I did not finish this book. I have enjoyed this author's previous work, but for some reason I just couldn't connect with this one. It was a little too raunchy for my taste, which is surprising because I've read some very steamy books. It just felt like it was a little too much too fast, literally right out the gate and then I just couldn't connect with the characters.

What I did like before DNF'ing was the body positivity. Very much appreciate the anti fat-phobia in Dade's work and discrediting the stereotype that fat means inability to be sexual.

I don't feel that it is fair for me to put a star rating since I didn't finish the book; however, I have to through the app unfortunately.

A great addition to the Spoiler Alert universe. This book opens quite literal in the middle of “love making” and masterfully still manages to be a slow-burn. What I love about Olivia Dades writing is that, although it has great romantic progression and to die for spicy scenes, the characters are still amazingly complex and go through so much growth throughout the novel. This books also has great Fat-Rep with not one but two plus size main characters.

This was a cute book, but it definitely could have been more.

It started off hot and fast (I was not expecting that). I thought it would continue that way, but instead it slowed to a crawl. It also had time hops that just felt off. There were also times it almost felt like the author was trying to push certain things too hard, which would pull me away from feeling immersed in the story. I also felt like some things just didn't add up in the end either, leaving me frustrated in characters' decisions and the reasoning behind those decisions.

There were definitely good elements to the story with representation and some of the banter, but this story just wasn't for me.

Thank you NetGalley and Avon and Harper Voyage for my copy of Ship Wrecked.
As a big fan of Olivia Dade, I expected a lot from this book and I have to say it absolutely delivered. I just loved Peter and Maria's dynamic with each other. I will admit that I had a little trouble at the beginning getting into it but once I was over that hump I could not put it down. I also love the tie-ins from the other books as well.
In this book, we follow Maria and Peter who had one night stand turn sour and even more sour when they have casted and forced to work together on the project in an isolated island.

This was super cute. I feel like finally in this series we get to see how the show is made & actual acting! I also enjoyed the second chance romance of this! All the yearning! Overall I still think Spoiler Alert is my favorite in this series still but this one is a close second!

The tensions and the emotions!!! I loved this so much. Olivia Dade has never disappointed. This book was fantastic and gave me everything I needed, most importantly, the plus sized rep I am always craving (as a plus sized person). The cover on this is one of my favorites of all time as well!!

Thank you #netgalley for an early read of #shipwrecked

Maria and Peter are my favorite of the couples from this Gods of the Gates romances. The circumstances of their characters in the show helped it remove itself from the GoT over-comparison, but I loved the note during the series finale screening that everything was too bright or overexposed, the complete opposite of the dark final season of GoT. The reason for the third-act breakup was pretty thin, based on the chosen professions of our main characters, but I understood the viewpoints of the characters which helped me move past the eye rolling! Because I loved the characters, I had a good time throughout this novel and would continue reading from Olivia Dade.

I love a good slow burn but I had my doubts about this one initially. I was proven incredibly wrong! This book nearly had me sobbing on the treadmill at the gym in front of strangers. I absolutely love the dynamic between Maria and Peter.

For a book that literally started off mid-one night stand... it was shockingly a delicious slow burn! Olivia Dade is such a fabulous writer who knows how to write sexual tension so well. TOO WELL.

The characters are loveable and the sensitive topics approached in this book are handled perfectly.

I will absolutely be looking for more of her books!

This was a mixed bag for me. I LOVE how Olivia Dade writes fat characters, and I love that the male lead was an untraditional body type as well as the female. Typically when we get a fat character, it's the female and the male is a chiseled model-esqe specimen, so it was refreshing to see a male character that doesn't fit the romance stereotype. I also love that the characters' body shape and weight weren't their whole identity.

The timeline (jumping ahead 6 years, then jumping back, then forward again) was too much for me. I was getting whiplash from getting toss back and forth, and it took me out of the story too much to get invested like I wanted to be.

This was probably a 3.5 * for me, but I rounded up. I'll continue to read this author (and series if it continues), but this wasn't my favorite of the bunch.

This one wasn’t for me but I think it will be a hit with others. From the first couple pages I was struggling to get into the story. I loved the idea of the plot and the synopsis sounded right up my alley but unfortunately, I couldn’t care for the characters. They both seemed immature and had no idea how to just communicate with one another. I didn’t find either of them to be relatable which made it hard for me to connect with them. The writing wasn’t my favorite because the author focused more on telling the reader something happened instead of showing us. This ultimately made me feel even more disconnected from the characters. Overall, this one was okay. I’d recommend you give it a try for yourself.

