was the friendship that started to develop between Ari and Nina. That friendship, once they both realized they had feelings for each other, developed into a beautiful relationship!

I also loved that this story completely normalizes a curvy woman as the Main Character! Nina is beautiful, confident, and curvy. She loves her curves! I love seeing that she is so confident and proud of herself because of her curves, instead of seeing a story that she is overcoming obstacles, or that she’s happy despite her curves. That was something that really spoke a lot to me. I felt seen!

The found family in this book might just be my favorite of any book I’ve read in a long time! There are pretty much no men in this story, except for an adorable Uber driver! Also, this book felt like a love story to the city of LA.

Finally, this is a story that deals with some traumatic past relationship topics. Nina’s previous relationship, Taylor, said and did many things that stuck with Nina. Those words and actions caused Nina to withdraw from her friends and family. So check some content warnings if that’s something that may trigger you.

Overall, this was a fantastically queer and sapphic love story! It’s perfect to read when you need a light hearted, feel good, rom-com that has great characters and fantastic plot!

This is a fun and empowering read that celebrates the power of female friendship and resilience in the face of adversity. The story follows three Hollywood hopefuls who navigate the cutthroat world of entertainment while trying to stay true to themselves and each other. The writing is witty and relatable and the characters are likable and well-developed. Their struggles feel authentic and meaningful.

Sincere thanks to NetGalley and Kensington Books for an advanced reader copy, in exchange for an honest review.

Amy Spalding created a fun and wonderfully done romance novel here. I really enjoyed getting to know these characters and watching their happy ever after play out.

Thank you to netgalley and the publishers for providing me with an arc for an honest review.

If I’m being honest I would probably give this book a 2.5 but I avoid give 0.5 stars so have at it with the 3 stars. I’m confused about my own feelings regarding this book. It’s written in the POV of Nina, which wouldn’t be that big of an issue if she didn’t internalize everything. I get our entire generation needing therapy, but wow… Having only Nina’s POV didn’t help me with caring about her relationship with Ari. At first I was waiting for it but then Nina continued to either be blind to it or downplay it, and it made me care a lot less. I also don’t feel like I know that much about Ari or the other side characters. That especially saddens me since quite a few of them seem to have an incredibly fascinating life and backstory. No offense, Nina…

The pacing of this book just didn’t sit right with me, and then the added drama 2/3 through the book. I feel like the drama was really played up to have some plot which is not a feeling I tend to get that often.

So yeah, I’m sure lots of people will have connected with Nina & Ari’s relationship. I’m just not one of those people.

dnf at 20% book wasn't for me, unfortunately.

It had potential and I really wanted to like it. However, I just feel the writing style was not for me and I wasn't super interested in the plot when reading. I may give more books by the author another go in the future, this story just wasn't for me.

Immediately I was drawn to the characters in For Her Consideration. What resonated with me the most was how Nina feels she isn't made for relationships. A bad breakup means that Nina has a list - literally - of the things that she is convinced caused her breakup. She feels like a self-destructive time bomb and if that isn't relatable than I'm not sure what is. The whole time, we're wondering if there's any truth to the list? While Nina's character journey was relatable - needing to believe in our own worthiness in life and also love - there were just a few instances holding back my obsession.

An adorable sapphic romance between a actor and the correspondence writer for the manager. I look forward to reading more from Amy Spalding.

3.5 / I have mixed feelings about this book. The romance was all fun and well done, but I just cannot be convinced to like the main character! The book starts out with a breakup from years ago, where her ex-girlfriend provides a list of her flaws. This is obviously cruel, but I found myself agreeing to more of them as the book went along. She's just a bad friend and every time I came around to forgive her, she'd do something else. I don't know if it would've been so bad if that seed wasn't planted in the beginning, but oh well. Thanks to NetGalley for the ARC!

Three years after a bad breakup Nina Rice - manager of celebrity email accounts - meets the actress on everyone’s radar, Ari Fox and feelings Nina thought she’d never feel again start to stir. Will her job jeopardise whatever is budding between her and Ari? Or vice versa?

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Give me a sapphic rom com with a somewhat forbidden romance trope and a plus size main character and I’m instantly invested.

The family dynamic? Loved it.
The relationship? Loved it.
The friend group? Loved it.

Thank you NetGalley for the eARC in exchange for an honest (albeit late) review

Very cute! It definitely follows a very predictable romance style outline, but I don’t think the book suffered overall because of it.

Nina Rice was broken up with in a rather brutal way, tbh, in that her ex-girlfriend gave her a list of twelve very specific reasons why she was a toxic person who would essentially ruin the lives of everyone she was close to. So Nina Rice pulled a Reputation Taylor Swift move and secluded herself in the suburbs of LA for like three years. But then she has to meet Ari Fox for work reasons and her life slowly starts to change.

Now, to be clear, For Her Consideration is absolutely a romance novel. This one hits the right beats and most importantly, ends with a happy for now/happily ever after vibe. And more importantly, this book is deeply healing in a way that I don't think I can quite articulate. But there is something about the way Nina's friends, her found family, welcome her back after her extended absence and the way they talk and heal and come back together. There's something wonderful about the presence of Nina's aunt in this book and the way she and Ari meet and the way Nina has lunch with her and her friends every Thursday. If you liked Love at First by Kate Clayborn, you absolutely need to read this book. I think you'll love it.

