This one unfortunately was a miss for me. I loved the other two books in the series, particularly Alex’s book, but this one was my least favorite of the bunch. It still had all of Olivia Dade’s trademarks that make me enjoy her stories, like the mentions of fanfiction, the steamy scenes, etc. But I could not form a bond with these characters. The miscommunication/conflict was something that I was frustrated by and I had a hard time agreeing with either of them in those situations. Overall I would still recommend this to those who want to delve back into the Gods of the Gates world and want to experience two fat main characters and some decent spice.

Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for sending me this eARC in exchange for an honest review.

The Spoiler Alert series has been so much fun and this third installment was no exception. The book follows Peter and Maria, who after a disastrous one-night stand, must spend the next six years filming together on a remote Irish island. The book follows their relationship over the years as it builds from enemies to friends, to something more. I really enjoyed how Peter and Maria were both a bit older than a typical couple in a romance book. The result was two, well-developed characters who knew themselves and were intentional and thoughtful in their decisions. The found family between the cast and crew added another layer of warmth to an already lovely book.

I absolutely loved Spoiler Alert and All the Feels - but Ship Wrecked left me wanting. I think my biggest issue was that it takes place within the timeline of pervious novels and my brain just wasn’t accepting that. The romance was lacking and time jumps awkward.
Still, I love Olivia Dade’s writing style and can’t see what she comes up with next! Keeping my fingers crossed for another novel in the Gods of the Gates universe.

Thank you to NetGalley and Avon and Harper Voyager for the complimentary copy in exchange for my honest review.

4.5⭐️

After an amazing one night stand that leaves Peter hurting after Maria sneaks out without saying goodbye, the two stumble upon each other at an audition for the same show. Peter, an experienced actor who’s still sour about Maria’s sneaky exit, is petty towards her and says that there’s no way she’ll get the part opposite him because she’s a theater actor, not a Hollywood actor. Maria proves him wrong, and the two are stuck on an island together filming their new show, <i>Gods of the Gates</i>.

While filming, they become friends and one night almost risk their friendship, and the relationships with the crew they’ve developed, when they almost sleep together again. Instead, they decide to remain friends despite both of them wanting more. They remain good friends for the six years of filming, and the book shows little details of the two of them sticking up for each other and having fun together. Finally, when the show ends, they can try being together for real.

This is a lovers to enemies to friends to lovers book, and it’s great and so much more realistic! I love both Maria and Peter’s characters and who they are together. Maria is fierce and stands her ground, including refusing to lose weight for the role and refusing to conform to modern beauty standards like the show-runners try to force her to. Peter’s character development from quiet and guarded to caring and sociable is really great, too, and really shows his growth. In the end, he finds that his career isn’t as important as he once thought it was and that he was trying prove his decision to be an actor to his father and to himself.

The only thing I did not love about this book is the third act breakup. It was very over the top and dramatic - but! They both realize they were being kind of dumb and do come back together and do have a redeeming conversation about their expectations and values in a relationship. Overall, this is a super fun and steamy read. And there’s no pregnancy trope which is awesome!!!

<b> “Someone like me,” she repeated. “I love you, Peter. You’re my beloved skitstövel. Do you want me to find a house in Hollywood, or would you rather I stay with you?”</b>

Thank you NetGalley and Avon and Harper Voyager for allowing me to read this book! Olivia dade has this way of giving you a cozy read. I feel so relaxed and happy reading her books! This book was so sweet! I love introverted Peter and spicy Maria’s love story. I will say the only thing I couldn’t connect with is the time change I guess I just never felt like it had been 6 years. I do really like the tension between the characters! This book started out strong for me but just lost its spark after about halfway through.

Thank you to Olivia Dade, NetGalley, and Avon Books for an ARC of this glorious third installment!

Peter cannot believe the woman who rocked his world last night is now his costar ... on a tiny island where the two of the them will be filming for the foreseeable future. Maria cannot believe she got this new role and won't be pulling any punches. Can the two of them work through their differences as they play star crossed lovers or are they destined for destruction?

As always, Olivia Dade hits it with the poignant characters and the spice. I loved the lovers to enemies to friends to lovers (lotta tropes in there) but it felt very natural given the length of the book and the timeline for Gods of the Gates. Honestly, the time skips were well done and delightful to see the growth within. Peter stands in line for second favorite Dade lead (Marcus was perfect) but Maria Iverrson is everything I want in a leading lady. Thick, uncompromising, loving, caring, all of wrapped up in Swedish delight.

Truly, a glorious piece of fiction.

Ship Wrecked is the third installment of the Spoiler Alert series. Dade starts of this romp of a novel with a very steamy sex scene. It is definitely hot and heavy. As a fan of sexual tension and a build through the story, it was a bit jarring. I think I may have uttered "Okay...wow...okay". Right after we are thrown into the story.

After a very steamy one night stand, Maria and Peter receive roles on the very popular Gods of Gates tv show. They are thrown together and have to navigate the repercussions of that night, mainly Maria walking out without so much as a word or goodbye. Now working together in close proximity on an isolated island, they are forced to confront the events of that night and the lingering sexual tension between them.

