I really shouldn't read so many romcoms back to back like this because, by the time I got to this one, I felt less impressed with things I might usually enjoy. Alex as a hyperactive ADHD boyish actor is charming and as self-absorbed as you would expect. Lauren has been worn down by her job as a emergency room therapist and allows everyone to walk all over her. The talk about self-esteem and respecting yourself was a nice addition to a romcom, but I didn't really feel the romantic leaning that led to the two main characters falling in love. To be honest, I think I felt it more in the interstitial chats and scenes Alex had in Spoiler Alert than I did here.

The best part of this book is the things that happen between chapters - the chats, the fic selections, etc. I wanted more of Lauren's best friend or more of anyone for Lauren to interact with that wasn't just Alex. He sucked the air out of the room, usually in a good way, but it left character development for Lauren a bit lacking. I wanted to see more of her as herself, outside his orbit.

It's a fine book, maybe a bit on the long side, and I prefer the first one. I still appreciate a man (much less a star of a fictional television show) being so well-versed on fandom and fic ideas.

4 stars

This book was full of tropes, even deliberately pointed out/acted out by our main characters! So that nod to fanfiction and the romance genre was really fun to see. I'd say the main two here are 'forced proximity' and 'opposites attract'.

Alex is gorgeous and famous, and his impulsive nature has landed him in hot water with the production team of the hit TV show he stars on. The jerk showrunner hires his cousin to be babysitter and minder to Alex, and Lauren is a no-nonsense stick in the mud that Alex is determined to aggravate at every opportunity. They quickly form a truce, and then a friendship, as Lauren realizes that Alex really needs some love and attention, and he's an honorable and deeply caring man. Alex is intrigued by Lauren's unconventional appearance, and finds her dry humor is a front disguising her caring and generous nature. Sparks begin to fly between this unlikely pair, even as Alex's career is in major jeopardy...

I found this book to be very readable and well paced, if a little light on plot (I connected more with characters in the first book).
I loved our two main characters, I thought they were both written to be full rounded personalities and had their own issues that were layered into their everyday thoughts and came up during the forming of the relationship. This appears to be something author Olivia Dade does well--showing how realistically everyone carries 'baggage' and how opening up to someone and falling for them is a revealing of the tender parts of ourselves. That being said, sometimes Alex bordered on annoying or childish to me, with his purposely trying to bait Lauren. And though Lauren's dry wit brought plenty of humor, I wanted a few more moods from her as well.

Be still my heart! Such a good story. I loved finally having a character with ADHD, and portrayed so well. Plus the romance was A+. More please!

All right, this is the sequel/companion to Spoiler Alert, which I also read and loved, and there is a third book coming out in November that I also can’t wait to read.

These books contain wonderful characters and highlight a number of characteristics that I honestly think we should see more representation of in stories and shows and such. The leading lady of this story, Lauren, is plus-size. And leading man Alex writes fanfiction about the character he plays in the show Gods of the Gates.

And both Lauren and Alex have their own internal struggles and anxieties and traumas to deal with. It adds even more dimension to the story overall, which I enjoy. There are humorous moments and emotional moments, and it was overall an enjoyable experience to watch Alex tease and flirt with Lauren, and to witness Lauren start to fall for him in spite of her attempts to remain distant and professional.

Of course this book also includes cameos from the leading couple of the previous book, and I feel like some of the characters mentioned from both books so far will either become main characters in future installments or will at least continue making appearances throughout. So far everyone has had some sort of connection to Gods of the Gates.

Actually, now that I’m writing this, it’s making me want to go back and read Spoiler Alert and All the Feels all over again. I’m a sucker for a well-executed story that has some kind of a focus on fandom.

Love Olivia Dade and this series. It's so fun, nerdy, sexy, layered! I've suggested this book many times to customers and people just... in the world.

I LOVED this book so much. I had read middling reviews of it by other early reviewers, but I thought it was fantastic – just like SPOILER ALERT. I will read anything that this author writes!

This is my first title by Oliva Dade and it was a fantastic one. It was funny and cute. I loved the romance and who doesn't love a golden retriever male lead. I will definitely look forward to more!

I loved this one even more than the first. Alex is a human golden retriever/manic pixie dream boy and I am clearly here for Lauren’s Big Harpy Energy. This made me laugh and made me swoon and gave me…All The Feels.

This book was so good!!! I fell in love with the characters right away!!! I don’t know why I didn’t read this sooner. It is one of my favorites for the year so far!! I loved the chemistry between Lauren and Alex. They are seriously perfect for each other! I really liked Alex’s story arch also. Not the usual for a hero in a romance novel!

Olivia Dade has done it once again! It's the mark of a good story for me when someone can introduce you to two characters and their respective issues, outline those underlying struggles clearly, and then make it plain that BOTH sides are ultimately not without flaws when it comes to the big misunderstanding or dark moment event. Lauren and Alex are a match of seeming opposites, but that also means they're well-equipped to notice one another's shortcomings as well as their strengths too. And once the love scenes finally happened? Hello, page-scorcher! This series also continues to serve as a love letter to fanfic, which remains a wonderful and charming aspect in this book as well. Very much looking forward to Ship Wrecked!

I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book from the publisher via NetGalley. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

I had a hard time with this one. The characterization felt off in a way that made the characters unlikeable and unrelatable. A shame because I loved Spoiler Alert.

Cute! Slightly disappointed by the lack of pegging (iykyk) but I guess we can't have everything. The *constant* mention of fanfic tropes was a little much.

