Ship Wrecked by Olivia Dade
The thing is that I want to like Dade a lot more than I actually do. I keep putting these books on hold hoping that I’ll enjoy the execution as much as the premise, but as it were there’s a consistent mismatch. Of all the novels so far, as it were, I think that this book held the most promise for me. I am a sucker for relationships built over time and UST banter, and the set up here seems ideal: Maria and Peter are […]
Ship Wrecked by Olivia Dade
Maria and Peter share one unforgettable night of passion together, which leads to some awkwardness after Maria leaves without so much as a note the next morning. They then discover that they’re about to become co-stars on the incredibly popular fantasy show Gods of the Gates. As their characters’ storylines involved being ship-wrecked on a small island by themselves, Maria and Peter, along with a small film crew are basically supposed to stay on location for years, and after they work through the awkwardness of […]
Ship Wrecked by Olivia Dade
I am unsure how to review this book. I loved it. I knew I was going to love it. I am enthralled with the choices Olivia Dade makes with her main characters throughout this three book series (this being the finale following Spoiler Alert and All the Feels). I want everyone to read it and have the same experience that I did. I’m aware that most likely not everyone will as I think there’s a certain kind of lived experience needed to fully grapple with […]
Ship Wrecked by Olivia Dade
Ship Wrecked starts with orgasms and then becomes a slow burn. Olivia Dade’s Spoiler Alert series has centered around a Game of Thrones-esque tv series called Gods of the Gates. In Spoiler Alert and All the Feels, we’ve seen Maria and Peter, two of the actors, flirt and banter in cast interviews and group chats. I try not to develop expectations about how a book is going to go, but even so, I was not expecting Peter and Maria’s journey to relationship. There’s one particular moment […]
All the Feels (Spoiler Alert, #2) by Olivia Dade
Two weeks later, still swooning on my fainting couch over this one. It definitely hit me in my swooners. I want to be friends with Lauren, and I want to hug Alex, and I love them together so, so much. I did end up rounding down, though, for a couple of reasons. But first, the positives. This is a direct companion to the first book, Spoiler Alert. You get a lot more context for Alex’s actions in that book, and a key climactic scene there is […]
All the Feels by Olivia Dade
I feel like maybe Dade is not quite the author for me, but she does such a lovely job of skewering Game of Thrones and name checking fanfic that I can’t help but read her work. While in Spoiler Alert I felt like April was a really vivid character with flaws and strengths that made sense to me, I felt like here I understood and enjoyed Alex but found Lauren a bit hard to get into. It’s not to say that I didn’t empathize greatly with her […]
