At Her Service

I just finished At Her Service by Amy Spalding and here are my musings!

Max is living a half life. Her life revolves around her job and her work/life balance is out of whack. Her only reprieve is when she visits a neighborhood bar. A bar where the drinks are cold and the bartender is HAWT! The trouble is Max doesn't see herself clearly and all her wants are just a pipe dream.

That is until her roommate, Chelsey, a plus sized queer influencer comes to her. She has been given a job to help launch a new app. A self-actualization app. Resisting her roommate she takes a look at her life. Can't figure out how to move up in the ranks of talent agents... How to win love and how to feel strong. After a drunken date she makes the decision to take Chelsey up on her offer.

The app looks like it is making improvements in her life but it all feels rather unreal and rather than being authentic and honest, Max finds herself hiding who she is from the one person who should know it all.

It was totally cute. This book. I fell in love with Max right from the start. She made it real. Her reactions to what was going on with the app and her feelings about it. The steps she took were realistic and relatable and the author always writes books that bring that to the forefront for me. The realism is excellent and I love that from a book. The character development was excellent. I loved every character I was introduced to. Sadie really saw Max before the app and that made my heart sing.

I loved the underlying moral of this story too. Saying yes more and hiding less from ourselves is such a powerful message. Loved the fact that Chelsey is a bigger girl and was excellently presented for me. She made plus size sexy! It wasn't just Max reaching for the stars but Sadie too and everything Max did... SIGHHH made me well up with happy tears!

I highly enjoyable LGBTQIAP+ Romance

4 stars! Excellent book!

Thank you @netgalley and @kensingtonbooks for my gifted copy!