Nina Rice just went through a terrible breakup. Three years later, she is still impacted by this experience. She changed her life drastically based on the appalling characteristics her ex confronted her with. Completely isolated from her former life, she works remotely for an agency dealing with Hollywood talent’s affairs. She is great at her job and content with how things are going.

One day she has to meet with one of the talents to improve her interactions. As soon as Nina meets Ari, she is crushing hard. But why would Ari ever be interested in her, a cursed nobody? After weeks of falling and falling, Nina has to make a decision: move on from the past or go back into solitude.


I’m pondering back and forth about how I liked this book. It was a welcome distraction from heavy topics, even though it deals with a few toxic relationship problems. I always enjoy a good slow burn, and this story was perfectly paced. I was even happy when it finally worked out. But in the end, I just didn’t like Ari’s character. I know that Nina liked her taking the lead, but Ari took over too much of the wheel. So the ending could have gone either way, and I would have been okay with it. It’s definitely not the love story of the year but good enough for a fun little meet-cute.

I wanted to love this so badly, but it fell flat for me, I didn't feel like our main characters had that much chemistry if any.

liked this a lot!!! thought the character was tbh quite annoying but in a real and relatable way and sometimes annoying people deserve to read about finding love too!! that’s basically the premise of harry met sally and they were right there too.

I was so keen to read this since it was on a list of most anticipated romance books for 2023, but unfortunately this book was not at all for me.

Nina Rice experienced a bad breakup 3 years ago, and ever since she’s kept in her lane. Living in her aunt’s condo in the suburbs of LA, doing her daily crossword puzzle and no longer participating in her old life, Nina thinks that she is doing okay. When Ari Fox - one of the celebrities Nina maintains an email account for - asks to catch up so that Nina can improve the emails she is writing, they start a friendship which eventually leads to more. Nina has to question her reasons for her current lifestyle and whether she’s ready for the next steps in her life.

This book is actually quite gloomy for a romance novel. Nina has basically isolated herself for 3 years due to low self-esteem caused by a nasty email sent by her ex-girlfriend. Some light is made of this situation in the story, but I just kept thinking that 3 years is such a long time to live with such little joy by choice. I felt that this hiding was a little at odds with Nina’s character who is oftentimes quite confident in herself. It made me feel really sad and quite annoyed with her friends who later tell Nina that they’ve heard a rumour that she died instead of trying to track her down in the first place (?)

By nearly halfway through the book I was feeling like nothing had really happened. The first half of the book is taken up by a series of hangouts between Ari & Nina as they discover their feelings for each other. These scenes are actually really cute and I definitely believed that they were a strong match for each other, however I kept waiting for another layer to the story. I didn’t exactly love the writing style of the author either. There were a lot of repetitive descriptors and some cliches that I could have done without too (inhaling scents etc). However I’d definitely read another book by the author because for all I know it could be totally different.

I wonder if not enough was made of the fact that Ari was a celebrity. It was portrayed that Ari is very private and not a large enough celebrity that she receives much media attention. I’m definitely no expert on celebrities and paparazzi but I was surprised that it didn’t have more of an impact and create more inconvenience for these two as they started seeing each other. Maybe this could have been the actual drama that I was looking out for.

Some positive elements to the story are the ‘found family’ nature of Nina’s group of friends who really seem to love and support each other like family (other than above mentioned lack of care when Nina disappears for 3 years). Nina also has a really beautiful relationship with her great-aunt Joyce. I love seeing really close familial relationships in books where the family member really gets the main character.

Overall, I didn’t really enjoy this book and it took me a while to get through reading it as I wasn’t invested in the characters, and it was kind of a mood dampener. However, that's just my experience with the book and others may really enjoy it.

Nina gave up on her dream of screenwriting — and romance — after a bad breakup three years ago. But when she starts ghostwriting emails for a hot queer actress named Ari Fox, Ari insists Nina get back to writing her own stuff. Their budding relationship gives Nina the courage to give her professional and romantic dreams a second chance.

Nina is such an endearing protagonist, Ari is the dreamiest of love interests, and Amy Spalding's sense of humor had me hooked. I love the world Spalding built in this book, full of lovable queer characters and fun settings. For Her Consideration is a delight from start to finish.

This was a fun book to read. I loved the representation - lesbian MC, who's also curvy - and the book has some well-loved tropes, such as found family and friends to lovers.

