I wish there were more contemporary romance books like this one-a plus-size main character and a couple in their mid to late 30s. I LOVED the banter between Alex and Lauren. This book literally gave me All The Feels!!

I love when I learn things from books and among other things I learned how to sarcastic clap in a text. OMG this book is hilarious. I absolutely adore Alex. He is just the Cupid of our dreams. I really need to go look for fan fic sites to peruse, any suggestions? Also, where can I get  my Harpy t shirt!?!
Alex is wrapping up his final season of Gods of the Gates when he gets in a fight and his showrunner sticks him with his plus size cousin, Lauren, who he's super awful to. Ugh you can't pick your family, right.
Lauren has to go everywhere with him and stay close at all times. After weeks of close proximity he starts to get attached.
Ok I had no idea there were so many tropes and situations possible, thanks Alex!
My kids will be at grandma's this weekend I just adore the relationship of banter all throughout this book, the text threads, the inside jokes, I can't tell you how many times I laughed out loud lol.
The harshness of the world crept in telling them that a hot actor type and a kinda cute plus size nobody wouldn't last but they didn't have BHE. I really need a shirt!!
Rating:5
Thank you avonbooks and netgalley for the e-ARC for my honest and voluntary review.

Lovers of Tessa Bailey, Alexandria Bellefleur, and Jenny Holiday will instantly want to grab the newest novel by Olivia Dade. This is the perfect follow-up to spoiler alert and I am here for it. To be honest, I have read this book three times since I received it back in May and will be running to the stores tomorrow when it finally comes out. Olivia Dade has made an entire group of females finally heard and I am OBSESSED. Loved that the characters from the first book showed up in this one. This was a super easy quick read that I finished in one sitting. Alex and Lauren are my new favorite couple.

If you want to read a series that is raising awareness on neurodivergent, fat-shaming, accepting yourself, and abuse this is it. it's about time that the not super pretty thin girl got the good-looking guy!

Also Olivia.. if you are going to mention pegging so much NEXT TIME YOU BETTER AT IT IN BESTIEEEEEE. my only complaint.

run, don't walk to your nearest indie book store and grab this. NOWW. 5 stars.

Thank you so much to Netgalley and Avon for an advance copy of this in exchange for my honest review.

Trigger warnings: physical violence, discussion of domestic abuse, toxic family relationships, fatphobia, bullying.

3.75

Thank you to Netgalley and Avon for an arc of this book.

Alex is doing well in his career as Cupid on the hit show Gods of the Gates. But his boss doesn't like the publicity he's been getting, and assigns him with a 'minder' to keep him out of trouble. Enter his cousin Lauren, who is taking time to decide what to do next after getting burned out in her job in an emergency room.

This was very cute! I liked the body positivity and the discussions surrounding it. Lauren is a really great character and I liked seeing her grow throughout the book. Alex is also a good character! I liked having a few moments with Marcus, too, so if you've read Spoiler Alert, you get that!

I didn't really love the miscommunication that happened in this book. I know that's a big trope in the romance genre, but the specific way it happened felt rather contrived. I also wasn't in love with the epilogue at the ending. But I liked the rest of the book!


Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual content, Physical abuse, and Fatphobia

"Lauren's presence wasn't an intrusion, though. It was a completion."

This book truly gave me all the feels. I really enjoyed Spoiler Alert where we first met the main characters for this book. Alex is an actor on a hit series that sound similar to Game of Thrones. After an arrest in a bar, the production team hires Lauren to stick close to Alex for the next 9 months until the final episode airs to keep him out of trouble.

I loved so many things about this book. Lauren is a bigger girl and said so many things I could relate to about the way the world views her and the way in which she is often treated. In addition, I could relate to a lot of her story about making herself smaller and putting her needs last. It really gave me a lot to think about as I saw so many real parallels. It made me feel so much and I loved her story of growth throughout the book.

Alex is great! I love that he is a fully-formed character and that everything wasn't perfect in his seemingly easy Hollywood world. Quite the opposite, actually. The banter between Lauren and Alex was so much fun. I laughed constantly throughout the book. The ways in which he was vulnerable really made me want to see him get his win. The two had so much chemistry. I loved the friendship they formed and when they got together it was super hot. It was great to see the ways in which they supported one another and had each other's backs.

