6/19/2023 0 Comments Had me at hola![]() ![]() 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.Īfter his last telenovela character was killed off, Ashton is worried his career is dead as well. I’ll share the blurb and send a warning that anything beyond the text-break contains spoilers:Īfter a messy public breakup, soap opera darling Jasmine Lin Rodriguez finds her face splashed across the tabloids. You Had Me at Hola was better in concept than execution, peppered with a few marvelous scenes like the chocolate chips in your cookie, while the rest was unpalatable cookie-dough filler. What I read instead is an okay scripted romance and uneven, serious contemporary romance: weak in rom and sans-com. In concept, this sounded terrific and, from the blurbish promise, a rom-com was exactly what I needed. You Had Me At Hola‘s double narrative has a “real-life” romance between the two stars of a streaming service( Net-, or Passion-flix?) contemporary Latinx reunited-husband-and-wife fictive-romance. In concept and structure, it was cool to find another novel paralleling Kathleen Gilles Seidel’s Again with its double narrative of “real-life” television-show set and fictive Regency romance. Alexis Daria’s You Had Me At Hola had quite the romance reading “buzz” and, as a result, I was both curious and keen to read it. ![]()
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