Another great installment of the Spoiler Alert series from Olivia Dade. I thoroughly enjoyed Peter and Maria's story, and I liked that the plot was a bit of a departure from the other Spoiler Alert books in that their story doesn't take place over a few weeks or months, but rather years. It was great to get to follow their relationship as it grew!

Highly recommend this book (and everything else by Dade!) if you're into steamy romance featuring fabulous fat ladies (and now a gentleman!).

Shipwrecked follows an actor and actress who hook up one night. The actress decides to leave early morning before she is seen, she leaves without a note or anything. The next day they are both auditioning for one of the most popular tv shows. For the next 6 years these two people will have to be costars.

I loved how the MC carried herself and didn’t let anyone walk over her. Being plus size I feel like people believe we have no confidence and are only insecure. I have seen plus size people be belittled because being fat “makes you less worthy”. I loved when the writers of the tv show were trying to change so much about the MC but she was having none of it. It’s so nice to see a plus size character who has accepted herself and doesn’t care who has a problem with it.

I loved the friendship and relationship between the two characters. I also thought it was so unique that we didn’t see them become friends it just jumped into when it was time for the romance. Sometimes I just want to get to the romance and skip some of the friendship developing.

Thank you to Netgalley for providing this ARC in exchange for an honest review.
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I really loved the idea of fat characters as I believe body diversity among books should be celebrated and more prevalent.

I really enjoyed this book to begin with. Started off strong but then wained a bit. It picked back up once the working relationship of Peter and Maria began to develop and I enjoyed the banter, filming scene descriptions, and growing tension. But if felt a bit anti-climatic when the characters got together before the book was halfway through. I guess I believed it’d be a slower burn because the development took so long. After the show is over the story continued but it was harder to follow for me. They meet the parents, discover more about the other, and so on.

I wanted to enjoy it more and I definitely think a lot of people will and did—I just didn’t fit that bill.

However, happy reading and I hope you enjoy Dade’s final book in this series!

The characters are larger-than-life and I liked the representation. As a romance novel reader, I don't often find characters that look like me (outside of the hopeless, sassy BFF) and it gets a little old. The characters even describe themselves as "fat." Fat is not a bad word.

Seeing people with bodies like mine find love and explore different kinds of romantic entanglements is refreshing and something I greatly respect this author for making a point of doing in her books. Should you read this? Yes! The writing is fresh, and the characters feel like real people- with interests, feelings, and insecurities tied to something other than their weight.

This. Freaking. Book. 😍

I don't remember Peter and Maria from the various cast chat blurbs from the first two books (sorry Peter and Maria!). They all sort of blur together (except for Ian, the King of Dickweeds, obvs). Still, when I read the blurb for this book I was so pumped! TWO fat leads! I feel like we're seeing more books with plus-sized heroines, but there's still a death of plus-sized male leads (which is really Peter's issue with his career in a nutshell, isn't it?). And while there is a bit of the plotline that revolves around their weight, that's not the main focus of the book (and Maria is SO badass, she basically kicks that plotline right in the teeth). More fat romances, please!! :)

The chemistry between Maria and Peter is AH-MAZING. I didn't care for Peter at first because he was kind of an a-hole, and I was like "oh boy, he's going to have to go through some major character growth to redeem himself." And you know what, dear reader? He sure did. Maria also goes through a lot of personal growth throughout the book - she is such a strong, confident, bad-ass beam of light, but she's got her own internal broken edges she needs to work through as well.

Ship Wrecked takes place concurrently with the first two books in the Spoiler Alert series, especially considering it spans several years (though the middle years area sort of fade to black, time skip deal). Some of the dramatic events in the second half of the book take place in the same time and space as dramatic events in the first two books in the series, Spoiler Alert and All the Feels. Since the first two books are also incredibly amazing, while this technically could be read as a standalone, I recommend reading the series in order to avoid spoilers for the first two books that are in this one.

Ship Wrecked wraps up some other subplots among the other cast relationships, so it seems this will likely be the last book in the Spoiler Alert universe. I do, however, hear some twitterings about a short story featuring two of the other cast mates... :)

This book was not my favorite, however, it was objectively not bad. I think there will be some people who really enjoy this. It just wasn't for me.

Olivia Dade has my heart with the Spoiler Alert series and that extends to this third installment, Ship Wrecked.

I've said it once and I'll say it again - big girl romance is my JAM. Plus, this one comes with a "thick-thighed Viking co-star" and ummm, excuse me, has anyone seen my church fan?? This book is 100% fantastic fat representation.

