Thank you so much to Oliva Dade, Avon & NetGalley for an advance copy of this!

This book is the 3rd book in the Spoiler Alert series and follows Maria and Peter as they embark on filming on a remote island for 6 years. They had a brief hook up and each thought they would never see one another again but fate had other plans.

I wanted to like this book more. There were parts that I really enjoyed and then other areas that I felt could have been eliminated or edited down. I just couldn't connect with the two MCs and their love for one another.

The first half took me longer than I had expected to get through but it really picked up for me in the 2nd half. Even though the conflict in the 2nd half seemed a little juvenile and I got really annoyed with Maria over it, the conflict helped propel the text for me. They both were being selfish in that moment but I took Peter's side in the argument.

One thing I love about Olivia and will always be a fan of is that she has a wonderful way of writing about plus size characters. This one not only had a female plus size MC but a plus size man. Which honestly I think he may be the hottest MC out of all the 3 books - beard, check, belly, check! There was very minimal fatphobia and was shut down immediately. Both MCs were comfortable in their body which made it so refreshing to read. Their characters could just be them and have it not be something between them.

I don't think this was as spicy as her prior books but that doesn't mean this didn't lack any spice. The book started off with a sex scene right in the first chapter when we met the 2 MCs as a one night stand.

I also paired this book with the audio and Kelsey Narravo is such a good narrator. She was able to give Maria & Peter their own voice give them some texture.

This wasn't my fave but don't just consider my review. Other book friends love this book.
I still will recommend this series to romance friends.

I also love that we got a sprinkle of our former MCs sprinkled throughout the book. I have missed Marcus, April, Alex and Lauren! I am very excited to see what is next for Olivia.

Rating: 3.5 stars

This book was not my favorite of Olivia Dade's. I was very excited for the premise but it fell a bit flat for me. The book came off very preachy at times.

TW: Fatphobia, mysogony, parental death

I think my love for Olivia Dade is back! After loving Spoiler Alert but absolutely loathing All the Feels I wasn't too sure what to expect with Ship Wrecked but thankfully I enjoyed it!

Ship Wrecked is the third installment in the Spoiler Alert series and I believe the last. It stars Peter Reedton, an introverted burly actor who has always had trouble being able to talk to people, even his friends. He's always had a deep love for acting but hasn't quite landed the leading man role that he's dreamed of yet. After a one-night stand with Maria, a sexy, confident and curvy Swede he meets at an LA sauna, Peter is dismayed and angry that she left him without so much as a goodbye just like his ex-fiance did. To both of their surprises Maria and Peter have just been cast together to star on the new show Gods of the Gates and potentially could be working together for years...awkward!

I really enjoyed Maria's character, she was so strong and confident and assertive in what she knew would make her happy. She had no qualms about her body (I imagine being plus sized and in the Hollywood scene is filled with challenges because there are always ignorant people willing to put someone down) and she continally fights for her rights and the rights of her fellow actors to not be bullied around by the showrunners. I also really liked Peter, I resonnated with his introverted awkwardness so much but he was also so sweet and adorable and pretty much fell for Maria after one night. They both have their hangups influenced by events in their past but I thought they way they helped each other through them was great.

Although I liked the characters I felt the timing in the book was kind of clunky. I didn't understand the need for a 6 year time jump, I would've liked to see more of Maria and Peter's friendship develop on page instead of just instant besties with supressed sexual desires. I enjoyed the way things were on the island setting and thought the whole book could've taken place there. This one was 400 pages and I think it could've been told in 300...lots of unnecessary descriptions and tangents from the author.

Other than that this book was highly enjoyable. The spice was fantastic and the chemistry of the characters was believable and adorable. I thought the trials they went through were also realistic for their professions. Overall very good read that can be acomplished in one or two sittings.

Thank you so much to Avon and HarperVoyager for providing me with an eARC via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

I'm not going to lie the only reason I requested this book on Netgalley was because of the author, as I've heard A LOT of amazing things about Olivia Dade's books. I didn't know anything else about this book. However, I was gripped from the very beginning of this book until the very end. I think Olivia Dade's writing is just so easy and fun to read. It's also super addictive. I always enjoy a famous people romance and this was no exception. I always just think it's so much fun and larger than life. However, this book also has some really great depth to it. Both of our main characters have some issues that stem from their childhood that come into play amazingly in this book. I thought those issues were really well dealt with and made these characters feel more real. Besides our two main characters I also quite liked our set of side characters. They were really fun and really brought the story to life. I also really adored the fandom culture aspects in this book, especially because it's all written from the perspectives of celebrities. I thought it was all really fun. The only thing I didn't really like was the third act conflict. I thought it was stupid and just absolutely full of hypocrisy. Now the resolution does adress my issues with the conflict but overall I still feel annoyed that it even happened at all.

