For anyone who is a fan of "Spoiler Alert" or spicy romance novels in general, you are sure to enjoy this novel. Written as a follow-up to Marcus and April's story, now it's Alex's turn. Alex, Marcus' friend from "God of the Gates" and also enjoys writing fanfiction, knows his star is failing after his arrest and public altercation becomes tabloid fodder. While he's needed to finish filming the show, the showrunners hire a minder to watch out for him. So, they enlist one of their cousins: Lauren. Lauren herself is a former ER therapist between jobs, trying to figure out her next step. And she does need the cash, so she agrees to help out her cousin and watch over this incredibly good-looking superstar. But, the more she gets to know him and spend time with him, the more she realizes there's more to him than meets the eye.

So, after devouring "Spoiler Alert," I was instantly excited about this one and, boy, did it deliver! Told in dual perspectives, the language just drew me in and captivated me until the very last page of the epilogue. Yes, there is some ~spice~ here, and hot it does get, so, ahem, fair warning. Plus, that ending was beyond adorable yet still felt completely justified.

I just finished reading my NetGalley ARC of ALL THE FEELS and I LOVED IT. I couldn't get out of bed this morning because I was so into it and wouldn't stop reading even though I was starving and had to use the bathroom (don't worry, I eventually did take a food break). I was very drawn to the grumpy/sunshine Taming of the Shrew vibes, especially because I think the hero is both grumpy and sunshine but not as grumpy as the heroine.

Anyway, I looooooooooved Alex and how funny and maddening and pure-hearted he is, how dry Lauren's sense of humor is, and how caring and fair she is too. I am a sucker for over-protective heroes, so I would basically do anything for Alex after we discover he wants to hulk smash anyone who hurts Lauren or sees her as anything other than a splendiferous queen, and how immediately he recognized that Ron, her cousin and showrunner/ruiner of the GoT-type show, IS A GIANT ASS TO HER AND ALWAYS HAS BEEN - F* YOU, RON. I also loved how absolutely hard Alex fell for Lauren, how into *her* he was, and how the author wrote cues for his attraction to her and the depth of his feelings that went beyond like, damn she looks good in a tank top or whatever. But of course, I also loved when he accidentally stared at her ass and would catalog information like "now I know what her lower thighs look like." It was so nice to read a genuine appreciation for a plus-sized woman from a man who is equally horny for her body as he is for her personality, like omfg he reallyyyyyyy CARES and NOTICES everything, Unffffffff. If you also have a round belly, thin legs, small breasts, and a crooked nose, hello movie star Alex Woodroe is YOUR BIGGEST FAN, especially if your name is Lauren Clegg. A+++ for the spicy scenes, orgasms with outdoor views, wonderful!!!

I also loved Alex's relationship with his mom (I also was crying over cinnamon toast), and Carah and all his friends in the cast, gaaahhh, so cute. I also loved the last interview scene with Vika and Lauren's ownership over people questioning the staying power of (or even their right to have) their relationship.

And of course, I DIED AND WENT TO HEAVEN AND THEN CAME BACK TO FINISH READING the long list of filthy fanfic tropes that Alex wants to do to/with Lauren. Amen, let's start a church with that as the liturgy. AMAZING.

If Olivia Dade ever makes BHE (big harpy energy) t-shirts, I would like to buy 50 million of them, please.

This book was provided to me via Kindle by Avon and Harper Voyager, Avon and #NetGalley for my honest opinion.


Lauren and Alex are charming, lively, fun and relatable. If Spoiler Alert was a fantastic introduction to the characters, All the Feels is an excellent follow up.

I was very interested in the one after getting glimpses of Alex and Lauren in the previous story but ultimately I found myself not connecting to either character as much as I thought I might. I ​found the between bits (fanfic, chats, etc) more interesting to read in this one and liked that there was less focus on the Gates show.

I found Alex exhausting and Lauren quite boring but did feel they were a match, just not one that held my interest. These are just the people that they are, Alex is kind and impulsive, diving head first and giving his all without thinking anything through which can be endearing (for Lauren it is!) or it could be just too much (for me). Part of my dislike for Lauren is probably my own bias because she's fine and I'm all for people being loved for who they are but she just didn't seem to have much going on for herself. Figuring out her career future and having one friend outside of Alex? I don't feel like I learned very much about her as a person outside of her relationship with Alex, the 1 friend she has who she talks to about Alex, and her negative relationship with her cousin. She didn't seem fully formed where I felt I learned quite a bit about Alex both from this story and the previous.

