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.

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.

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.)

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

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

Rating: 3.75/5 - Spice: 2.25/5 - Book #3 of Spoiler Alert series.

So this wasn't my favorite of the series, but was still enjoyable. I loved Maria's strong personality and strength when it came to her body and standing up for herself as a plus-sized female actress - Peter...not so much (sorry, not sorry, I just couldn't vibe with his character, even with his history). The book felt a bit longer than necessary, and it felt like for a rom-com the relationship had too many petty conflicts (IMO) but it was a nice book that added to the characters for the entire Spoiler Alert universe.

Brief Plot: Peter and MAria ad a one night stand, and she left him high and dry, and incredibly bitter. When they learn they are both working together on a secluded island for this tv show, they must establish more of a friendship than an enemie-ship. But as the years pass, their friendship slowly grows. Until the show is over, and both are ready t re-explore the romantic sides of their friendship. But as two actors, can they find a balance in their work and relationship?

Thank you NetGalley and Avon andHarper Voyager Publishing, for an ARC copy of Ship Wrecked by Olivia Dade. This is my honest review!

3.5 stars (rounded up to 4) I love Olivia Dade's writing, and this cast of characters, but I struggled with the pace of this one somewhat. Years pass throughout the novel, but we only see small snippets of our two leads interacting during that time. Since they're stuck on an island together, I would have loved to have some more build up/pining. I did love both of their back stories, but I also struggled with the dreaded 3rd act break up because it just frustrated me (maybe this was more personal frustration because it does make sense within the context of the book). Even with my qualms, I definitely recommend this one!

After reading the first two books in the series, I was very much looking forward to this one.

Maria, a Swedish stage actress, has a glorious one night stand with a Viking-like God who leaves her before the next morning with no note or message. Little does she know, that this will end up being her castmate, Peter, on Gods of the Gates for the next six years. Her attraction to him never wanes, nor his for her, but over time they become friends, and eventually, the show must come to end. And then what happens?

So firstly, Dade does fantastic at creating very distinctive voices for both of her leads. I LOVED Maria. Between the bluntness, vulnerability, and the fact that she stood up for herself and her body. Like, knocked it out of the park. Peter was... interesting and difficult to reconcile at times. I think Dade showed that there is definitely (though she didn't show this as openly?) a bias towards the male body in show business as well. I wish Peter had talked about that at some point. He was just so focused on, "I must not lose my job", that that never truly got addressed. And yet, that was very much part of what was going on. Like every actor's body gets objectified and shamed at some point. I think the fact that Maria is the only one that was really fighting it is the maybe the reason Dade addressed it the way she did?

The slow burn of this about killed me though. Like I know the book starts the way it does and cool. But oh my gosh. Six years. Six YEARS. That is a long game, yo. And I applaud Peter for his fortitude. And I love the fact that by the time they got together, it was like everything goes. Because, I was like, yes, please. Thank you.

I also really appreciated that Dade had Maria truly approach her past relationship issues and made the couple work through it. Like, we're not just gonna gloss over this and pretend like Maria is crazy. No, Peter needs to do the work and understand why this might be a problem. I think Maria did make it a bit harder by not just being up front and saying, hey this is why it upsets me. But, sometimes, that's how we operate as humans?

Overall, I really enjoyed this. I honestly, because I'm a jerk, took a star off for the slow burn/pacing. It was a bit much for me. Sorry! But it's true.

Thank you so much for the ARC!

Thank you for the book, Netgalley. It was very good. I loved the characters, they were all incredibly distinct and unique. Olivia Dade is especially talented in her ability to write an engaging scene within the Hollywood background. Of course, the main draw of this book is the diversity in having the main characters be plus-sized which is not common enough in publishing nowadays. Overall, this book was three out of five stars.

Olivia Dade's fat-positive rom coms are simply addictive to me. I've actually read this book TWICE since receiving this ARC - once on my kindle with the ARC eCopy, and once physically with the copy I bought myself. I love her characters and the way they live their lives. It's inspiring, and gives me hope for the romance genre in general.

5-star romances from me are always a combination of swoony and serious. This fit the bill. There was sexy, wonderful, heart-pounding romance, but there were also serious things going on in the lives of these characters, which made me feel for them on a deeply level and connect to them as people beyond the page.

As always, Olivia Dade scored big time.