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A Merry Little Meet Cute
by Julie Murphy, Sierra Simone
funny
lighthearted
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Following a case of mistaken headshots, Bee Hobbes is delighted and shocked when she is offered the lead role in a new Christmas movie with the squeaky clean Hope Channel, co-starring beside her teenage crush, ex-boyband member Nolan Shaw who is trying to reinvent his bad boy image. Bee isn't only amazed at her leading role due to her plus size but also her other secret career as a porn star aka Bianca Von Honey. But it turns out that Bee's secret becomes hard to keep when Nolan knows exactly who she is, and loves her because of it.
There was a lot to like and appreciate with this book - Bee's was a fantastic plus size character whose size was only such a small part of the story. She was beautiful, smart and kind as well as sexy and fun and I enjoyed her chemistry with Nolan for the most part, and how her size also added to his overall desire for her as well. I liked that the story did touch on parts and what life would be like for a plus size main role character/leading actress as well as a plus size porn star and what that would entail from hate mail to fetishization.
I also appreciate this book highlighting the sex worker industry and that honestly every single person has a right to engage in safe sex work if they want to as well as carve out a 'cleaner' career for themselves. This book has a variety of characters who are all engaged in sex work in some way from producers to make up and wardrobe, and I enjoyed how they were all a little family to one another.
However, one of the things I didn't like about this book was some of the caricature-ish way some of these sex workers ended up being portrayed as. Characters like Bee's friend and roommate Sunny, who had to have every second sentence come out of her mouth be something sexual, and this happened with many other characters as well and this annoyed be a little bit as I feel it's falling into a stereotype. Not everyone who engages in sex work has to talk about sex all the time.
While I appreciate lots of things in this book, and for the most part the sex/smut scenes were quite good if a little cringe at time (though I do think the 'sex in a church' scene was a bit much and I'm not religious at all), I just never loved this one as much as I wanted to.
There was a lot to like and appreciate with this book - Bee's was a fantastic plus size character whose size was only such a small part of the story. She was beautiful, smart and kind as well as sexy and fun and I enjoyed her chemistry with Nolan for the most part, and how her size also added to his overall desire for her as well. I liked that the story did touch on parts and what life would be like for a plus size main role character/leading actress as well as a plus size porn star and what that would entail from hate mail to fetishization.
I also appreciate this book highlighting the sex worker industry and that honestly every single person has a right to engage in safe sex work if they want to as well as carve out a 'cleaner' career for themselves. This book has a variety of characters who are all engaged in sex work in some way from producers to make up and wardrobe, and I enjoyed how they were all a little family to one another.
However, one of the things I didn't like about this book was some of the caricature-ish way some of these sex workers ended up being portrayed as. Characters like Bee's friend and roommate Sunny, who had to have every second sentence come out of her mouth be something sexual, and this happened with many other characters as well and this annoyed be a little bit as I feel it's falling into a stereotype. Not everyone who engages in sex work has to talk about sex all the time.
While I appreciate lots of things in this book, and for the most part the sex/smut scenes were quite good if a little cringe at time (though I do think the 'sex in a church' scene was a bit much and I'm not religious at all), I just never loved this one as much as I wanted to.
Graphic: Sexual content