"You had me at Hola" follows the story of two Latinx stars, a soap opera queen and gossip's poster child Jasmine, hot on the heels of a messy public breakup & the other, Ashton, a nearing-40 telenovela actor whose fame is dying a slow death after building up his reputation in Miami, only to feel like an outsider & imposter in the sets of a newfangled streaming service. Both are desperately attempting to fix up their public image, trying to keep a safe distance from the gossip mills. Jasmine comes up with a "leading lady plan", a set of rules to layout her roadmap to stardom & achieve her professional goals of being a leading lady. But what if to gain her status as a leading lady, she must resist the abundant charms & her brimming desire for her co-star? Will she walk the path of her carefully laid plans or self-sabotage herself, falling head over heels in love with him & dig a grave for her reputation as a messy, emotionally needy woman who throws herself at men the first chance she gets? 



The steaminess can't make up for the predictable third act miscommunication trope and the characters being insufferable.  It felt like the stakes were never high enough, only to be quickly resolved in the next chapter. The epilogue felt like a rushed kind of info-dumping by the author without much forethought. The issues such as PTSD, anxiety, attachment issues mentioned in the epilogue are never addressed in much detail & depth in the book. Also, the thing that bugged me was that these two MCs are so wrapped up to get inside each other's pants that they don't grow as individuals. Both feel like cardboard cutouts especially the male lead. The miscommunication trope was forced & overdone. They could've easily talked it through like the mature adults they should be. In the Latinx representation, the dynamics between the crew could have been better explored in its nuances. The crew were just there hanging in the background, not doing many services to the plotline except to feed the hungry tabloids unwittingly.