I adored Ship Wrecked. It's a treat having two fat main characters, and I loved how complex and real they both felt. The book has an unusual structure for a one night stand trope. Because the couple periodically film on the same island together, we get a series of time jumps so we only see them together on the island, with hints of their lives away in between. I thought this was really effective because it allowed the couple to build a deeper relationship without the story saggy in the middle. But I loved them so much that I would have been happy to read several more chapters of them just being friends and pranking each other. The book ties up threads from the other couples in the series and was an emotionally satisfying end.

I loved Spoiler Alert and All the Feels, the first two books in Olivia Dade's series about the stars of Gods of the Gates, a wildly popular tv series clearly modeled on Game of Thrones, down to the disastrous show-runners. Body diversity and positivity has certainly an important theme in the series, but in Ship Wrecked, it takes center stage. Are either of these main characters actual people, or just stand-ins for the author to lecture the reader about how badly fat people are treated in Hollywood (is anyone surprised?) and how losing weight rapidly is dangerous for your body? Is it believable that someone would go scorched earth for months in response to someone bailing on a one-night stand? Or that two people who are extremely attracted to each other, like each other as human beings, and live together on an island for much of the year for over half a decade [spoiler removed]? The main characters honestly never read to me as real people, and their choices made little sense to me. The writing was hilarious, but because I couldn't connect with anyone in the book at a human level, it felt like empty laughter. I couldn't take the endless will they/won't they, or maybe they will but will they really, by the time I got to 40%. This book rang hollow for me, and I just didn't feel it was worth persevering.

I can't recall the last time I read a novel with two plus size love interests. I am not sure I ever have! I have really enjoyed Olivia Dade's Gods of the Gates series. She Wrecked is humorous and romantic.

I am obsessed with this series. This series has been a favorite since the very 1st book. I love we add on to the original story with the return to Gods of the Gates cast. This time we are focusing on 2 new cast members that didn't film with the original cast they were off on a island alone.
Maria And Peter meet before there audition and have a one night stand which she leaves before he wakes up only to see each other in casting the next day.

Not only do they get casted opposite each other they will be living on a remote island during filming for the next 6 years.

To say there is tension is a understatement. He still is upset over her ghosting him and yet he still has feelings and she knows she hurt him but didn't interested in rocking the boat of there working relationship so she try's to keep the peace.

Six years is a long time to want someone when your stuck together. And when we finally get to the we can be together there has to be more road blocks! but we finally get the HEA they deserve.

What I love about this series they always have body positivity in the main characters the best thing is both Maria and Peter are plus size and are leading actors and I love that. Maria out of all the leading ladies in this series embraces her weight her look and she will not change her morals for anyone. I love the scene where she wont diet and says replace me then. ICON! that mind set was everything!

This was such a fun return to some familiar faces. The cast of Gods of the Gates the banter they all have his kept me smiling throughout, just like the previous books. I so love this series!


Thanks to Netgalley and Avon Harper Voyager for the ARC in exchange for my honest review.
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This was a really good book. I absolutely loved the body positivity and confidence the main character Maria exhibits. Maria is from Sweden and Peter is living in LA. They hookup and he wakes up to Maria gone, without a note. What are the chances they will meet again? Well they do in an audition for a TV show. They both land the roles they audition for and spend years working together. Peter is so enduring and awkward. Maria is confident and caring. They compliment each other perfect.
*thank you to NetGalley for the eARC in exchange for an honest review.

This is the third book in a series that features actors in a long running TV series called Gods of the Gates based on Greek and Roman mythology. I've read all three books and they were all funny, romantic and memorable. I appreciated that the two main characters in this book and characters in some of the other books were not always beautiful people with perfect bodies.

Peter has been an actor for years with mixed results, and has finally landed an audition for co-star in the immensely popular Gods of the Gates series. Peter wants the reputation and the financial security the role will bring. He is in his thirties and on the heavy side for an actor, and landing this role is everything for him. He meets a lovely, also heavyset Swedish woman named Maria, and they spend a memorable weekend together. Maria has a loving supportive family behind her, and Peter does not.

Imagine his surprise when she is also auditioning for a spot on the show - as his co-star, for a show that will run for six years. Peter doesn't want a relationship between them when they have to work so closely together for so long. His reasoning is that the fallout if they broke up would make it harder for them to do their job, and the show is the most important thing to him for the next six years. Not Maria.

Maria is a hoot. I love how she constantly threatens people with a jar of fermented herring, which I assume is pretty nasty if you didn't grow up eating it. Peter and Maria's romance does not run smoothly, with the six year pause while they work on the show, and even after the show ends, when Peter manages to persuade Maria to see him again. They still have the same issue: Peter's craving for security even if it isn't a good fit for either of them.

It was a delight to have characters from the earlier books appear in this one. This book can be read as a standalone. I received a review copy of this book from publisher Avon and Harper Voyager via NetGalley. All opinions are my own.

This is my first Olivia Dade book and now I need to read her backlist because WOW! Imagine two fat actors were cast on Game of Thrones, had to film scenes on a remote island just the two of them with only a handful of cast members present, for six years, and finally can be together now that they’re no longer working together… if they can reconcile their personal baggage and logistics issues!

