Jason is Emmy’s celebrity crush and the subject of her NYT bestselling book, #CelebrityCrush. It is veiled portrayal and easily comes out that Jason, who is a TV superhero Hollywood star, is who her novel is based on. Emmy’s dream comes true when her agent sells the movie rights and Jason’s part will be played by Jason. To add to the truly miraculous fantasy, Jason and Emmy will do marketing together for the film. And they play up their relationship for the cameras. So we have forced proximity, insta-love, single mom/dad as our main tropes.
For fans of Tessa Bailey, similar tropes, similar character-types and spice level.
This book had a lot of heart but I didn’t love either of the main characters, they came across as whiny and entitled and simplistic. I could do without his chapters that kept describing her “muscular and curvy” body and her suntan. Her internal dialogue referred a lot to his “rock hard body”- I dont know, it was just heavy on the lust language. I liked the book a lot until around 30% but the conflicts were contrived and it went downhill from there.
I would read another book by the author and liked the setting but this one wasn’t a big win.
Audiobook narrators did well- particularly the performance of the male narrator, I found it easy to follow. This story does have good pacing so it lends itself well to the audio format.
Thanks to Netgalley and Hachette Audio for the ARC. Book to be published 2/11/25.
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