Ship Wrecked was a really good read. I don't think I enjoyed it as much as the previous two novels, but there was still plenty of spice and humor. Maria and Peter have a lot of chemistry and passion. Even better, they are two very well rounded characters. They seem real and genuine. The character development is there as well. I really liked their story. It's filled with plenty of swoon worthy moments, sexy hot passion, and a lot of laugh out loud humor. While I loved the characters I found at times the pacing could be a little slow. At times I felt as if paragraphs of text could have been condensed to keep the story moving. Despite that, I really liked this book. It's a strong third book of the series filled with some really nice character driven moments.

Thank you to NetGalley and Avon for an ARC of this book. All opinions in this review are my own.

This is the third book in the Spoiler Alert series by Olivia Dade and while it was my least favorite of the three it was still SUPER cute. Olivia Dade is a phenomenal writer and the books in this series are both heart wrenching and heartwarming at the same time. The representation in this book (LGBTQIA+, fat, ethnicities, etc.) is fantastic, and each character is well developed. I like that each book in this series can be read as a standalone but it is nice to read them in order since it helps add to the understanding of the character connections. While I did start to get annoyed that Maria and Peter wouldn't just talk to each other at times, it was, objectively, realistic - albeit annoying. It is a sweet series and I hope there are more books. If there aren't, I very much look forward to the next book Olivia releases.

I am really enjoying this series about the Gods of the Gates stars! Peter and Maria are co-stars on the popular show and Ship Wrecked spans the entire time they have known each other… starting with when they first meet the night before auditions. I started off not liking Maria but she quickly became a favorite. I loved her No F*cks Given attitude towards the shows high ups who constantly try to belittle her. The way she embraces her body and her fame as a way to advocate more roles for plus size actors was awesome! I loved Peter, even though he had moments of douchiness it was easy to see all his fears and insecurities… and luckily he got his shit together by the end! Peter and Maria are my favorite so far but I can’t wait to see what comes next for this series!

I really enjoyed the first two books in this series, but this one just felt a little flat to me. I guess what it boils down to is I enjoyed the main characters from the other books more than I did Peter and Maria. I just didn’t vibe with either of them. But this book is still well written, and just like the others there is tons of body positivity (both characters are plus sized, and Maria normalizes women having body hair as well).

Thank you to NetGalley & Avon for this advance reader copy. All opinions are my own.

Olivia Dade delivers again in this hilarious and heartwarming third installment of the Gods of the Gates cast. Maria and Peter's story is such a slow build over time, showcasing trust, friendship, and personal growth. It was wonderful to revisit members of the cast (and previous books) in this book. A fat hero and heroine were also done so well and so powerfully! I cannot recommend this title enough.

* I received an ARC of this book from NetGalley. Thank you NetGalley and the publisher for this book. All thoughts are my own.

I’ll start with the positives: this was a really easy and quick read and Maria was a pretty strong character. I appreciated how she stuck up for herself and was very body positive. One thing I can absolutely appreciate about Olivia Dade’s books is her body positivity. I also thought the epilogue did a good job of wrapping up the series.

Here’s where I got lost: what the HECK was that 6 year time jump??? Their entire 6 year friendship/ relationship building is completely off page and we only find out that time has jumped when one of the characters mentions working on the show for the last six years. That was just not it for me. It made it so much harder to like them as a couple because we really don’t understand them. I also dont really understand why we got this couple last when their story starts way before the other 2 books in this series and then after the 6 years follows almost the exact timeline as the last 2 books. I thought Peter was fine, nothing super special about him.

Overall this book was just average to me and not my favorite. Would only recommend it if you absolutely loved the first two books in the series.

Omg loved it! This is my favorite book in the series. I loved the depth of both characters. The pinning. The love. The heart and humor 💗 I want to capture this feeling with every book.

Second-chance romance has always been my least favorite romance trope; I don't like it when characters already have so much past and backstory that the reader isn't included in, as it feels like we don't get to know them as much as couples that meet for the first time on-page. However, the structure of Ship Wrecked made this much less of an issue, since we start with our main couple's first meeting and understand their relationship dynamic by checking in on them at various points during the years they spend together in an isolated filming location. From there, we then get to see their dynamic develop all the way from one night stand to hurt feelings to strong friendship into eventual love. If this was a standalone, the second-chance romance aspect might have dissuaded me from picking it up, but since it's the third book in a series I really love (that focuses on the actors starring in a Game of Thrones-esque show, and features fat main characters), I was more than willing to give it a chance. And I'm so glad, because I would have really missed out on an emotional, funny, and enjoyable read if I hadn't. My favorite parts of this book were probably where we got to see glimpses of characters from past books, particularly in the Gods of the Gates cast group chat; I also loved confident, complex Maria as a main character.
I received an ARC of Ship Wrecked from the publisher in exchange for an honest review.