TW: ableism, fatphobia, discussion of past domestic violence, ugly-shaming (there's got to be a better word for this??), groping, mentions of professional burnout (in health care, specifically)

I liked this book must more than I liked the first book in this series. I found these characters more enjoyable to follow and I was interested in their story. I would read much more about this couple! I'm excited to see where this series goes!

Yes yes yes to everything this author puts out! Her characters always draw me in and I love the variety in them as well.

Thank you to the publisher for my review copy. All opinions are my own.

I am putting this down at 20%. Frankly, I'm bored. We know what is going to happen and I feel absolutely no spark between the two main characters.

Mehhhhh, the writing is not terrible...I just have zero interest in continuing.

(This review was written months after having read the ARC, after dealing with a period of some personal issues. Apologies for the tardiness as I catch up on the backlog of reviews.)

This is the second book in the series, after "Spoiler Alert," which I found charming, genuinely funny, smart and the best by far of Olivia Dade's romances (I checked out her previous stuff, which was cute but just OK). As with the first, this involves a civilian woman and one of the hunky actors from the Ancient Roman period drama "Gods of the Gates," which is set up to have a "Game of Thrones"-like fame. Oh, and a lovely fanfic community.

Alexander Woodroe plays Cupid on the show and has the reputation for being a bit of a wild child with emotional outbursts. After a bar fight, the show's producer hires Lauren Clegg, an ER therapist, to be his handler or nanny or something. Yeah, it doesn't really make sense, but that's fine. Suspension of disbelief is important here because this "Gods of the Gates" show sounds awful. But I digress.

What's good.:As in the first book, we learn of Alex's burgeoning hobby with writing fanfic about Cupid, particularly a certain kind of racy fanfic, which I found delightful. The look into that world is so honestly well done. There's a lot of affection there.

Also, Dade makes a decent effort in finding the issue that is holding back each of the characters from getting a happy ending right away. While Lauren's feels very real world, Alex's does feel slightly contrived. To be clear, it's believable as in it fits in the real world, but it does feel a little bit too pat to explain his issues while simultaneously making him perfect for Lauren. Do I sound to cynical here? Alas.

What didn't quite work for me: I'm all for romances that don't pair two gorgeous people. That gets to be very annoying to read because often their good looks are conflated with goodness by the author. Dade has been making a point to present women who aren't always the most pursued for their looks, which is great. What I find odd is that in writing about Lauren, Dade seems to not exactly be able to describe why Alex and Lauren like each other, or rather, we're told that they do but I had a hard time feeling it (I guess I'd prefer to be shown, not told). So when Alex is looking at Lauren, who's often describe with a beak-like nose, round body and skinny legs making her look like a bird, he is drawn to her because he finds her looks "interesting." Maybe it's just my hangup but "interesting" is not a very specific word to me and in fact can be used as an insult. I feel if someone is genuninely drawn to someone, they'd find their eyes fascinating or mesmerizing or compelling. "Interesting" seems as if the author is trying to hard to prove "Lauren is interesting!"

And then when it comes to their dynamic, I also found that they both kept being drawn together despite what I found to be a very conflict-driven type of interaction. Again, I am not questioning the actual attraction, rather I wish I could've been pulled along for it. So after a slew of terse exchanges and having Alex miss them, I want to find out why. Like, do those exchanges make him feel amused, familiar, like he's being valued? What? As the reader I felt I was often an outsider and saw the exchanges as unpleasant ... so I just wanted the curtain to be drawn back a little I guess, not made to just accept that acerbicness is sexy.

Regardless, I was gunning for the relationship and how each had to make some difficult accommodations to meet in the middle eventually. There's a great scene later on with an on-camera interview I found fun, having been in the entertainment journalism business.

Also, there's some fun castle shenanigans and that one guy on a text thread that doesn't belong I found amusing. The details are fantastic. While I didn't embrace this book as fully as the first one, I still found it to be a very alive and intriguing world Dade has created. I'd be interested in the next installment, if there is one.

Review based on an ARC provided by NetGalley & Avon and Harper Voyager

This is my first Olivia Dade book and it will not be my last! I've been dragging my feet to read this because I haven't read the first book in the series, but I am a mood reader at heart and my mood said this is the one. Let me tell you, it did not disappoint! As a plus sized woman myself, it is already hard to feel like most of the main characters we read about, but the representation and body positivity was truly amazing.

I really enjoyed this book and I'm looking forward to reading Olivia Dades other books!

The way this book pokes fun at itself and at romance tropes in general made it an refreshing read. All The Feels is the sequel to Spoiler Alert, which you definitely need to read before this book or you lose out on a lot of context. Both Lauren and Alex were sweet and caring character, there was no big drama.

I gave this book 3.5 stars on Storygraph (@/emilycmarshman on there if you'd like to be friends!) - the more romcoms I read, the more I think that maybe I don't like romcoms as much as I think I do?

I did like this book, but I found myself pushing through when maybe I should have just DNF'd. I do love Olivia Dade for looking romance as a genre straight in the eye and showing it everything it's been lacking - she definitely writes for plus-sized women who deserve to see themselves represented in the genre more than they are at the moment.

I typically like mixed media in books, but in this one and in Spoiler Alert, her use of mixed media really brought me out of the story. 9 times out of 10 I skip the fanfics and chats and emails she includes in her books.

If you like romcoms and fanfiction, this series might be for you - but, like I said, I just don't think I like romcoms as much as I thought I did?

This was a wonderful follow-up to Spoiler Alert with two characters that I really enjoyed. The conflict felt a bit forced and unrealistic, but the book overall was a fun read!