As with the other books in the series, this story follows the actors in the popular Game of Thrones-esque television show, Gods of the Gates. However, these two stars - Maria and Peter, film remotely on a secluded island so they're definitely not as involved with the other characters we've grown to love. Dade employs several mini-chapters that are group-texts between all the stars to still feel like they are a part of the larger cast.

Also I've grown to hate the showrunners in this book series (as we all have) and I seriously almost scowled with the new Game of Thrones spinoff, House of Dragons premiered and the showrunner was interviewed at the end. I'm sure they're perfectly lovely, but this series has unfortunately brainwashed me against them. :)

What Olivia Dade does well that makes her romances infinitely more fun to read is the dialogue. It feels natural and biting and sarcastic and flirty, whereas others leave me feeling corny and cringey. Admittedly, there have been a few jokes that have been overused in this series, but I still find it enjoyable to read.

Ship Wrecked ⚓️
➖release date: November 15th
➖rating: 5/5 ⭐️’s
➖spice level: 2.5/5 🌶’s

In case this absolutely gorgeous (!!) cover somehow doesn’t convince you to read “Ship Wrecked”, pls allow me to change your mind with this review, because this book is S P E C T A C U L A R and every romance lover needs to read it 🥹

“Ship Wrecked” follows the same(ish) timeline as both “Spoiler Alert” and “All the Feels” and it centers around Gods of the Gates’ two newest stars, Peter & Maria. After a super hot one night stand turns sour when Maria sneaks out in the middle of the night, she and Peter find out they’re going to be Gods of the Gates co-stars. Co-stars who have to spend the next six years filming on a remote Irish island and ignoring their ever-growing feelings towards each other so that they don’t ruin the dynamic on set. But after spending six long years dripping in sexual tension, there’s only so much more these two can take before their restraint finally snaps 🔥

what you’ll find in “Ship Wrecked”:
➖a surly viking-esque hero 🥵🛡
➖a strong & confident swedish goddess 🇸🇪
➖two (!!) fat main characters 🫶🏻
➖one night stand ⮕ friends ⮕ lovers 🛏💗
➖the best (!!) gods of the gates cast group chats 💬
➖a+ found family vibes! ❤️‍🩹

Peter & Maria are my absolute favorite couple in this series! 😭 Peter in particular really touched something deep within my lonely, introverted heart and his character just felt very personal to me. Maria was also an incredible (!!) heroine and the perfect sunshine-y counterpart to Peter’s surliness! They both have rocky pasts that really drive their choices throughout most of the story, but the growth that they experience because of it is so wonderfully heartwarming! 🥹

“Ship Wrecked” is a book that (quite literally) opens with a bang and yet still manages to be a torturous slow burn that you won’t be able to put down! I’m so so sad that this series is over, but also so overjoyed that Peter & Maria’s story was the one to close it out 💗

Thank you so much to @avonbooks for gifting me an arc in exchange for an honest review!

Olivia Dade writes such beautiful, warm characters whose love you root for from beginning to end. Ship Wrecked is a lovely addition to her Spoiler Alert series, and it builds on its themes of body acceptance, fat representation in pop culture, and fandom. I'm not sure why it took me so long to finish it — unlike the first two installments in the series, I put it down for weeks at a time between reading sections. I think I struggled with the timeline pacing; it has some time jumps that make it hard to follow the development of the relationship. But Dade's voice as author is funny, compassionate and original on every page. Fans of the series will not be disappointed.

This book was good but I didn't love it. The premise is the two main characters meet and hook up right from the first page, then Maria ghosts Peter the next morning. Later in the day it turns on they are auditioning to play love interests in a very Game of Thrones-esque TV show. They're both cast and will be filming on location in a small island village in Ireland. The book has a lot of elements of fan fiction, fandom, and similar complaints about the showrunners as in Game of Thrones. There is a lot of pining and slow burn.

I really loved the fat rep and all of the scenes involving Maria's Swedish family and the family she creates with their coworkers during their on location shoots. I loved that there was a big emphasis on the importance of other family/relationships outside of a romantic relationship. However, I felt like the pacing was off. At one point there is a huge time jump and I almost missed the cue of the time jump and was hella confused for a bit. Once the main characters got together it felt like the story felt really distant and not as warm as before. The 180 from Peter during the conflict also didn't make that much sense to me and felt out of nowhere. I also felt quite a lot of distance from the main characters, and didn't connect with them that much. I noticed sometimes it felt like a lot of telling rather than showing.

