What weighs this book down a little on the enjoyment scale is Nina's propensity to run when things get hard, abandoning everyone except for her great aunt Lorna when things get to be too much. She's insecure and we know the reason why she's insecure early on but instead of opening up about the trauma (and the mental and emotional abuse, quite frankly), Nina holds it in. And that's real. I get that. But Nina has people in her life who show her again and again that they love her and they're there for her. So as in all romance, you're waiting for this inability to communicate to come to a head and it does. And even if it's real/understandable/true to life, it still felt tired in its way. No cis straight men characters: I think there's only one cis straight man mentioned, who has a fun part. A warm celebration of Los Angeles, chosen family, and learning how to love and be loved.” —Cameron Esposito, bestselling author of Save Yourself Fat positivity/representation: the MC is described as fat and curvy, as is one of her friends, and this is spoken of positively without ignoring the negative ways in which society views fat people.

The whole story is told from Nina’s pov and I would have loved Ari’s pov too. Mostly because I think it would be more fun, but also because I didn’t really get what did she see in Nina. She somehow managed to see through Nina’s issues, which is really sweet, but also interesting and I was very curious about what was going on in her head.For Her Consideration is incredibly funny, queer, sweet, and sexy. Anyone with a toxic ex or a serious celebrity crush will be able to relate! It's about learning to trust yourself and the people in your life, and it's guaranteed to leave you smiling and wanting to hug your chosen family very hard.” Spalding makes her adult debut with a sweet, queer contemporary that gives equal weight to familial and platonic love as to the central romance…The steady support of Nina’s chosen family alongside the seemingly inevitable romance with Ari make this a cozy comfort-read.” — Publishers Weekly

Lydia and Penny decide to stay with their Aunt Grace and her boyfriend Oscar in Los Angeles while their parents are off on a European cruise. Penny follows her future-business-school dreams with an internship at Oscar’s office, and Lydia gets a part-time job at Grace’s neighborhood coffeeshop, Grounds Control. While I enjoyed the book overall, I had trouble believing that someone would cut out all of her very close friends based on what one person says about them, and never explain herself. Like, kudos for wanting to protect your friends and the earnest self-reflection, but I can't imagine being in that situation and not going to a single person in my close circle to be like "you won't believe what just happened". THEN if they gave any indication that my now-ex might be right, I might be like "oh wow I'm garbage". And then it happened again?? I'm very glad this second time was different, and that it led to Nina opening up, but it was still a bit too much for me to believe. Even more so because it really seemed during several points that Nina really believed that... she was cursed? Her ex (not a witch) had cursed her? Which is ironic because Nina did end up making the "prophecy" come true with her choices! One of her friends rightly points out that's the dumbest story she's ever heard - but why is it the whole plot? A warm celebration of Los Angeles, chosen family, and learning how to love and be loved." --Cameron Esposito, bestselling author of Save Yourself

YA novelist Spalding’s adult debut is an optimistic, empathetic choice for readers, which highlights queer women pursuing creative careers and showcases a strong emotional growth arc.” — Library Journal I loved how joyful, how thoughtful, and how real For Her Consideration was.” —New York Times bestselling author Jasmine Guillory