Thank you so much @avonbooks for the gifted copy on Netgalley. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for this arc in exchange for an honest review!

Another win from Olivia Dade! All of her books are incredible. She always has the best sexual tension between the main characters and her representation for plus size characters always wins! I loved that in this book both of the main characters were plus size. One of my other favorite things about this series is how we see scenes with the previous main characters of the other books. I love seeing their friendship and all the conversations they have.

I enjoyed this book so much! The lovers-to-friends-to-lovers storyline worked so well here, and I loved that the two main characters went through so much growth throughout their friendship before even getting to the romance. The slow burn was real, even if they started with a one-night stand! The jump in timeline was a little bit jarring, but I think it worked well for the plot overall. I loved that the characters were so well-developed, and Maria's confidence was so inspiring. Maria and Peter were the SWEETEST and even though there was still a little bit of miscommunication, I think that it was resolved well. This was definitely my favorite of the Spoiler Alert series!

Read this book if you like:
- friends-to-lovers
- confident heroines
- sweet romance
- slow burn and lots of pining

Thank you to NetGalley and Avon and Harper Voyager for the ARC in exchange for an honest review. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

Ship Wrecked is book three in the Spoiler Alert series, and while I enjoyed it very much, it was my least favorite of the three.

Maria and Peter were fine, but they didn’t do it for me quite as much as Alexis or even Marcus. I don’t even remember them as being cast members before this book. Maria was a little too much of a risk-taker, and Peter was not enough. I liked that Peter pined for Maria, and I enjoyed both of them, but they weren’t my favorites.

Like the other books in the series, this takes place on the set of a very Game of Thrones-like show. So I enjoyed that aspect of it. And the forced proximity that this caused between Maria and Peter was excellent! That was my favorite part of the book. I also enjoyed that those two were able to become such good friends.

The eventual conflict annoyed me the most and made me not particularly enjoy Maria. I thought she was a little too unreadable, and I wish she wasn’t so black and white about things.

Overall this was an enjoyable read. I loved that both characters were fat and enjoyed the story.

It was good, I didn’t realize it was part of a series so that totally my bad. I want to start over and read them all bc I really enjoyed this one.

Ship Wrecked is my first Olivia Dade book and I didn't realize until the end that it is the last in a series, but I'm not sure that matters as it seems it can stand alone. I loved the premise of the book. Maria and Peter have a one night stand that ends with Peter upset when he wakes to find Maria gone. Soon after they are equally surprised to see each other at the audition for a very popular TV show. They both are casts as leads and what follows next is months of shooting together on a remote Irish island playing enemies to lovers, a situation not too far from their reality. Theirs is a slow burn of coworkers becoming friends and finally lovers.

I really enjoyed the cast of characters, the message of body positivity and how Maria prioritized what was important and stood up for herself and friends. The setting was fun and the overall plot unique, but throughout the whole book I felt kind of bored, especially in the middle chunk of the book. Most of the action was at the very beginning and then the end. A lot of the events and little chunks of interviews, group chats, etc seemed like filler.

I would definitely try another Dade book. From what I've read, a lot of people liked the first few in the series better.

I unfortunately had to DNF this book because I could not connect to the dialogue. I think that the characters were likable but there were a lot of characters introduced in the beginning and the dialogue with it was very rushed. I had to go back and see who was who for a lot of the beginning that the frustration for that was difficult. I wanted to love this book because I loved the plot and synopsis but it was difficult to follow.

Wanted to love this book as I loved Spoiler Alert, but I truly couldn't get into it. There was something forced about the characters' chemistry that didn't allow me to get invested in their journey and it's sadly a DNF at 30%.

Because of recent events with the Harper Collins strike, i will not be giving feedback on any current books I have with this publishers. Pay your employees and stop asking for free labor from book reviewers

I love that both that mmc and fmc are curvy or normal sized. This takes place on set of Gods of the Gates and though these two met before they were cast briefly though quite steamily, they keep it professional.

Maria is a gorgeous Swede who will not let anyone try to change her body image or body. And Peter is a sexy bearded large man that needs this job to keep him in the leading man category. This is like a slow burn workplace romance but when the sex scene needs to be shot is a mento to a two liter.

Love that it’s told in both pov and can be read as a standalone.

Thank you avonbooks and netgalley for the e-ARC for my honest and voluntary review.