One of the things I really loved was how both leads were fat and fully accepting of their own bodies and each others. There was very minor fat shaming from outside parties either. The main character Maria talks about wanting to play roles as an actress where being fat isn’t treated as the character’s main personality trait and it felt like Dade wrote a book with fat characters where that’s also not their main character trait. I so appreciated that!!

Olivia Dade’s books are addictively readable for me — once I start one I know I won’t be able to put it down until I’ve finished, even at the risk of my own sleep schedule. But this one was just so engrossing from start to finish! I really enjoyed the story concept of this romance taking place across the backdrop of the previous two books in the series, this secret on-set romance that was hidden from everyone else until the end. And truly, what made Peter and Maria’s romance so refreshing is it had nothing to do with their relationship being outed or exposed externally, but the more intimate dilemma of how to balance their careers with their futures together. This book took some risks — the time jump, the trajectory of their love story — and I was here for every single one of them. I hope this isn’t the last of the series (Carah and Summer’s book maybe?), but if it is I was immensely pleased by how this wrapped everything up.

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

THIS WAS THE CUTEST.

I, a former Game of Thrones fan, will never not be amused by Olivia Dade's ability to channel her rage at the series' end into a three-book romcom series. This book didn't have a heavy plot to it and was driven almost entirely by character development.

Peter, a fat man and twenty-year Hollywood veteran, has been waiting his entire career to make it big. Despite his talent, he's never been seen as leading man material—that is, until Gods of the Gates casts him as Cyprian. Maria, a Swedish theater actress, is unapologetically herself. She has no interest in bending to the whims of Hollywood body shaming and misogyny, and her confidence attracts Peter immediately. They hook up for one night, but then she leaves... until they're cast as love interests on the same show the very next day.

The book takes place over a six-year timespan, with Peter and Maria going from lovers to annoyances to friends to lovers over the course of the story. The conflict is driven by their opposite perspectives on the movie industry and their childhood traumas—but also on their mutual desire for love and companionship.

Not gonna lie, if you weren't a GoT fan or never went through a fanfiction phase, there WILL be parts of this book where you're going to mentally black out. I, fortunately, was both, so I adored it <3

This series is just incredible and empowering. The first two books begin as enemies to lovers and as celebrity romances (and a bit of workplace romance too) – but this one started off as a fling, then to enemies, then to friends, then to lovers. It was also a workplace romance and a found family story at that.

Both Maria and Peter have so much emotional baggage to work through, that staying apart for the first half of the book does make sense. But it’s also a classic grumpy/sunshine where she tries to incorporate him into her optimistic happy bubble, and he loves it.

Toward the end, as they jumped forward in time a bit, it felt as though it dragged on a little bit – incorporating all of their coworkers and while listening to it, it was a bit too much all at once.

That said, this book was wonderful and I truly enjoyed both reading it and listening to it.

I really enjoyed the banter and friends to enemy aspect in Ship Wrecked. It was a nice, light read for me after reading several thriller, dark reads.
Plus sized characters? So nice to actually read a story where the characters aren’t all super thin.
Definitely a refreshing, funny and cute read.
Thank you to NetGalley, the publisher and author for the opportunity to read this book for my honest review. All opinions expressed are my own.

I really enjoyed this book! After reading the two previous books in the series, I found this one to be a little repetitive. I'd love to see this author branch out a little more in terms of what her books are about.

This book was so good. Maria and Peter have a chance meeting and one night stand. Then they are forced to work together for the next six years. After their series wraps, they finally try to be together. I was so into reading about a main character who has a body like me. My only complaint is I wish we got to see more from the six years of slow burn.

I had read and loved the previous book and was quite eager to read this one.

I liked Maria and Peter well enough. On the surface, they're opposites, but they both just want a sense of belonging and family. There was some great banter and a good amount of chemistry, yet it still felt a bit one dimensional.

Plot wise, it was sloooooow. I struggled with the time jump (apparently I missed it and had to go back to find the mention). There was a lot a lot a lot of inner monologue and I wanted more conversation. Of course, I did love the group chats and seeing all of them together.

Overall, this was a fun story, but didn't quite hit the mark for me.

**Huge thanks to the publisher for providing the arc free of charge**

oh my god, this book was fantastic. The pining, the tension, the everything. This was the first book I've read by Olivia Dade and I already know I need to go back and read the others in this series and her backlist. I absolutely loved the fat representation in this (especially since both male and female MCs were fat). Normally, you only see the female or male MC as fat, but this had both and I LOVED that. Yes, for wanting a guy with a little more meat on the bones! I can't wait to read more from Olivia Dade.

Olivia Dade has done it again! She is the QUEEN of fat positive representation. Her characters are whole people, motivated by love and pain, insecurity and loss. As much as it is a romance, it is also a story about the power of friendship. Peter and Maria’s story swept me away!