About the Book
Rival photographers are forced to collaborate on a body-positive lingerie campaign, but they might have to readjust their focus when sparks fly.
Photographer Cassie Harris loves her job—her company Buxom Boudoir makes people look beautiful and feel empowered with her modern twist on classic pinup photography. Cassie’s best friend, Dana, is about to launch her own dangerously dreamy lingerie line and wants Cassie to shoot and direct the career-changing national campaign. But company politics and Dana’s complicated pregnancy interfere, and Cassie finds herself—a proud plus size Black woman—not behind the camera but in front of it.
Though she’s never modeled herself, Cassie’s pretty sure she can handle the sheer underwear and caution tape bralettes. She’s not sure she can work so intimately with the chosen photographer, her long-time competitor in the Chicago photography scene, Reid Montgomery. Their chemistry is undeniable on set, however, and feelings can develop faster than film…
My Review
I was really looking forward to reading this because of the wide range of topics that were going to be covered, but from the get go I had a feeling I wasn’t going to love it. I truly thought this was a part of a series until I went to write this review, because it seemed there was so much back story being pushed out in the beginning – I thought surely the author is trying to catch us up from the last book. From my searching though, that doesn’t appear to be the case, so I’m confused why we had to get so much outsider perspective on Cassie’s close friendships and what is going on in their lives. The romantic angle was a little strange to me – more rivals to lovers but Reid was not the nicest dude or seemed to get his privilege as white male, no matter how hard Cassie tried to spell it out for him. It was hard to become invested in the storyline when there was so much telling what the characters were doing and how they felt, and not enough dialogue to go along with it. Toward the end I was just speed reading to see if there would be a happy ending but it was overall very meh for me.
2 stars
