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:
Oh, this was such a great read! Body positivity in photography, that's a pretty big step forward in progress! I could never, but Cassie is much more confident then I am.I really enjoyed her and Reid's story, and how things developed between them!
That Cassie is plus sized, and has a boudoir photography company, is so great. That her best friend made a line of size inclusive lingerie, that was even better! That Cassie ended up being one of the models, pretty good, but bad because Reid got chosen instead of her.
There's two main romance tropes put front and center at this book. The first is enemies to lovers, they're competitors, but they fall in love. The second was miscommunication, which, urgh, I just wanted him to be making better choices, to actually be talking thing out instead of keeping them close to the vest.
If anything, the main villain in this book was the company. They chose him over her (sexist) and they made her think she was going to be the art director, when nope, it's him. So while she's giving the ideas, he's getting paid for it. Which wasn't a good move on his part. I wish things had been a bit more clear, because yeah, the company owed her a lot more then it seemed like she got. And he owed her a lot more groveling!
This was a fantastic read, and I can't wait to read more by Danielle Jackson!
Author: Danielle Jackson
Read: February 9th, 2023
Source: Ebook.bike
Reason Why: Sounded really great, and it's a DAC Book and a SAC 2023 Book!
Publisher: Berkley
Published: July 19th 2022
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