I love a slow burn full of pining and Olivia Dade's <i>Ship Wrecked</i> definitely delivers on that front. And the fact that it starts mid-sex scene and still develops into 6 years of pining? Inspired!

The book follows Maria and Peter, two actors who have a one night stand then end up getting cast together for many seasons of a successful fantasy action television series. Not only that, but they're filming on a small island with a small crew and they're the only two actors. A perfect formula for forced proximity angsting!

Dade uses fanfiction and conventions to build out the show and its fandom. It adds a fun texture to the book beyond just telling the straightforward story of the two main characters.

This book had a lot of things I liked, but there were still a few drawbacks. While I usually love a found family vibe, I felt like all of the characters in this book (mainly the co-stars of the show) were super familiar with each other right away in a way that didn't feel very natural to me. I might have liked a little bit more if there was a bit more development in those supporting. relationships rather than an insta-family. I also struggled a little bit with Peter's anger at the beginning of the book. Although it's explained later on, it still made it very hard to like him and he's a main characters so that was a bit of a drag.

All of that being said, I still loved the pining and the steamy scenes were super fun to read! I also thought it was very cool to read a romance novel with two sexy, fat protagonists. There's definitely not a lot of body diversity in romance, so this was great to read!

Thanks to Avon and NetGalley for the ARC!

3.5 stars - Bonus points for starting a romance mid-thrust of a one night stand - and somehow still making the book a slow burn. I'm not sure the elements all came together to make this a home run, but I really did enjoy our main characters! Maria in particular was so compelling to follow, and I believed the chemistry between her and Peter.

I enjoyed this book but it wasn't what I was expecting it to be. I have read a couple of other Olivia Dade books and had been eagerly waiting for another. I thought this would be similar to those I had previously read. I wanted it to be a romance about a man falling in love with a fat woman and while this book did have fat characters it wasn't really central to the book's plot or the central romance. I was disappointed at first, but I did enjoy the book for what.it was despite that. I could eagerly recommend it to my library patrons.

I'm new to this series but when I saw it on NetGalley, I took a chance. I really enjoyed this rom-com. It had some great depth, interesting characters, and a ton of steam.

Maria and Peter have one hot night together, and the next morning they discover they are new co-stars in a high fantasy show. Although the attraction is there, they decide to not pursue a relationship since they will be in a tight work environment for the next six years. Fast forward six years later and they are finally ready to make a go of it. But will they be able to last?

Ship Wrecked was a spicy, sweet book. I loved the body positivity message that this book exuded. Peter and Maria were both charming characters and I loved how they brought out the best of each other. Their chemistry was also smokin' hot. I loved the slow burn aspect of their story and their banter was adorable.

There are a couple of things that prevented me from pushing this book into five star territory. One, although it's not necessary, I think a reader's enjoyment would be enhanced if you had read the previous books in this series, especially with the content toward the end of the book. Two, <spoiler> Maria was a bit unreasonable for me in the third act conflict. She did end up working through those thoughts but her "my way or the highway" approach wasn't my favorite. Communication is good. </spoiler>

I would definitely read more Olivia Dade! This book was delightful and a perfect escape read with a little something extra.

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

Ahhhhhh this book! omfg

First off I have to say that the fact that they are costars is just *mwah* chefs kiss
So much sexual tension and so many sweet moments even before they admit their feelings for each other.
I personally fell that somehow... the Spoiler Alert books just get better and better. I loved book one...loved book two and this book was OMFG sooooo good.
Peter and Marias banter is one of the many reasons I love them as a couple and as individuals.
the way Maria stands her ground in any argument and refuses to sway even if it could cost her her job and/or money is something i love to see. a strong independent woman that doesn't need anyone to fight her battles for her! YES PLEASE.
SPOILERS AHEAD
Peters character was stubborn until the end on his views and I'm glad Maria got through to him. The breakup was so annoying and I almost threw my phone. I know it needed to happen or Peter wouldn't have fully understood Marias stubbornness on the situation but omg he made me so mad. If he had just fully listened to her he could've prevented so many tears (Marias and mine). I like seeing more of the characters from the other books in the text chains and such, it fills my heart with happiness.
Ramón and Nava throughout the story was also a touch I very much appreciated and I was rooting for them the whole time haha.
Overall such an amazing book and I wouldn't expect anything less from Olivia. ❤

Thank you to NetGalley, Avon, and Harper Voyager for this ARC in exchange for an honest review!