While it was an enjoyable ride, this book kind of fell flat for me. I missed some of the heat where it was supposed to be and the banter didn't do it for me. The characters were lovely, though. I would've preffered a dual POV or at least an altogether third person POV, but at least the 1st person POV was written well enough. I could've done without the cliche of a 3rd act breakup, but it's a cliche for a reason.
I loved the representation, the pride in the characters in being themselves and I adored all the snacks mentioned throughout the book. Got me wanting snacks as well.

Overall, it was a good saphic read for a light reading.

This is a cute friends to lovers romance.
Nina works from home and manages email accounts for several celebrities. Her boss gets a complaint from a sexy actress named Ari. When Nina and Ari meet, sparks fly. Can Nina get over a bad breakup and work on a relationship with Ari?
I enjoyed reading this story, 4 stars.

Thanks to the publisher and NetGalley I received a complimentary copy of this book. Opinions expressed as in this review are completely my own.

A slow start but a good story with body positivity. I'm always a sucker for celeb romances and this one seemed really genuine and enjoyable.

Loved it!

Smart, sexy, full of fun LA bits that felt like a nudge for locals. The found-family cast of characters made the book so rich and added a lot of dimension. I really enjoyed this.

I loved Ari, she was so confident && spontaneous, && seemed like she would be so fun to be around! But Nina was not. I didn’t particularly like Nina. She could be very frustrating! Like the level of denial she was in was mind blowing. lol. She also self- sabotaged like no other. Ari definitely deserved better but the heart wants what the heart wants!

I do wish this was told in dual pov because we only get Nina’s side! I think it would have been so much better if we got to hear what Ari was thinking and feeling.

It was a good book all in all but I think it could have been better! Thanks to NetGalley for the ARC. I know I’m late posting my review.

Overall this was just okay. It wasn't great, but it wasn't horrible. It missed that little bit of *something* to make it a higher rating. I did love that it was basically an all-queer cast and Nina (the MC) was fat and repeatedly referred to herself as fat. Not disparaging, just an observation, which is so important!

At one point, with about 100 or so pages left in this book I texted one of my bff’s that this book was giving me fucking anxiety and I was not kidding. I couldn’t put this down at all, because it would’ve made me ending it on a cliffhanger.

Sleeping at a reasonable time? Nah. Not happening.

How much do I love these characters? More than mint chocolate chip ice cream, and if you know me, you know that’s a whole helluva lot.

Ari Fox is my type, I’ve had a type for a long time and she is it. I don’t know why, but it made me love this book from the moment she appeared on the page.

I was admittedly nervous about Nina Rice when I first started to read, worried for her, worried if she would be a reliable narrator or not (spoiler alert: she both is and isn’t).

And Lorna?! Oh my god, everyone should have an aunt like Lorna. She is a class act and often unintentionally hilarious.

This book was a slow burn, which normally I have a problem with, but let me tell you it was captivating and fascinating. I loved watching the friendships build, and get rebuilt until there was an extremely satisfying ending.

<b>Seeking: My own Ari Fox. You don’t have to be famous though.</b>

For Her Consideration is a romcom set in Hollywood, between a plus size lesbian who works at a talent agency and an up and coming lesbian actress.

The beginning of this book was really slow, and I wasn’t sure I was going to end up enjoying it. But once the ball started rolling on the romance aspect, I was all aboard.
Nina Rice is a very interesting character. She’s plus size and confident in that, but she is just so unconfident in every other aspect of her life. She’s convinced she’s uncool, and toxic.
Ari Fox is the complete opposite, she’s younger, and confident in everything.
So their relationship has this push and pull, Nina for the first half of their relationship is one foot out the door, waiting for an excuse to run away because she’s scared.
My favourite part of the book was without a doubt the emphasis on Nina’s queer friend group. All of them were such amazing side characters, each unique from the others. The problem with a large supporting character cast is that sometimes they blend together, they aren’t distinct enough from each other. It couldn’t have been more opposite here. I loved how supportive they were of each other. Having a queer friend group (I would even say that it was almost queer chosen family) like that is the dream!
Lorna and Nina’s relationship was sweet, and Lorna was by far the best character, I was living for her sass!
The writing was good and kept me engaged, and I loved the ending. It was sweet and satisfying and tied everything up perfectly. 4/5 stars.

I am not sure who fell more in love.. me with the characters or Nina and Ari. While I loved how the book played out and how Nina and Ari became to grow so close I wish there would have been some elaboration on Nina’s prior relationship. The book mentioned many times how much damage Taylor (Nina’s Ex) had done but never fully gave details on what happened. Thank you NetGalley for the chance to read this book in exchange for my honest feedback!

Thank you to NetGalley and Kensington Books for an eARC in exchange for an honest review.

