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Alexis DariaRomance · Romantic Comedy
You Had Me at Hola
Synopsis
Jasmine Lin Rodriguez has just landed the lead in a splashy bilingual remake of a beloved telenovela — a career-making role, and a fresh start after a very public breakup she would rather forget. She has a plan: keep her head down, nail the part, and prove she belongs. Falling for her co-star is emphatically not on the list.
But Ashton Suárez, the brooding, intensely private telenovela veteran playing her on-screen love interest, has a way of getting under her skin — on camera and off. As the cameras roll and their scripted romance heats up, the line between performance and real feeling grows harder to hold, and both of them carry reasons, and secrets, that make falling in love a genuine risk.
The first book in Alexis Daria's Primas of Power series, You Had Me at Hola is a warm, witty, unabashedly steamy rom-com about family, ambition, and the terrifying vulnerability of the real thing.
How it reads
Prose complexity 1/10
Content warnings (1)
Sexual Content
- forgot to write a review about it so here it goes: <br><br>things i enjoyed:<br>- the DIVERSITY. such great representation of the latinx and the LGBT+ communities. it all felt so inclusive and real, not at all forced. loved it. <br>- the bits written in spanish that looked so good when mixed in english conversations. i'm not spanish, but i love that kind of bilingual representations (in my case, i speak to my family in spanish and they reply to me in romanian and i've always thought it was fascinating how our brains managed to keep up so easily when two languages are spoken at the same time). <br>- the way they portrayed the television industry and its flaws, as well as celebrities's struggles with fame and lack of privacy. <br>- CONSENT EVERYWHERE. JUST AMAZING. <br><br>things that i thought were a bit meh: <br>- the QUERIDA thing. idk if it's because in spain we don't use the term that much, but to me it feels more like something paternal, like what a father would say to his daughter rather than something you would call your lover. we tend to say more "cariño", "amor", "mi vida", etc. <br>- the way in which ashton was so anxious about safety and privacy and changed him mind immediately when SPOILER ALERT his kid asked him to take him to new york. that seemed a bit impulsive and rushed. <br>- the sex scenes were so explicit and i didn't think that they were necessary to this type of story. i mean, i'm not against them, i just think they were too much. <br><br>but overall it was a cute reading. it took me too much to read though, but i don't regret picking it up (plus, it was our bookclub pick so i had fun talking about it with the CoHoes). i gave it 3 stars!
- As a hopeless fan of telenovelas (Marimar, Pasión de Gavilanes, Triunfo del Amor, Cuandome Enamoro, Jane the virgin and Ugly Betty)..... #YouHadMeAtHola was such an absolute cute read. Too cute as a matter of fact. I actually felt i was among the crew in the bts (while in my head 😂) listening to the audiobook version. Alexis Daria brings us on an unforgettable, hilarious rom-com set in the drama-filled world of telenovelas. Steamy and romantiv Jasmine Lin Rodriguez returns to to her hometown of NY to film the starring role in a latinx romantic telenovela (after a messy breakup) with Aston Suarez her costar (whose acting career is dwindling). With their careers on the line, Jasmine and Ashton agree to rehearse in private. While trying to make it work generating smoking-hot on-screen chemistry together. How far can they go?