I was disappointed by this book. I enjoyed the first two books in this series, but "Ship Wrecked" didn't have the charm of the first two. Also, I never warmed up to Maria. She was written to be a strong woman, but for me, she was barreling over Peter's demand for what she wanted without thought for his needs. Their relationship lacked the spark found between the main characters in Dade's other books. I was looking forward to this book, but it didn't live up to my expectations.

I have really enjoyed this series, but for some reason Ship Wrecked took me forever to get through. I liked the MCs but I think the distance from the original characters made it feel so separate I struggled to connect. I might have been better as a new TV show that had not connection.
The relationship starting with a one-night stand was an interesting introduction that caused a lot of weird feelings for both characters. It was definitely interesting.
The growth of the characters was probably my favorite part of the story, seeing them grow into their strengths and help with each others weakness resonated with me.

Ship Wrecked is a continuation of the series Spoiler Alert, novels that all take place around the actors of a Game of Thrones like TV show. Each book is independent enough that you can read them separately but the characters from the other books have cameos in this one to see updates into their lives.

This book is about two actors: Maria and Peter. Carefree Maria and by-the-book Peter. They have a one night stand before they find out that they're supposed to act together in a TV series in which they will be stuck on an island together for long stretches of time.

This is a one night stand that turns into a sloooow burn. It's also a super cute and spicy, opposites attract (kinda grumpy/sunshine) that will have to rooting for them from page 1.

I read Spoiler Alert (first book in the series) 2 years ago and absolutely loved it, the body positivity, the refusal to get into the cliche misunderstandings, all of it worked perfectly for me. Especially that the main character was fat (not only that, she also had body hair! 😲), unapologetically so, kind of changed my idea of what a romance book could be, what it could do for its reader. It immediately became one of my favorite romances.

At least in terms of the body and sex positivity, this book is no different. I love the way the main character is so comfortable in her own skin and so clear with her boundaries and principals.

Putting the body positivity aside, their romance was great too. The humor, the banter, the chemistry... all A+!! I could read a whole other book filled with their banter, it was that good.

Where this book really shines is in its individual characters, their past, their baggage, their heart break. The emotions that drive them, molded by their past. Olivia Dade knows how to create real, three-dimensional characters. Their conversations around the more difficult aspects of their past really gripped me.

Maria is Swedish and I really enjoyed all the Sweden references here. The author lives there so it also felt real and almost like a peek into the author's humorous thoughts on the Swedish culture.

I didn't love the third act breakup in this one. The feelings seemed too exaggerated, and it escalated so fast. The redeeming aspect of it was that they also realized how silly it was to not try to compromise, but sometimes I just wish people wrote romances without a full on catastrophic third act breakup.

One thing that threw me off massively while reading this book is that there's a biiig time jump about the third of the way through. I really struggled with this. It completely threw off the pacing for me. And I almost wished we had just skipped the previous years in favor of the later ones, since they didn't seem to add *that* much anyways.

Peter, the main character is a very materialistic character. And personally I'm just not interested in characters like that, who value money and fame above other things. I understand his has his reasons for being how he is, but I still wish he came off more as a perfectionist/workaholic rather than materialistic, which would have kept the rest of the story, his baggage and his motivations the same.
I also didn’t appreciate how much of an asshole he was to Maria at the very beginning. It felt unnecessary.

Overall rating: 3.8⭐

Thank you to Avon Books and NetGalley for the eARC!

Love the rep and just a fun snowy and sexy story. Also using this as a place to show my support for the Harper Collins union. Thank you to Harper for the gifted ARC my honest review.

The grovel at the end of this book was very well done, that’s one thing I can say for sure. This book took me a while to read, but not because it wasn’t interesting. I really liked Maria and the group chats / interview sections between chapters, and I loved all the ribbing on what was obviously a stand-in for Game of Thrones. Great dialogue & humor too.

I didn’t much like Peter, and I REALLY disliked the time jumps. It wasn’t just the six-year time jump, which I thought was a horrible idea on Dade’s end, but miniature time jumps (weeks/months) in the beginning and at the end of the story. Too much was missing, in my opinion. We don’t get to see how the relationships grow.

Staci McIntyre wrote this review for her blog/podcast Lit Shit Podcast. This is a fun, charming, steamy read perfect for the beach! We have sex on the first page (yes thank you) turned slow burn when one night stands turn out to be cast opposites in a tv show.

Maria and Peter are really great characters. Especially Maria being so open, positive and comfortable being plus size and who she is. Sticking up for herself and other plus size people and knowing her worth. Peter is also plus size which is rare for a male MC and I loved that. The side characters crack me up! Overall I think this last installment in the series was great. Glad we even got an epilogue tying up all the standalone books and their characters.

My two real complaints was 1) that this book didn’t have any fanfic. I really enjoyed that aspect of the previous one and truly missed it. However I do think the scripts and tv filming filled a little bit of that gap just not enough and 2) their story plays out over a couple books which leaves a bit of a gap in their story in this book but I still enjoyed