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A review by tallangryplanet
At Her Service by Amy Spalding
4.0
Max's life is simply... stuck. Her career doesn't seem to have a direction and the brightest part of her day is seeing Sadie, the cute barista at the bar under her flat, so when her roommate asks her to take part in a self-actualisation experiment she hesitantly accepts. What she didn't expect was for it to turn her life upside down...
Another cute sapphic romance from Amy Spalding, this book is a fresh take on what it's like to be on your twenties - what do you mean not everyone has their dream job at twenty-five?! Max's story is a more mature version of a coming of age story: she learns that it's necessary to put yourself out there if you actually want to change, and that change is not always comfortable but it is necessary. Her internal dialogue is worryingly relatable at times: "Why couldn’t I have just gotten my own shit together? Was I pathetic or was life actually kind of hard? Sometimes it felt like other people didn’t struggle as much as I did. Sometimes I felt uniquely bad at everything."
I was really rooting for the romance in this book, and if I could I might've had a physical fight with Chelsey, the roommate, for complicating things. The conflict frustrated me quite a bit but I also realise it was necessary, in part because it balances out the overall lighthearted tone of the book.
All in all, this is a great read for a lazy weekend in. You're sure to have a nice time with it if you're looking for something fluffy and positive.
Another quote I found relatable: "It wasn’t that LA wasn’t what I’d expected; it was that I was still me, even after relocating over two thousand miles away."
Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for the opportunity to read and review this book.
Another cute sapphic romance from Amy Spalding, this book is a fresh take on what it's like to be on your twenties - what do you mean not everyone has their dream job at twenty-five?! Max's story is a more mature version of a coming of age story: she learns that it's necessary to put yourself out there if you actually want to change, and that change is not always comfortable but it is necessary. Her internal dialogue is worryingly relatable at times: "Why couldn’t I have just gotten my own shit together? Was I pathetic or was life actually kind of hard? Sometimes it felt like other people didn’t struggle as much as I did. Sometimes I felt uniquely bad at everything."
I was really rooting for the romance in this book, and if I could I might've had a physical fight with Chelsey, the roommate, for complicating things. The conflict frustrated me quite a bit but I also realise it was necessary, in part because it balances out the overall lighthearted tone of the book.
All in all, this is a great read for a lazy weekend in. You're sure to have a nice time with it if you're looking for something fluffy and positive.
Another quote I found relatable: "It wasn’t that LA wasn’t what I’d expected; it was that I was still me, even after relocating over two thousand miles away."
Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for the opportunity to read and review this book.