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
MY THOUGHTS
I was asked to read and review this book by the publisher and being honest it isn’t one i would normally pick up but i am glad i read it as i really enjoyed it. So we are following Max who moves to hollywood from her small town hoping that her life will get better and that she will have a great life have loads of friends and be out partying every night but it doesn’t turn out like that as she is feeling stuck in her job even though she wants to progress she feels her colleagues and boss don’t take her seriously. Then there is her love life and her social life she really likes the bartender at the favourite bar Johnny’s but she is too scared to let her know and when she isn’t there or at work she is holed up in her bedroom at the flat she shares with her influencer flatmate. So after a disastrous date she decides to let her flatmate sign her up for this app that wants to help her turn her life around in a month and the story goes from there.
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