This is an amazing romance. I liked it even better than Spoiler Alert, which I loved. I would recommend it to absolutely anyone but think that if you are someone who is looking for a larger heroine, than no one writes one better. Highly recommend!

I LOVED the first book in this series and was super excited to get my hands on the second. This story runs concurrently with the first book but you can read it as a standalone.

Alex is a star on a show based on a book series. He's unhappy with how his character and the show is ending and is assigned a keeper by the director. Basically, he needs to keep his nose clean, no more bar fights, and absolutely no sharing secrets about the last season.

Lauren is an ER therapist who is burnt out. She travels to Spain, runs into her cousin the director of Alex's show, and gets roped into becoming Alex's babysitter. It pays well enough that she can take time figuring out her next plan. She thinks there's something deeper about Alex's outbursts and makes it her job to protect him.

The two fall into a friendship and eventually more. There's some great tropes in here including only one bed, forced proximity on a roadtrip, and boss/employee dynamic. I really enjoyed Lauren. She was smart, competent, passionate about her work, and a good person. I liked Alex's protectiveness of Lauren especially about her looks and body shape. The two of them together were fun and the fan fic references had me grinning.

I can't wait to read more from this series and this author.

Let me begin by saying that I highly recommend both of the books I’m going to talk about in this post, Olivia Dade’s contemporary romance novel All the Feels and Freya Marske’s fantasy romance A Marvellous Light with two Ls because she’s Australian. That’s a little tl;dr for anyone who might just want to know “but should I read these books” rather than receiving a disquisition on what I feel is good about fanfic. Can’t imagine anyone feels that way, but it takes all kinds to make a world. Both of these books are out now, and you should buy them! Quickly, to avoid disappointment in the event of Supply Chain Apocalypse.

The mainstreaming of fandom has created some deeply weird ripple effects in terms of fan/creator interactions (my hot take is that we should never have wanted this, at least for the large franchises), but one of the best things about it has been that more and more authors are speaking openly about their fannish influences. All the Feels and A Marvellous Light each feel like books that couldn’t have existed without fanfiction, partly because of subject matter, but mostly because they draw so deeply from the well of joy that makes the fannish engine run.

All the Feels is a companion to Spoiler Alert, a romance novel I have recommended prolifically and at loud volume. Like its predecessor, All the Feels follows a lead actor in the television show Game of Thrones Gods of the Gates, which had some good years but is now kind of a mess because its showrunners lack vision and are mean, superficial jerks. In a mean, superficial jerk move, one of the showrunners has hired his very put-upon cousin, an ER therapist named Lauren Clegg, to follow star Alex Woodroe around and make sure he doesn’t get into trouble. This has become necessary after Alex got in a bar fight, but also because he is an agent of chaos. By contrast, Lauren is relentlessly sensible and self-effacing, though like Alex she’s trying to figure out her next moves as her life’s work implodes around her.

A Marvellous Light is a queer fantasy romance set in an alternate version of Edwardian England where everything’s the same except, unbeknownst to most, there is magic. The sunshiney, athletic, slightly laddish Robin Blyth takes a job for which he is numerously unqualified; the most pertinent of his unqualifications is that he has no idea magic exists and it’s kind of a magic-forward job. The job turns out to be its own hotbed of intrigue and murder—as Robin discovers when he meets the magical (but not nearly magical enough to suit his judgmental, Daisy-Fay-from-Gatsby-careless family) bureaucrat Edwin Courcey. Together they uncover a conspiracy that threatens the very foundations of English magic.

A Marvellous Light is notable for its inclusion of explicit sex scenes, which have always been common in romance novels (A Marvellous Light is a romance novel) but whose presence in mainstream commercial SFF is a pretty clear result of having editors, writers, and decision-makers who came out of fandom. As various genres (honestly including tradpub romance novels! and certainly including things like SFF movies; fuck you, Marvel) have become more squeamish about including sex and makeouts, it’s been refreshing to see SFF publishers shift in the opposite direction. A Marvellous Light is the latest of many recent books from Tor, Harper Voyager, and others that have included frank discussions and portrayals of sex. Yay! (Kit Rocha and Jessie Mihalik’s books are, like this one, romances, but recent books by authors like Rivers Solomon and Nghi Vo have also included sex scenes.)