I really enjoyed this book and appreciated the representation from this book. I liked Nina's character development and Ari seemed like such a cool girl.

However, I do wish Nina would have done more to (ex. seek help from a therapist) not self-sabotage so much. Taylor caused her immense trauma and I feel like it wasn't explored too much - only that it was repeated often.

I would definitely read another book by this author.

For Her Consideration is a beautiful story of Nina & Ari’s queer Hollywood romance. Nina works at a talent agency, answering emails for celebrities. One of which is Ari Fox. Nina wants to be a scriptwriter but is still struggling to find herself after breaking up with her ex-girlfriend 3 years ago. Nina and Ari begin a fiery romance, the whole time Nina keeps wondering when Ari is going to realize that she’s just not worth it.

I gave this book a solid 3.5 stars for a few reasons:
1 - I loved the character development that we saw from Nina, but I wish we had known sooner just how much Taylor had broken her down.
2 - I loved the back characters - her coworkers, her friends, her aunt. They really helped tell the story and helped Nina’s character grow.
3 - I felt the beginning of the story was a little slow and the ending was too rushed to wrap it up.

Overall, I like the story but I did struggle to feel an emotional connection to the story. My current rating scale heavily depends on an emotional connection to the story…. So take that with a grain of salt?

Thank you to NetGalley and Kensington Books for this ARC in exchange for my honest review!

If there was an award for the most self-sabotaging character, Nina would for sure win. She sequestered herself away from her loved ones after a bad break-up for THREE YEARS. Granted, I’ve never had someone write a 12-point essay on all the things wrong with me, but her assumptions that her friends felt the same way was a bit extreme. Ari was great and I loved the romance between her and Nina, and the fact that she was so forgiving and open. Overall it was cute and was great plus-size rep, but man, Nina drove me crazy!

thank you NetGalley and Kensington for this arc!

#bookreview For Her Consideration by Amy Spalding

🤔where did ya come from?🤷🏼‍♀️
- I received an eARC of this from the publisher (Kensington) and it was released in February.

😍the good stuff😍
- Lesbian love story 🌈😍
- A lot of this was also about Nina finding herself and re-finding her found family. I loved those bits just as much as the love story between Nina and Ari.
- Famous actress who’s not super recognizable to the general public yet ☺️ yes yes yes.
- Lorna, her great-aunt, is such a fun character and supporter of Nina in every way.
- Karl. I loved Karl.

🫢my complaints🤫
- It didn’t move as fast as I would’ve liked as a whole, but I still really enjoyed it. It just took me a bit to get into the story.

☺️the tropes☺️
- Famous one

⚠️the warnings⚠️
- A little spicy.

rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

I had really high hopes for this book after loving Jordi Perez and to a certain extent, it did fulfil my expectations but at the same time, didn't.
The writing style was good, as was the premise but for me, characters lacked depth and there were a lot of things that could've been executed a lot better. The main conflict especially didn't satisfy me at all. I don't want to spoil but the reader is just told about the conflict (which is basically character flaws in the MC) through the various characters but we never get to see the conflict in action except for the very start of the book. It feels like the MC has suddenly overcome them which she didn't.
If these things usually don't bother you then I'll definitely recommend reading it.
Actual rating- 3.5

"For Her Consideration" by Amy Spalding is a witty and charming novel that explores the complexities of love, friendship, and Hollywood glamour. The book follows the story of a young woman named Emmy who dreams of becoming a successful screenwriter. When she lands a job as a writer's assistant on a hit TV show, she quickly learns that the world of Hollywood is not all glitz and glamour.

One of the things that I loved about this book is the way that the author captures the excitement and energy of the entertainment industry. Spalding has a talent for describing the inner workings of Hollywood with humor and authenticity, and the reader can't help but be drawn into the world of the TV show that Emmy works on.

Another standout feature of "For Her Consideration" is the well-drawn and relatable characters. Emmy is a witty and intelligent protagonist, and her friendships with her fellow assistants are both entertaining and touching. The romantic subplots in the book are also well-developed, and the reader can't help but root for Emmy as she navigates the ups and downs of her love life.

The writing in "For Her Consideration" is engaging and fast-paced, and Spalding has a talent for creating snappy dialogue and clever plot twists. The book is also filled with insights and observations about the entertainment industry and the challenges faced by women in Hollywood.

Overall, "For Her Consideration" is a delightful novel that will appeal to anyone who enjoys stories about the entertainment industry or the complexities of relationships. It is a well-written and entertaining book that is sure to keep the reader hooked until the very end. I highly recommend this book to anyone who is looking for a fun and engaging read.