Um, excuse me while I spend the next month reading all of Olivia Dade's backlist, because I'm distressed by the fact that none of y'all mentioned how brilliant she is. Good Looooord.

I truly inhaled Dade's novel Spoiler Alert in mere hours, to the point where I legit almost took my iPad into the bathroom with me when I had to pee because I didn't want to put this book down, but I decided against it solely because I do in fact possess some shame and an ability to stick to societal norms.

There's so much going on in this book, and I'm obsessed with all of it. Legend and icon Olivia Dade delivered us a nuanced and complex unraveling of fatphobia from several angles, a lot of fan fiction humor (and pegging puns), some very WHEW GIRL steamy steam, two love interests in their mid- to late thirties (!!!) without any weird ageist commentary, and so much more.

Let it be known that I'm counting down the days until June 2021 when Alex and Lauren's book comes out. As I was reading, I was like, "I swear to God if these two don't get their own story, I'm creating my own fan fiction site dedicated to them." Bless Olivia Dade.