A Marvellous Light feels especially fannish in the unfussy queerness and careful building of the romance (despite being set in a historical era that was less than friendly to queer love). Marske dispenses quickly with the necessity for Robin and Edwin to conceal their sexual orientation from each other, which allows for her to explore the far more interesting question of what sort of relationship they each want from the other and–crucially–how much of themselves they’re willing to give away. The possibility of romantic and sexual attraction is flawlessly twined around the plot (plant imagery used advisedly): Robin has to spend time with Edwin if he wants his curse lifted (Robin’s under a viscerally nasty curse; I heart folk magic), giving them both plenty of time to gaze yearningly at each other’s hands and dislike each other’s unsatisfactory families.

Freya Marske is open about her background in fandom, and the DNA of fanfic and specifically fanfic sex is all over A Marvellous Light. Her sex scenes, and the scenes leading up to sex, are funny and frank (the two guys realize each other are queer because one of them finds the other one’s, like, porny pamphlet, which is extra funny if you’ve ever read any Victorian or Edwardian porn, all of which is goddamn absurd), and they do this thing that feels inestimably fanficcy to me: Marske’s sex scenes—and the book as a whole—are tender toward the realities of embodiment.

Outside of romance and fic, literature often treats bodies as pure grotesquery, a distraction from the loftier life of the mind. In the first place, I will have no truck with dualism, for it is nonsense. Secondly, this sort of thinking inevitably leads to heightened contempt for bodies perceived as unruly or transgressive, which somehow always belong to marginalized people. An amazing coincidence! And C, hating your body, and bodies generally, really sets a bitch up for failure. We do not actually possess the technology to convert you into a being of pure thought, so you’re kind of stuck with your meatsack, and you might as well be kind to it, even if you do insist on thinking of it as nothing more than the squishy, annoying vehicle that hauls your brain around.

All the Feels is similarly tender about its protagonists’ bodies, which would be par for the course in the romance genre, except that Olivia Dade’s work most wonderfully features protagonists who aren’t cast in one of the, like, three acceptable romance novel heroine physical types. Lauren is petite and round, with sharp features and a beaky nose that makes her look like a bird. As in Spoiler Alert, it’s never suggested that this makes her undesirable to Alex, nor is her body ignored or glossed over during sex scenes. It’s part and parcel of a bigger theme (in both books) of finding within yourself the ability to celebrate your own gifts and strengths, rather than constantly finding fault with your weaknesses.

Lauren is accustomed to people trying to make her feel small, and she no longer reacts to it and doesn’t want Alex to, either. All well and good, until you realize—as Alex does, almost immediately—that she’s fully internalized the idea that she deserves and should expect nothing better than the contempt and snottiness of people who will always, always put her last. On his side, Alex is perpetually terrified that he’ll disappoint the people around him, and perpetually certain that he already has. It’s easy for him to see his flaws and failure, particularly those that arise from his ADHD, but much harder for him to recognize how those same traits make him special, fun, helpful, kind.

A driving impulse of fanfic—though certainly not the only one—is the sense that it doesn’t have to be this way. It’s the source of so much joy in fic, this simple idea to look at a piece of media or, you know, the world, and say, “Actually, I think we can do better than that.” Everybody can be gay! Everybody can have therapy! Everybody lives! For good and ill, there’s a critique baked in to what fic writers keep from canon and what they leave behind, a Marie Kondoing of the elements that don’t spark joy in favor of the ones that do.

The major characters arcs of All the Feels and A Marvellous Light are about finding ways to make use of your existing qualities and competencies in a world that’s not set up to find them, or you, valuable. The broader critique, of course, is that it’s all a trap anyway. There’s no middle ground you can find, no level of adherence to the desired standards that can exempt you from being made to feel small. Alex’s ADHD is met with contempt by—mostly jerks, sure, on page, but jerks who have power over him and are trying to persuade him to be less chaotic. Yet on the other side we have Lauren, a person defined by her ability to bring order out of chaos (that’s why she gets this job!), and it’s clear she’s been conditioned to think of herself as kind of a dumpy killjoy. The system has been set up for both of them to fail, and their emotional journeys are about carving out space for themselves and each other to thrive.