Steam level - Less than the previous but open door, descriptive. (No pegging described - only mentioning because he mentions at least being curious about it in the previous story).

I won the lottery when I was given an ARC of All the Feels by Olivia Dade.

This book gave me life: heroine with Big Harpy Energy, A+ fat rep, only 1 bed, sexy actor hero who cries freely, setting healthy boundaries, supportive friendships, fanfic, & walks in the starlight. 😍

You'll want to gobble this up in one sitting, it's that good.

I really liked the first book but I somehow ended up liking the second book even more. While we were aware of the main couple from their occasional moments in the first book, it was delicious and delightful to gain new insights and depths through them getting the center stage this time around. Lots of delightful details, emotional growth, and adorkable chemistry.

CW- fatphobia, body shaming, domestic abuse, bullying, sexual content
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All the Feels is a companion book to Spoiler Alert, although it can be read as a stand-alone. It follows Alex, a TV star that is very dissatisfied with his show’s final season, and Lauren, the woman assigned to keep him out of trouble.
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This was adorable! I recently read Spoiler Alert, and I definitely prefer this book. It took everything good with Spoiler Alert and added tension and a slow burn relationship, and it was just wonderful.
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I loved Alex and Lauren’s dynamic, and was laughing out loud half of the time. The way these two characters interacted felt very real and nuanced, and I just loved that.
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I also loved how heavier topics, such as fatphobia and domestic abuse, were incorporated into the story, and how this book had the unique ability to be both a rom-com and something more than that.
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I really enjoyed it, but I just wanted a bit more in some aspects, which lowers my rating down to 4.25 stars. I highly recommend this though if you are looking for a romance book to read!
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Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for providing a copy of this book in exchange for my honest opinion.

After Alex gets into a bar fight, his showrunners hire Lauren to be his minder and to make sure he doesn't get into anymore trouble until the final season of the hit show Gods of the Gates airs. But both Lauren and Alex discover the other person isn't who they assumed as they get closer together over the course of their working relationship.

It's a wonderful romance, and I love how parts of it are happening at the same time as the events in Spoiler Alert.

I loved 40-love by Olivia Dade and was so excited to jump into this book! I was feeling like this book maybe wasn't for me, but I kept reading to see if I just needed to give it more time. In the end I did not finish this book. I would read more from this author, but this one just wasn't for me!

Thank you to netgalley and the publisher for the advanced readers copy

All the feels, indeed. After getting a glimpse of Alex and Lauren in Spoiler Alert I was anxiously waiting their story in All the Feels by Olivia Dade. I was not prepared for how much I absolutely fell in love with them.

After leaving her physically and mentally exhausting job as an ER therapist, Lauren decides to take a vacation to think about her next career move. What she doesn’t expect is to be saddled as a minder for Alexander Woodroe, one of the actors in her cousin’s hit TV show.

After a scandal that puts Alex’s career in jeopardy and costs Lauren her job, Alex tries to keep Lauren in his life by asking her to go on a road trip with him to hopefully win Lauren’s heart.

Lauren is amazing. I love her character development over the course of the book. She grows into herself more and it was so wonderful to finally see her worth. She embodies BHE.

Alex is loyal as they come even if it’s at his own detriment. All he wants to do is the right thing, to fix things when they go wrong. To help others. Between that, his almost nonstop chatter, and love of tropes, how could you not love Alex? And yes, I did keep a running tab of Alex Woodroe’s favorite tropes.

All the Feels is aptly named because I went through ALL the emotions. I highly recommend reading this book.

I’m a not sure how I feel about this book. I want to really like but on the other hand it was a little on the boring side for me. Alex was sweet, at times, but he was a little too much for me. It was all or nothing for him. He didn’t understand that it’s not always like that in the real world.
As for Wren (Alex name for her) she was closed off and little to hard on herself and Alex. She always but what others needed and wanted before herself. People just thought she would always be there no matter what. She did grow some but I wish it was more.
These together were good and solid. They helped each other be better. They are good for each other I have to admit. I just wanted more.
I give this 3.5 stars.

As a big fan of Olivia Dade's fanfic-themed romance Spoiler Alert, I'm happy to say All the Feels is a more than successful sequel! It's just such a delight from start to finish, and though I don't know if I could stand working with Alex Woodroe, I sure did love reading him in all his messy, ridiculous, affectionate glory. Lauren makes a great counterpoint to him, and though I thought the third act break-up wasn't as strong as it could have been, all in all I had a smile on my face for basically the entire time I was reading this book. All the feels indeed, and what more can one ask for from a romance novel?

