Loved it. Ship Wrecked felt like a refreshing dessert of the Spoiler Alert series. While the first two books had drama and a rollercoaster of emotion, Ship Wrecked is sweet and comforting.

Olivia Dade does an excellent job of character development over the course of her books and that is definitely true here. I really liked the lovers to friends to lovers again relationship between Maria and Peter. It felt like a natural progression for them. The banter between Maria and Peter was absolutely perfect!

Thank you so much for the opportunity to read Ship Wrecked early! I throughly enjoyed it and I’m sure others will as well.

I’ve read all the books in this series and I keep waiting for them to feel repetitive or boring. I should stop worrying because Olivia Dade delivers every time. I adored both main characters and loved getting to see other couples whose books are finished. God bless Olivia- queen of the nerd romance.

I would happily read a spinoff book about every character in this universe. Olivia Dade is the reigning queen of fat romance and I especially love that both characters are fat in Ship Wrecked! I loved Maria and Peter and their sex scenes were perfection.

Olivia Dade does it again!! An excellent addition to the series. Like the previous book, this has a great combination of romance and character growth and this one is even more impressive considering the passage of time. I really love the characters of Peter and Maria and how their personalities just leap off the page. I really hope that epilogue was hinting at a Carah book coming next. As long as you're writing these, I'll be reading them!

WOW!!! Olivia Dade has done it again.

"Ship Wrecked" is the latest installment in her "Spoiler Alert" series, and it might just be her most complex to date. Following a mind-blowing one-night stand (talk about opening with a bang), Maria sneaks out of Peter's hotel room...only to discover that he's to be her co-star in the "Gods of the Gates" series. And because their storyline takes place while they're stranded on a remote island, he's going to be her ONLY co-star for the next six years. Despite the rocky start, that sexual tension never goes away, but they have to restrain themselves for the sake of their tiny, intimate film crew, which becomes a family.

Of course, they're going to discover that keeping their relationship professional while on-set is their easiest obstacle. They have polar-opposite approaches to their careers: Peter is desperate to solidify his place in Hollywood, while Maria is happy to be acting wherever she finds rewarding roles. There's also baggage from past relationships and family trauma to work through, too, and Maria and Peter will both have to break down the walls they've built if they want to make a proper go of things.

I'm obsessed with the way Dade writes fat characters. Their body size isn't some flaw they have to overcome; the love interest doesn't find them sexually attractive even despite and/or because of their size. They just...are. Maria is a self-confident woman who couldn't care less what Hollywood beauty standards dictate for her, and I appreciate that Peter himself isn't the "leading-man-2%-body-fat" type. (Marcus and Alex, from "Spoiler Alert" and "All the Feels," are both under that umbrella, so I liked the change up!)

But most importantly, Dade's romances always feel...real. They're real people, with different personalities and different issues, who have to work to make love happen for them in a real way. You can always root for her couples, and Maria and Peter are no exception here. (And if you want spice? HONEY! There were scenes that made me blush!!!)

All in all, it's a wonderful addition to one of my favorite romance series ever.

I’ve been waiting for this book, the last of Dade’s Gods at the Gate series. It was great and I especially enjoyed how much time was elapsed to build this relationship. It’s always fun to see the characters from the other books too, I wish we’d gotten a bit more of that. Highly recommend!

Thanks to NetGalley and Avon and Harper Voyager for this eARC.

OLIVIA DADE RULES.

I was so excited to get this one (and coincidentally reread the first two in this series for emotional comfort purposes earlier this week, so I WAS READY). My excitement was justified. Olivia Dade described this book on Twitter as "only one island," and I DID love the part of the book in which the main characters were filming on a remote Irish island (TAKE ME THERE). This book is just as sweet and fun and hot as the previous two entries. I particularly like the continued emphasis on the found family the cast has built over the run of this show. I want to hang out with them! Anyway, love these books! Hoping there will be at least one more!

I received an ARC in exchange for an honest review!

4.75/5 ⭐️s

Fat main characters. That was 95% of my excitement for this book going into it, but by the time I finished, it seemed like such a small selling point compared to the rest of the story (because it’s just that good).

Maria and Peter feel immediate sparks when they meet, and it’s only a few hours before they’re acting on that attraction. After spending the night together though, Maria leaves without saying goodbye…only to see Peter again when he’s cast as her co-star on Gods of the Gates. The co-star she’ll be filming with…on an isolated island…for six seasons.

I’ve loved Maria and Peter since Spoiler Alert, and I was so excited for their book! I loved that Olivia gave them this back story of lovers turned friends before finally exploring their romance. Their mutual respect and adoration for each other was so evident, and the chemistry was INTENSE. It made the eventual payoff of them finally acting on their feelings all the better.

Olivia’s stories are always very character-driven, so I don’t know why I’m surprised these two characters were so well-developed outside of their romance. Peter and Maria both have skeletons in their closets, and those pasts really drive their choices in this story. What I loved most though is that, despite both being fat, that is never a stand out characteristic. They’re fat. It’s not what drives them as characters. It’s a trait as simple as her blonde hair or his taciturn demeanor. A+++ for that choice, Olivia.

And, in the middle of all of that, we’re still gifted with laugh-out-loud moments with the rest of the Gods of the Gates cast and Maria’s family!

This book is genuinely one of my perfect reads. I laughed, I swooned, I got a little squirmy during the spicy scenes, and I cried (that epilogue!!) I’m sad to say goodbye to this series as a whole, but Maria and Peter’s story was the perfect finale!

Spice: 2.75/5 🌶