In particular, both books treat the gaze of the beloved as a kind of… I don’t know, splint? braces?, a small refuge within which the characters can begin to see themselves the way their love interests immediately saw them. As the least powerfully magical member of his family, Edwin has been subject to near-constant bullying from his siblings. He’s been convinced that his powers are inadequate, and that induced certainty prevents him from recognizing the areas in which he excels. Robin—new to the world of magic—brings a fresh perspective that Edwin allows himself, slowly, to share.

“You invented this system? You applied it?” Robin looked around them at the hundreds, thousands of books. “And you carry the whole thing around in your head?”

“I made a catalogue.” Edwin indicated a small hand-bound volume he hadn’t once touched. “And if you’re going to suggest that I was a very dull child, let me assure you that it would by no means be an original insult.” …

“Remind me not to make an enemy of you, Edwin Courcey,” he said, smiling to show he meant no sting. “I think yours is probably the kind of brain that could run a country.”

IT’S BEAUTIFUL TBH. I too would be very impressed with someone who had deduced the entire Dewey Decimal System from first principles.

I’ve been pretty critical this year of fannish spaces and racism in fandom, and I stand by those critiques. At the same time, it remains true that fandom contains a lot of beauty and tenderness and also thoughtful critique of inequitable social structures. It’s why I keep coming back to fanfic and why I probably always will. All the Feels and A Marvellous Light are both deeply engaged with the best of the fanfic ethos, and it was a pleasure to get to read them.

The banter of this one is sooooo good! We get a super slow burn with forced proximity that doesn't start until they are no longer co-workers, which I liked especially since there was a little more power on Alex's side thanks to his TV show and movie star self. Lauren has to be his "nanny" after getting put in jail while filming, she is taking time off and her horrible cousin gives her the job. We also get a cute road trip that makes you love them as a couple. The chemistry finally takes place and thank the gods as Dade writes some wonderful steam and Lauren is queen!

Can't wait for more of this series!

5 star
3.5 steam

Thanks to Avon for a copy of this one via Netgalley.

All the Feels by Olivia Dade certainly gave me a whole lot of feelings. This book was originally supposed to be titled Slow Burn and if I'm being honest, I think I (personally) would have left the title alone because this book is a slow burn and that, to me, was a good thing. Olivia Dade has aways been very good at honing in on characters and bringing her characters to life and I think she really excelled with demonstrating that in this book.

Alex held me captive in this book from essentially page one. Essentially, Alex is an ADHD having, chaotic, principled mess and I love him so much. He has a wee bit of a savior complex and honestly, we love a man who knows when to apologize. When he gets saddled with a minder, Lauren, he's really fed up with his show runners, and, I mean, who can blame him really? And then, we get to know Lauren, and oh my lanta, she is so relatable. She's a people-pleasing, self-sacrificing kind of person suffering with crippling burnout and Alex is so determined to make her realize that she needs to take care of herself. Both of them are all too keen to self-sabotage in the name of doing what's best for the other and I was both screaming at my audiobook and wanting them to come to life so I could give each of them a hug.

Plot wise, this book feels very insular and slow-moving, really focusing on the characters with the events naturally falling to provide a catalyst for an emotional development or the next thing. Overall, I thought the book was paced well so long as you go in fully anticipating it being a slow burn. I want to talk a bit about the fact that Lauren is a fat woman, too, because I know despite being an Own Voices representation, we (fat women) tend to have varying desires for how we would like to see someone who looks like us on page. So, Lauren is very accustomed and anticipates people in her life and the public having nasty things to say about her body. She has a hard time acknowledging that the things that people say aren't things she should just wave off as her due and pretend they don't bother her. However, she is both comfortable in her own skin and with her body and it's limitations in a way that read very at peace to me. Throughout the book, there are other characters who will call people out for their hateful fat phobia, but eventually, Lauren learns to stand up for herself.