Thank you to NetGalley and Avon for the advance review copy!

My favorite part of Spoiler Alert was any moment we got to see Alex when he talked about Lauren. While I loved Marcus and April and their love story, Alex and Lauren shone so much brighter in even the short amount of time we saw them. That is why I was ecstatic to read this book about them and it lived up to the hype- it was better than the first in the series.

Lauren is assigned to make sure celebrity Alex behaves after he engages in a bar brawl. While they are at first hesitant about the other, their witty banter and playful conversations grow into something more.

Alex and Lauren were a great couple to focus on. They were very different from each other but I could still see how they fell in love and I adored how they grew to know themselves better the more they fell in love.

I love Lauren so incredibly much. I really appreciated how she wasn't conventionally attractive and knew that and was ok with who she was. The way she dealt with criticism and hate about her looks was realistic and I think few authors would have written about that in such a great way without it being cheesy.

Alex is unlike any male character I have read before and I adored him for that. Reading about him growing as a person was as rewarding as the main love story (which was seriously adorable).

My main complaint about this book is the pacing. First of all, I felt like the beginning relied too much on the reader knowing what happened in Spoiler Alert and while I remembered everything, I wish this book explained everything more without expecting the audience to fill in the gaps with what they had read previously. I also think this read like two different books. Before and after the convention and while I loved both parts, they read differently from one another which put me off a bit.

Overall, this book had a lovely romance between two flawed but spectacular characters who realized that loving themselves is as important as love one another. Olivia Dade is great at writing authentic characters and I will happily read any other book she writes and will go back and read her previous works.

My favorite addition to the series by far! I cannot wait for book 3. Their chemistry flew off the pages, and the banter was ridiculous. I give this book 5 smoking hot stars. Loved the plus sized rep, and loved how they immediately recognized something in the other than no one else did. This book truly gave me All the Feels!!!!!

I loved loved loved this book. Maaaybe even more than Olivia Dade’s, first hard to say 😉. This is a great book for anyone who feels self-doubt or is unsure of their rightful place in the world. I read the entirety in one sitting, it was unput-down-able! This story really is a heart in book form. 💜🖤

I can’t wait for what comes next from Dade. Big Harpy Energy for Life!! #CroneGoals

character-driven, engaging, realistic-fiction, romance

I so thoroughly enjoyed Olivia Dade’s Spoiler Alert when I read it earlier this year that I was happy I’d missed its original release in October 2020 because it meant less time to wait for the next book in the series. When my request for an advance copy of All the Feels was approved, I tried to put off reading it for a while so that it would be closer to the release date and I wouldn’t have to wait so long for any future books in the series – I wasn’t able to hold out too long. As with Spoiler Alert, Dade’s upcoming novel All the Feels is both a celebration and critique of modern entertainment and fandom culture. It’s thoroughly hilarious but also gets into more serious topics like mental health and domestic abuse.

Alex is almost finished filming his final scenes of the final episode of the final season of Gods of the Gates which means he’s almost beyond the demands of his contract. Except that he had an altercation at a bar and was arrested which has drawn the wrong kind of publicity and showrunner Ron has decided that Alex needs a babysitter, specifically, his cousin, Lauren – who was supposed to be on vacation – for the duration of post-production, the press tour promoting the final season, and all the way through till the final episode has aired. As much as she can’t stand her cousin, she also finds the money too good to pass up while she takes a prolonged break from her work as an ER therapist to figure out her next career move. After getting off on the wrong foot, Alex and Lauren find they enjoy one another’s company but Alex’s impulsivity threatens to get him into trouble in ways that even Lauren can’t stop. Will Alex’s attempts to defend Lauren cost him his reputation and career?
Allusions to the famously disappointing final seasons of Game of Thrones are clear as day (even to me, someone who never watched the show and only knows the basic plot points and character arc), particularly through Alex’s Gods of the Gates character, Cupid who ultimately returns to fight alongside his mother and grandfather, undoing seasons’ worth of character development that had him leaving their abusive clutches. But what Dade does so well is use that allusive similarity and spin it into a deeper exploration of domestic abuse through Alex’s character and the guilt he carries over what he sees as failing his mother (and through his job on the show, impressionable viewers). It makes the link between fiction and reality more solid, both on and off the page.