I think this was a cute romance book and it delivered on what it promised. I did also really enjoy the friendships in this book.

I love Amy's books and I love this story! This was such an easy read and also a fun read if that makes sense. This was just one of those books that you can read in one sitting and just sit with a smile on my face and I read this. Thank you so so much for this breath of fresh air that I desperatly needed

It took me so long to get into this book, it's quite embarrassing.
I loved this book, so so much!
It's well written, the characters are well described and the plot is likely to happen to any group of friends (speaking of which, is there someone who wants to create a group of twenty-something queer women in Northern Italy?).

The story follows Nina (I loved her from the beginning because all the fictional Ninas I know are perfect, hi Nina Zenik!), a thirty-something lesbian, who has been in self-imposed isolation, since her ex-girlfriend Taylor told her, upon leaving her three years prior, that she is the doom of all her friends with her tardiness and self-centeredness. Through her work, she meets Ari, a rising star in queer Hollywood, and Nina ends up breaking the number one rule when working as an agent, or well, an assistant to one, in Hollywood: "Don't fuck the talent".
This relationship pushes Nina to face the "demons" of her past, reconnect with her friends, and finally, take matters into her own hands and follow the dream she came to Los Angeles with.

There is nothing I would change about his book, I truly loved it all, even the part I didn't like, such as Ari's insistence on Nina following her dream and facing her fears, was so much part of human nature and of Ari's own character, they felt just right.
I loved the family aspect, both blood and found, as Nina says near the end of the book. Lorna is an exceptional character and I aspire to be just like her at 81 years old. The found family is truly great: I loved the sense of community, of safety, they radiate throughout the book. I even enjoyed the confrontation in the end about abandonment.

I’m a sucker for a Hollywood romance so I figured I’d probably enjoy For Her Consideration, but I did not expect to fall head over heels for Nina and Ari.

For Her Consideration is equal parts swoony romance and tale of self-discovery, all set within a spot on portrayal of Hollywood agencies. It’s also one of those romances that touches your heart and stays with you long after you finish the last page. Nina, the main character, is the primary reason for this. Her struggles in her personal life and career felt so real and I think anyone who has ever felt like they’re waiting for one thing to fall into place so they can start the rest of their life will really connect with her story.

There are many other things that made For Her Consideration an easy 5⭐ read for me: -Nina’s friend group, who I wish I could go to brunch with tomorrow
-Lorna and the rest of her posse who I want to have a gossip sesh with
-Ari, who was the perfect foil and partner to Nina
-The use of emails in Nina and Ari’s courtship
-The ending, which while I never wanted to get to, was the perfect way to conclude the story.

If you’re going to read one romance this year, please make it this one!

For Her Consideration is out now. Thank you to NetGalley and Kensington for the eARC in exchange for an honest review.

I received For Her Consideration by Amy Spalding for free on NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you so much for my advanced copy!

This was such a CUTE read!! I loved our main character Nina Rice so much and related to her so many times. It broke my heart how badly her ex treated her and I just wanted to reach into the book, shake her and tell her how amazing she is 😂 Her circle of friends were amazing and I loved seeing her reconnect with them and watch her confidence grow!

The writing style was easy to fall in love with and I practically devoured this book! I think the only thing that kind of irked me was when Ari would keep calling Nina by her full name in every other sentence but that it completely minor and doesn’t affect my love for this book!

This was such a lovely sapphic story, I can’t wait to read it again!

Nina Rice is an absolutely relatable over-thinking, self-doubting 30 something who just wants to live a happy life… but life can be tricky!

She was a super sweet, vulnerable character and I could totally relate to her anxieties about her relationships with people. I loved the dynamics of her friend group and her love interest, Ari. They were all so fun and real!

It felt a little repetitive in parts but overall was a sweet, romantic, touching read. ♡

Oh, this was FUN. I love romances set in Hollywood, and I love a forced proximity opposites-attract romance. Amy Spalding's characters are warm, considerate and deeply likable. I wanted to be in the room with them, having drinks or watching TV or laughing along with a joke. It's hard to come by a romance novel that you want to live inside of, and this was one of them. I hadn't read any of Amy Spalding's work before, but I'll be anxiously waiting for her next book after finishing this one.

I received this book complimentary from NetGalley but all opinions are my own.

This will probably be one of the best books I read all year. This is an excellent read. Every character was thoughtful and carefully written, full of life and love and promise. The scenes were interesting and charming. Nina and Ari are a delight on paper (or e-ink I suppose) and I hope to someday find my Ari. I felt at home in this book as a queer person. This book was incredibly well-written and funny and charming and wonderful and I want to be a part of Nina’s found family. My lord, I will be thinking about and loving this book for ages to come.

I was happily surprised with Amy Spalding's debut adult romance book, For Her Consideration. I wasn't a fan of her last few YA titles but I think this was such a strong adult sapphic debut. I loved that the story didn't rely on the romance for our main character to grow and develop in her life.