Anyway, in case you can't tell, I really enjoyed this book. I think I liked it even more than Spoiler Alert, which is impressive.

Content Notes: domestic violence, physical assault, fat phobia (challenged), Lauren is on vacation from a job as an emergency room psychologist and her job is referenced regularly

I like the first book in this series, but I LOVED this one! Lauren and Alex were absolutely delightful, and all of their interactions were just perfect. I laughed out loud, I nearly cried at their adorable-ness and I loved every second. I am still fairly new to the adult romance genre. But this one is immediately a auto recommended for me. Thank you to the publisher and Netgalley for an e-arc in exchange for an honest review!

As a whole I enjoyed this story, the banter and relationship building were great. I also seriously enjoyed the emails and text that separated some of the chapters. There was good character development and growth as well. But this wasn’t a story that had me engaged the whole time, it’s pacing was slightly slower than I usually like. It was a good read but wasn’t one I was drawn into and couldn’t put down.

A huge thank you to NetGalley, Avon and Harper Voyage, and of course Olivia Dade for providing me with an eARC of this copy. I am voluntarily leaving a review, all opinions are my own.

I will say one thing for this book, I love the way Dade writes and I was thrilled to be a namesake to the MC. I didn't connect with the characters in this quite as much as I had in Spoiler Alert, but as always, I still wanted to see how things played out in the end.

This is the perfect read for the upcoming holidays, full of all those great rom-com moments. I would recommend reading the previous book first to get some of the information and everything, but it could be read as a standalone if you don't have access to or haven't yet read Spoiler Alert.

Can't wait for this to hit shelves!

3 Stars!

I really enjoyed this book and but it fell short for me. The banter between Alex and Lauren was perfect!

I love the chapters that were text messages or posts from media channels. They gave a good perspective of what was going on outside the character's heads and let us know how the world was perceiving what was going on.

I loved Alex as a character! I thought he was a super interesting background character in Spoiler Alert as Marcus' supportive best friend. Getting to see his struggles, and why he is the way he is made me like him even more.

I think the failing of this book is the relationship between Lauren and Alex doesn't seem super believable as a romance. Like I said at the top they have nice banter and it was fun watching their relationship grow but there never seems to be a spark between them that makes me believe they'll make an excellent couple. The epilogue is the closest I came to believe they make a good couple but that felt like too little too late.

Overall, If you have some free time over holiday break this is a good novel to pick up and waste an afternoon on.

Thank you to the publisher and Netgalley for the ARC!

I recieved this book from NetGalley in exchage of an honest review...

Where to begin and what to say...
This book truly lives up to its title! All The Feels will have you hanging on by the Edge of your seat feeling all sorts of ways!
Alex and Lauren are thrown together as a means to keeps Alexs' misunderstood ways in check.
Lauren is a Get to the point, Straight forward type of Woman. Her past Employment has caused this no BS attitude and for good reason.
Alex is a celebrity, star of a widely popular show with a habit of Doing before thinking of the repercussions of his actions.
They are polar opposites of eachother, but you know the old saying 'Opposites attract'.
Will they be able to remain professional or will they both lose everything they've worked so hard for?

I can not put into words how much i loved this book!
This book is everything i wanted in a book.
Alex is such a fun and lovable character, even in his most undesirable moments.
Lauren is such a relatable character, it was like a breathe of fresh air.
I loved being able to relate to a character so much, Her attitude about body postivity is something i have been working hard on. It's nice to see a book character who feels like a real woman. No cookie cutter stuff.
I loved the build up and roller coaster of the characters feelings and actions.
Lauren and Alexs' relationship get off to such a rocky beginning, You wonder if it will ever work out.
But alex being the witty and stubborn man that he is never gives up on earning laurens' trust and affection. I loved seeing the lengths alexs affection and friendship reached, Always a gentleman but would never let anyone walk over Lauren.
Olivia Dade DEFINTELY hit this one out of the park!
After Spoiler Alert i didn't think i could find another book i loved and related to in such a way, but i was wrong.
All The Feels is the best book i have read in 2021!
Thank you Avon Books for allowing me to review!
Also Thank you to Olivia Dade for writing another fantastic book!

