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I love Olivia Dade and how she crafts her characters and stories! This one did not disappoint!

I loved Maria and her confidence. Her and Peter are adorable together. Maria brings out the soft, open side of Peter while he helps bring a balance to Maria’s bold presence. It’s a lovers to enemies to lovers trope that brings the heat and the heart!

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Thank you NetGalley!

I mean what can i say, it is Olivia Dade we are talking about! It did not disappoint. I loved everything about this. Representation made me tear up a few times. I loved the grumpy hero.
One of my faves of the year!

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Thank you to NetGalley for the eARC.

I loved Olivia Dade's first two in this series, they were fun and cheesy and kept me smiling. From the start this one was different for me. I just did not enjoy the romance, nor did I ever really find myself wanting to pick it up and continue. Not my favorite of hers by far.

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This book drew me in immediately, and it was easy to get invested in the story. I love a co-stars dynamic, and this one had all sorts of ~tension~ and great banter going for it! I liked the extremely specific and unique setting, and I enjoyed learning a bit about Swedish culture through Maria's character and her family, too.
Overall, this was a good intro to this author for me, and it made me want to go pick up more of her books!
I read this as an e-book, which was provided by NetGalley and Edelweiss for review.

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I will always be an Olivia Dade fan and this book was no exception. I am so appreciative of others who have plus size representation. Also, hot viking? SIGN ME UP. I thoroughly enjoyed this book and the couple.

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I am always delighted to get a book from Olivia Dade. I know that I will be entertained and left feeling good after reading. I also love that Olivia breaks the cookie cutter mode for her leading ladies!

Ship Wrecked was totally laugh out loud hilarious! But with saying that don't be fooled peeps this book is STEAMY!!! Maria and Peter were super cute and so funny together. Olivia had me cheering for them.

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For some reason I keep coming back to Olivia Dade even though I am consistently left underwhelmed - her books are good not great, so close to being great. I love the idea here, the dynamic of lovers to enemies to friends to lovers, but it fell flat here in large part because we didn't spend enough time in any of them and too much time in the final lovers phase wherein a lot of nothing happened. Female lead was a dream, male lead was a whole lot of blah who didn't deserve her.

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Thank you to Avon Books and Netgalley for the digital ARC in exchange for my honest review!

It took me forever to finish this one, but I still think it’s my favorite of the series so far. Maria and Peter’s relationship felt very organic. While I thought the book was unnecessarily long and I didn’t love that the obstacles between the two were self-imposed, the characters were well developed and the spice level was high. There’s a lot to love about this book!

(Even with this being part of a series, it can easily be read as a stand alone. Just know that the characters from the first two novels make small appearances in this book, which could spoil those endings for you.)

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I always like Olivia Dade so not surprised I liked this one too. I love to see plus size representation in romance novels especially.

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Thank you to NetGalley for an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

I love Maria and Peter, they were funny and super cute together. I liked how they stood up for each other and didn't allow the producers to starve them in order for them to lose weight. The overall plot was good, but it was disappointing they didn't get a HEA.

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I loved this story of 2 actors shooting a very popular TV show away from the main cast. It’s just the two of them, Peter and Maria, playing characters who have to survive on the island alone. They work together for six years and and are insanely attracted to each other, but it’s not until the very end that their chemistry explodes!
I loved the characters and their interaction with the rest of the show characters, and their relationship ups and downs are well done. 5 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Thanks to the publisher and NetGalley I received a complimentary copy of this book. Opinions expressed as in this review are completely my own.

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I haven’t read this yet HOWEVER, I do have the physical copy and plan on reading it this month. I have loved everything by Olivia Dade to date so I have high hopes for it!

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Nope, just no. The cover said I'm going to be a fluffy romance weekend read. It was, but I intensely disliked it. I found the writing to be hurried and the storyline to be unoriginal. The characters who usually are well developed in her writing didn't feel fleshed out to the degree they should have been and the spice was lackluster.

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Call Me Olivia Dade's biggest fan/supporter. Spoiler Alert was my introduction to her and I fell right in love with the world Olivia has created with this bigger girls getting their happily ever after. But Ship Wrecked... Second chance love ON SET!!!! Lots of pining... and just cute chemistry.

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I've never read any of Olivia Dade's books before so I wasn't sure what to expect. I was pleasantly surprised. The characters are relatable. They are atypical actors (e.g. not super skinny), who have been scarred by their pasts, who work together to build a realistic, adult relationship. Plus the sexual tension is fantastic.

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4/5 stars! This one was so fun! So much tension and I love the representation! I recommend this one all the time to people looking for romcoms with plus sized FMC. We get this request all the time and Olivia Dade is my go-to.

I'm not a big fan of workplace romances but being co-stars was a lot of fun. This is probably my favorite book of the Spoiler alert series. I love these characters.

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I am pleased to say that I thoroughly enjoyed the delicious cast of characters presented in this third installment of Ms. Dade's fabulous series. It can completely be enjoyed as a standalone and I cannot imagine the reader who would not absolutely adore the main character, Maria. If I had any wish, it would be that this were a little spicier ;) but, I enjoyed it tremendously nonetheless. Highly recommend!

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This book had plenty of lovely fun parts, I love confident plus sized characters. However, it did feel like it was such a major focus of the whole book. Why the show chose them and how big and fat their bodies were. It just really took my out of the actual story and I did not enjoy it as much as I really wanted to.

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Excellent emotional depth, not a typical romance story, and the main character, Maria, is awesome. However, it's overly long and drags quite a bit. Too much time spent in the characters heads made for pages of narration that, while enlightening, are also boring and don't have any action. I appreciated their pasts and motivations but it just dragged and made me want to skip ahead. Also, I didn't need the filler in between - group texts and fan fic. Just added to the length but was unnecessary.

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This feels like a big missed opportunity.

I went into this expecting that there would be forced proximity working on the set of a TV show as main characters which sounded so amazing. However, there is a one night stand to start the book and then a 6 year time jump to the end of the show so we actually don't get to see really any of the TV show production. I was so disappointed by that.

I felt like the writing was a slog to get through. It has the overly long internal dialogue in a romance that I just don't like and makes it really hard to breeze through. I just didn't like either character enough or care enough to want to finish this so it was hard.

I'm not writing this author off, I just didn't love this one. But I do appreciate the plus size rep.

Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for an eArc. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

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