For Her Consideration (24 in 2024 #11)

Author: Amy Spalding
Title: For Her Consideration
Publisher: Kensington
Date Published: 02/07/2023

Read Dates: 06/04/2024- 06/06/2024
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

For Her Consideration is a single POV found-family romance between Nina and Ari. After a difficult break up, Nina lives in a self-imposed exile in the suburbs, away from her life and friends in LA. Through work she meets Ari Fox, an actress on the rise who is something of an icon to the queer community. Nina, fearing that the things her ex said about her may be true, is hesitant to start a relationship but falls fast for Ari. They have to navigate complications and baggage to find their happily ever after in Hollywood!

I loved this story! I’ll admit I saw the third act breakup coming and dreaded it (I told the characters to make different decisions but no one listened to me 😹) but other than that I really adored this book. I could understand Nina’s need to go at her own pace and her anxiety. I loved how all-in Ari was once she realized Nina had feelings too. And I LOVED the supporting characters, Nina’s great aunt and her chosen family!

Since a crushing breakup three years ago, Nina Rice has written romance, friends, her dreams of scriptwriting for TV, and even LA proper out of her life. Instead, she’s safely out in the suburbs in her aunt’s condo working her talent agency job from home, managing celebrity email accounts, and certain that’s plenty of writing—and plot—for her life. But a surprise meeting called by Ari Fox, a young actress on everyone’s radar, stirs up all kinds of feelings Nina thought she’d deleted for good . . .

Ari is sexy, out and proud, and a serious control freak, according to Nina’s boss. She has her own ideas about how Nina should handle her emails—and about getting to know her ghostwriter. When she tells Nina she should be writing again, Nina suddenly finds it less scary to revisit her abandoned life than seriously consider that Ari is flirting with her. Between reconnecting with her old crew and working on a new script, a relationship with a movie star seems like something she’ll definitely mess up—but what could be more worth the risk?

Amy Spalding’s For Her Consideration is full of heat and heart as Nina learns that her story just might include the kind of love that lasts.