I enjoyed the other books in the Spoiler Alert series, so I was excited to get to read the next story in the series. I love how all the books in this series deal with body positivity. It was written so well in Ship Wrecked.

The chemistry between Maria and Peter was excellent. I like how they started with a one-night stand that turns them into enemies, but they grow to something more throughout the story. Olivia Dade wrote this slow burn brilliantly. It wasn't too slow or rushed at all. When the characters get together, it is in the perfect place.

Overall, Ship Wrecked was a very enjoyable, charming, and fun read. I recommend this book if you love slow-burn romances and ones in the world of celebrities. I can't wait to see what Olivia Dade writes about next.

Thank you to NetGalley and publisher for allowing me to read this ARC!

I love Olivia Dade and I knew going in that this book would be good but I wasn’t expecting to be AMAZING! Dade is known for their fat representation well we got TWO FAT CHARACTERS! That’s right, TWO! Both the female and male characters are plus sized and I had a fit upon first reading! So, right away I’m hooked!

It follows the Gods of the Gates/celebrity universe like Dade’s two previous books. It opens up to these two strangers, Peter and Maria, who have just had a one night stand. Maria leaves the next morning but they find themselves having to do a script read with one another at an audition for the show Gods of the Gates. Despite any animosity Peter might feel toward Maria for leaving that morning they land the show and over the span of six years still harbor feelings for the other.

You get a sneak peek at the other characters from the previous books and just how big of a family all the characters are! It’s so wholesome and these are by far my two favorite characters! Also, for any Swedish people out there, you’ll have some fun with Maria! Some things regarding Sweden got a little bit too much (the jar of pickled herring always popping out) but I’m not sure if that’s just because I’m not Swedish and don’t get the joke. But I still enjoyed the banter. It’s definitely lovers to enemies to lovers. When this book comes out I am telling you, you need to READ IT! ASAP! 😊💕

This was an excellent follow-up to Spoiler Alert and All The Feels. So charming and sweet and spicy and funny! The ongoing Sweden vs. America conversation is hilarious. There are several highly amusing appearances by cast members Marcus (from Spoiler Alert) and Alex (from All The Feels). I really enjoyed the cast’s group texts; they were delightful. Another of my favorite things in the book was all the references to AO3 and RPF. Too real. 😂

Maria is a great character. She’s brave, kind, and strong. She’s very close with her family and is willing to put her money where her mouth is when it comes to her beliefs. And Peter is the socially awkward introvert who was way too relatable for me. They both had extremely interesting and heart-rending backstories that flesh out their characters really well and believably inform their actions later in the book. I appreciated how much influence Dade allowed their traumatic childhoods to have on their adult lives. That’s not something that gets acknowledged or incorporated enough, in my opinion.

Overall, This is a very sweet love story between two really lovely characters. I love how Dade presented Peter & Maria’s difficult backstories; it was sensitively done and added a lot to the characters. It was fun getting to see the other cast mates again. Ship Wrecked can absolutely be read as a stand alone but since it overlaps chronologically with the other two books, I think it will be an especially satisfying read for those who’ve read them. (The epilogue is fantastic!) I enjoyed it very much!

*ARC Review*

I really enjoyed this book! The characters were really fun and vivacious and the story was interesting. I enjoyed the opening meet cute and how the two main characters were reintroduced. The book was action packed (even though they were on an island with few people for most of it) and had a nice storyline. I loved how Maria's extroverted nature beautifully mirrored Peter's introverted tendencies. They worked really well for each other and it made me root for them until the very end.

It is a fast read with plenty of humor and love. Great book!

I was given this ARC by NetGallery in exchange for my honest review and opinion. Thank you Olivia Dade for such an incredible story - and holy smokes did that GORGEOUS cover draw me in!

I loved Maria and Peter! Olivia did an amazing job with character development, and OMG the ANGST in this one! The chemistry between these two was simply electric, and I could not get enough of it! I loved that Olivia created such awesome plus-sized characters in this story. We don't see enough of that! It doesn't define them, but it is a character description worth noting. It is clear that Peter is not comfortable in his own skin, and vulnerable moments really are part of what make a character lovable. I love how they empowered one another in such a pressured work environment!

This story had me laughing out loud, blushing, and cheering for these two. They both have a lot of respect for each other, and I love the one night stand to friends vibe. Sometimes when you least expect it - you find someone incredible. And is definitely the case as they are cast off to an isolated island for filming!

Definitely check out books 1 and 2 of the Spoiler Alert series!