My Fair Millennial by Elle Hume [Review]

My Fair Millennial (My Fair Millennial #1) by Elle Hume
Format: ebook
Source: provided for review
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Date read: February 25, 2019

My Fair Millennial
1. My Fair Millennial - Paperback | Kindle
2. My Fair Millennial 2
3. My Fair Millennial 3

Elle Hume
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Synopsis (Goodreads):

I'M LIZETTE CLARY, copywriter by day and Epic Fail Girl by night. I'm an internet meme so notorious that I made a brand out of being human wreckage. Now I'm up for a promotion to New Media Editor at my real job, but there's a catch: I have to compete with some guy named Jason Moon, a Pulitzer-winning photojournalist taller and more gorgeous than any man I've swiped right on.

Jason says he doesn't want the New Media Editor job, but a project that inspires him. And right now, he seems inspired to help me stop being an Epic Fail. We have to work together for six months either way. What's the harm in becoming Jason Moon's pet project?

I'M JASON MOON. Yes, that Jason Moon. It's been years since I felt inspiration. My last muse destroyed my life when she left it, and I've been looking for a new model to relight the fire inside me. Instead, I have Lizette Clary, a party girl who comes to work hungover with a poop emoji purse. She's brilliant, but the New Media Editor needs more than brilliance. She needs control.

I'll help her learn to "adult," so to speak. Lizette's eager to improve, and by the time I'm done with her, she'll be a great editor. My plan is perfect except for one thing... I'm starting to feel inspired by a human meme. And it's not just passion for art.

MY FAIR MILLENNIAL is Pygmalion with Snapchat puppy ears. A hilarious contemporary romance filled with slapstick, sexual tension, and enough 2014 pop culture to leave you swinging from the chandelier. First in a new series by really good-looking and hilarious author Elle Hume.

Thoughts on My Fair Millennial: I...almost don't know where to start with this review. Lizette is a MESS. But she owns that mess. It doesn't make her mess less messy, but she's turned her bad fortune into a brand and she's not going to let anyone get her down.

At least that's what she tells herself. Really, she's internalizing a lot of stuff and doing her best to keep her embarrassing moments from crushing her soul AND SHE DOESN'T SEE IT AT ALL.

But Jason does. Well, initially he sees exactly what Lizette wants him to see. He sees her as flighty and shallow and living for the moment. But then he sees glimpses of the other Lizette. The one who developed a well thought out social media plan and who hides her vulnerability behind sass and sarcasm and oversharing.

And he KNOWS he can help her shine if she'll just let him.

No lie, I REALLY liked the Lizette/Jason dynamic. She's a slightly batty oversharer. He's a good guy determined to do the right thing. He's not happy with the power dynamics he sees in the photography/modeling business and he does what he can to mitigate it. She's just like "LOL. It cool." Which, naturally, he's not down for.

I just LIKED them. When he starts to see her. When she realizes she gets off on his bossiness. When she goes into a self-destructive spiral because she's not good at dealing. Like I said, she's a mess, but she's Jason Moon's mess and I like that.

(As a totally random aside, I saw a stage play of My Fair Lady starring Richard Chamberlain as Professor Henry Higgins in my teens. I have NEVER heard an entire theater of middle aged women sigh as deeply and heartfeltedly as when he walked on stage the first time. THIS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS BOOK EXCEPT FOR THE MY FAIR LADY THING, BUT I STILL LAUGH OVER THAT THEATER-WIDE SIGH. STILL. YEARS LATER. LOLOLOL!)