thank you to netGalley, knopf, pantheon, vintage, and anchor for providing me with an e-arc in exchange for an honest review :) 

 

this book was a nice surprise for me!! i had stumbled upon some bad reviews and was nervous about the content, but oh god i loved this!! was it a perfect book? no. but it was genuine + v good!! 

 

sizzle reel opens up to little miss luna coming coming out as bisexual in her mid twenties. i really enjoyed the coming out aspects of this books and that most of the characters didn’t pressure her into coming out to her family. 

 

luna wrestles with her identity because she hasn’t had any sort of relationship with women yet. thus operation hook up with movie star valeria sullivan ensues. everything is going great, except is it really? luna’s trying to break into the film scene and she’s gonna do that on the set of valeria’s movie. 

 

luna turns to her best friend and roommate romy for all the queer dating advice, and it works until it doesn’t. sizzle reel was messy in the best feelings slowburn, love triangle, coming of age way. i’m definitely going to keep reading from carlyn greenwald!!