Another element that I appreciate in Dade’s writing is the visibility she gives to common disorders, conditions, and to mental health. In Spoiler Alert, the hero was living with dyslexia and it was framed as a challenge that required some workarounds. In All the Feels, Alex has severe ADHD and takes medication to help him manage the challenges of his condition but it also celebrates the way his condition plays into his charm. For both characters, these challenges factor into their sense of identity and play a role in elements of the plot but they are not their sole defining trait. Through the novels’ heroines Dade challenges the slim, tall, statuesque romantic heroine stereotype but also addresses the mental and emotional impact of growing up having those impossible standards forced upon them. With Lauren and her work as a therapist especially, the importance of mental health and therapy rise to the surface. The most important factor about each of the relationships in these books is that the couples are very conscientious and protective of each other’s mental health, encouraging their partner to prioritize their personal well-being.

Though it was obvious at the end of Spoiler Alert that the next novel would focus on Alex and Lauren, I find myself having finished my advance copy of All the Feels without knowing for sure if there will be another book in this series (I’m really hoping the space left for an announcement to come is being reserved for that but certainty won’t come until the novel is officially released). There are plenty of other Gods of the Gates actors who’ve crept up that are viable candidates (perhaps one of the female cast members this time) but no one with an ongoing story that was alluded to and overlapped with this one the way Alex and Lauren did in Spoiler Alert. I guess I’ll just have to wait and see.

All the Feels will be available October 26, 2021.

All The Feels by Olivia Dade
⭐️Review⭐️ Thank you, @avonbooks for an advanced reader copy of this book in exchange for my honest review!

All the Feels is a spin off of last year’s delightfully popular Spoiler Alert. This series is following actors from a Game of Thrones-esq epic television drama that the actors feel is ruined by the producers in the final season. Spoiler Alert followed one of the actors writing fanfiction about the show (I do recommend reading book 1 since we are introduced to this book’s characters there) and now All The Feels continues the story of another cast member.

Things I loved about this book:
🏹Alex is a sassy pants delightful asshole that had me LOLing
🏹there’s some lovey sunshine-&-grumpy one energy here
🏹 watching Lauren learn to embrace her Big Harpy Energy (& seeing Alex support that BHE) was exceptionally sweet
🏹 we get a bigger glance at the Gods of the Gates cast in this book and really come to adore them, too
🏹if, like me, you aren’t a GoT fan, you’ll still be able to follow along 😅

From the publisher: Alexander Woodroe has it all. Charm. Sex appeal. Wealth. Fame. A starring role as Cupid on TV’s biggest show, Gods of the Gates. But the showrunners have wrecked his character, he's dogged by old demons, and his post-show future remains uncertain. When all that reckless emotion explodes into a bar fight, the tabloids and public agree: his star is falling.
Enter Lauren Clegg, the former ER therapist hired to keep him in line. Compared to her previous work, watching over handsome but impulsive Alex shouldn’t be especially difficult. But the more time they spend together, the harder it gets to keep her professional remove and her heart intact, especially when she discovers the reasons behind his recklessness…not to mention his Cupid fanfiction habit.

Such a cute story! I loved Spoiler Alert and this was a great follow up. Olivia Dade kills it with the character development, the representation and everything. Look forward to reading her future books!

All The Feels indeed! Alex Woodroe and Lauren Clegg were a match made in fandom!! He is this enigmatic, fast talking, hero who loves to antagonize Lauren Clegg his assigned minder. Lauren for her part can deliver a dry line and ignore Alex and his antics until she can't anymore and because obviously there was so much pegging fanfic and utter joy! Their banter and silly back and forth was adorable and established an epic trust and friendship above all else. Which also makes this a bit of a slow burn but it totally works for this couple and story. There were several laugh out loud moments and a few emotional lows. I loved that Alex was able to make himself so vulnerable with his close friends including Lauren and that the story encouraged strong friendships and professional help in the form of therapy and/or medications as appropriate for each person.

In the end this was an epically perfect romantic comedy with all the right swoon and laughs.

The story touched on subjects of ADHD, domestic abuse, fat shaming, bullying, and self loathing/sacrifice, therapy, professional burnout. As always, Olivia Dade gave each subject a good amount of attention and respect.

For readers of Spoiler Alert, about 40% of this book takes place during the events of that book which is a fun glimpse into that story too. And just like spoiler alert, this was a beautiful body positive / girl power story that made me swoon.

Thank you Olivia Dade for telling these beautiful, inclusive stories for women like me.

A great companion/sequel to Spoiler Alert. I really enjoyed reading Alex's story and how his and Lauren's romance played out. I do wish the romance started earlier and we had more of it. Also the steam in this book was equally great!