I'm still reading this book. Its taking me quite sometime to finish it because I find it vey boring and I don't care much for the characters.

Alex is spoiled and brat while Lauren Clegg has no confidence in herself at all. I understand that we all go through low self esteem once in awhile but it seems that Lauren uses it as her identity. I find it hard to believe that Alex, a celebrity, would be attracted to someone like Lauren.

The story itself is lacking, dull and slow. I am 49% into the book and nothing has happened. I'm hoping it gets better.

Synopsis: “All the Feels” is the companion novel to Olivia Dade’s “Spoiler Alert” and follows Alex, a famous actor on a Game of Thrones-esque tv show. After getting in a bar fight and being arrested, the show runners assign Alex a handler named Lauren. Lauren, a no-nonsense former ER therapist, intends to keep their working relationship professional, but finds herself slowly falling for Alex the more time they spend together. When another scandal threatens Alex‘s career and costs Lauren her job, she must decide between pursuing Alex or risk standing in the way of his career.

Review: This book can be read as a standalone, but I recommend reading “Spoiler Alert” first. The first half of this book starts just slightly before the ending of “Spoiler Alert” and is told from Alex and Lauren’s povs. What I loved about this book is the plus-size representation and Lauren’s journey of learning how to feel comfortable taking up space and making her voice heard. Also, Alex is such an adorable love interest with golden retriever energy. I loved getting to see their relationship grow as they both help each other face past and current traumas. The forced proximity trope in this book makes for excellent tension and a fair amount of spice. Too, I feel like this book has me getting major FOMO over a fandom that doesn’t even exist. Overall, such a lovely rom-com that will give you all the feels

Just like Spoiler Alert, this slow burn romance has such a unique feel. It tackles subjects that aren’t commonly found in romance, with a vibe that is distinct and original. Personally, it took me a little while to get into the writing style; there’s just something about it that’s difficult for me to engage with, but once I settled into this story, I enjoyed it. I’ve been looking forward to Alex’s love story and he did not disappoint - he’s a handful, with a sweet yet surly personality that is equalparts adorable and infuriating. Lauren makes a great match for him, and that only became more apparent as the story progressed. This strangers to friends to lovers romance has plenty of banter and playfulness, paired with heartfelt and angsty moments that give it depth.

The story follows Alex, an actor known for his role in a mega-popular TV show. After getting into trouble with the press, Alex is assigned a babysitter of sorts to make sure that he doesn't tarnish the show's reputation. His ADHD makes him more impulsive than most, and it only takes one misstep to ruin your career. Alex and Lauren's relationship goes off track from the start - she overhears him calling her ridiculous, and he seems fixated on her appearance and personality. But as the two spend weeks and then months in each other's company, they slowly become friends. Possibly more than friends. They're both dealing with their own personal struggles, but the two connect in a way that they haven't with anyone else - and that's a surprise to them both.

While Spoiler Alert isn't required reading prior to this, it will certainly enrich the experience. We got to know Alex quite a bit in that book, so I started off this one loving him. Perhaps that's why I was willing to overlook some of his missteps at the start, but this is definitely a book where the central relationship evolves dramatically over time. The second half - for me - was much stronger than the first, once these two become true friends and great companions. The first half also isn't very kind to Lauren's appearance, with frequent references to her roundness and beak-like nose, as well as a focus on her lack of self-worth. It was off-putting, no doubt. Once the book gets a little further along, it's easy to see that a lot of that was intentional, but it's difficult to look past at the start. This is a true slow burn where the relationship feels much more like friendship until subtle moments of intimacy and attraction become more frequent. Those were some of my favorites part of the story, and I really did love the unique vibe. I was lucky enough to receive an early copy and am voluntarily leaving a review of this forced proximity romance.

4.5 stars

CW: domestic violence, fatphobia, ableism, bullying

All the Feels is the third book I’ve read by Olivia Dade and I’m a fan for life now. Here are just some of the reasons why I love Dade’s books: layered protagonists, fat representation, the acknowledgement that people can be so incredibly cruel and you don’t have to put up with it.

