You Had Me at Hola Primas of power #1

Alexis Daria — 2023

Leading Ladies do not end up on tabloid covers. After a messy public breakup, soap opera darling Jasmine Lin Rodriguez finds her face splashed across the tabloids. When she returns to her hometown of New York City to film the starring role in a bilingual romantic comedy for the number one streaming service in the country, Jasmine figures her new “Leading Lady Plan” should be easy enough to follow—until a casting shake-up pairs her with telenovela hunk Ashton Suárez. Leading Ladies don’t need a man to be happy. After his last telenovela character was killed off, Ashton is worried his career is dead as well. Joining this new cast as a last-minute addition will give him the chance to show off his acting chops to American audiences and ping the radar of Hollywood casting agents. To make it work, he’ll need to generate smoking-hot on-screen chemistry with Jasmine. Easier said than done, especially when a disastrous first impression smothers the embers of whatever sexual heat they might have had. Leading Ladies do not rebound with their new costars. With their careers on the line, Jasmine and Ashton agree to rehearse in private. But rehearsal leads to kissing, and kissing leads to a behind-the-scenes romance worthy of a soap opera. While their on-screen performance improves, the media spotlight on Jasmine soon threatens to destroy her new image and expose Ashton’s most closely guarded secret.

Reviews

Lauryn Page@laurynpage

Feb 11, 2023

This book was good I liked that it had a bilingual text and some spicy character action! Now one thing that just kept bugging me and this is probably just me, ( I am from Puerto Rico so don’t take this comment like an attack!) but the amount of times she mentioned Latinx was killing me. It felt like every other paragraph she had to remind you that the book was Latinx and had Latinx cast and Latinx characters. I am all for Latinx y’all, I don’t think we have enough books like this where I see myself in a character and they know about the island and what it’s like to be a Boricua. My only thing is the book is bilingual, I clearly know it’s Latinx and the characters are all part if not all Puerto Rican. Again this is probably just a me thing, over all though the book was good and I loved that she didn’t hold out on the spicy chapters!