All the Feels reintroduces us to Alex and Lauren, whom we first met in Spoiler Alert. As one of the stars of the hugely popular show Gods of the Gates, Alex is highly visible, which can be problematic when he gets into a bar fight. Enter Lauren who is a former ER therapist and a cousin of one of the Gods of the Gates showrunners and is assigned to shadow Alex and keep him out of trouble.

Alex and Lauren are great protagonists and I loved how well they balanced each other out. Where one is impulsive and rash (hey Alex!), the other is thoughtful and even keeled. Where one never thinks of her own happiness and safety (oh Lauren), the other is passionately protective. Both characters are much more layered than most people give them credit for and people—the GoG showrunners, the media, relatives—underestimate and bully both Alex and Lauren throughout All the Feels. If I had a complaint, it would be how cruel and terrible the other characters are to our lovely protagonists. Although, sadly, the cruelty isn’t unrealistic.

Other things I loved about the book: The friends to lovers slow burn romance, Alex’s reaction to “only one bed” (IYKYK), and the use of fan fiction throughout the book. Gods of the Gates is a Game of Throne-type show with a similarly disappointing final season. Alex, against like every part of his contract, writes fan fiction to right the wrongs of the show. Dade weaves the fan fiction into this book just as well as she did in Spoiler Alert.

I highly recommend All the Feels!

ALL THE FEELS – Olivia Dade

Spoiler Alert, Book 2

Avon

ISBN: 978-0-06-300558-7

November 16, 2021

Romantic Comedy



Los Angeles, California – Present Day



After star actor Alexander Woodroe ends up in a drunken brawl in a bar and is arrested, Ron, the producer of the long running show that helped make Alex a star, has had enough. Alex may have used his good looks and charm to get out of past escapades, but now Ron has assigned his cousin to act as Alex’s bodyguard. Check that—a Nanny. Because that is how Alex feels when he is introduced to his caretaker, Lauren Clegg, the oversize woman with a nose like the beak of a bird. Alex vows that he will make her job watching him as miserable as he feels. Yet, once he gets to know Lauren, Alex experiences a shift in how he perceives her.



Lauren is on leave from her job as an emergency room therapist after she began to get burned out. She was visiting Spain where the show is filmed when Ron, her cousin, coerced her into looking after his show’s star. Alex is rude and obnoxious and makes it clear he doesn’t like Lauren following him around. But there is a vulnerability about both, which soon draws them closer, including mutual sexual feelings. But Lauren and Alex are poles apart when it comes to their lives. Can the therapist tame the Hollywood heartthrob?



ALL THE FEELS is a bit of a different romantic tale. Alex and Lauren are at odds at first. He doesn’t want to be babysat and she’d prefer to not be around an egotistical actor. Yet both are at the mercy of Ron, who knows how to run roughshod over people. Ron insults both Alex and Lauren. Alex is soon feeling sorry for her as people make fun of her weight and looks. But he sees the real woman who lies beneath the surface. Just like Lauren sees the real Alex. She soon learns there is more than he is letting on about what happened during the brawl. Of course, that doesn’t matter because it isn’t the first time that he has embarrassed the show.



The relationship between our couple is rocky as Alex piles on Lauren over his frustrations about being under her watch. Lauren would rather be elsewhere, but her cousin browbeat her into the assignment even as he continues to insult her. Alex, who is supposed to be under Lauren’s protection, is soon her protector. Will there be romantic feelings developing between them? The goal is to keep Alex in line so that the final season of the show can be finished, but he doesn’t like the direction the show is taking. As a way to relieve stress, guess who is secretly writing fanfiction? Will they be outed? Alex and Lauren are likable characters, but they seem so different. Can they mesh their lives into one that includes a future together?



A quirky, fun romance that will tickle your funny bone, don’t miss ALL THE FEELS.



Patti Fischer

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This book was incredible! I was so excited to read more from Olivia Dade. After I found out Lauren and Alex were going to be next I jumped immediately on All The Feels. This book is exactly what I needed from another Olivia Dade book. This book really hones in some incredible topics like mental health, body positivity, self worth, and so much more. As someone who deals with all of that, especially as a plus sized girl, this book is incredible and I can’t wait for more of Olivia’s writing.