Book Review: Spoiler Alert | Olivia Dade

The Stats

📖 BOOK REVIEW⠀📚

BOOK: Spoiler Alert

AUTHOR: Olivia Dade

#OliviaDade

Publisher: Avon @

Stars: ⭐⭐⭐

Published: October 6, 2020

https://amzn.to/36T8keU

The Review

The Title/Cover Draw:

A story about a plus sizer who turns the head of a tv star? Sign me up.

What I liked:

The character of April was very much identifiable as someone I related to. She was quirky and geeky.

What I didn’t like:

The book had some STEAMY scenes and in the second half of the book, that’s pretty much all that happened. I was waiting for more.

What kept me reading:

Totally wondering if Marcus would ever reveal his fan-fic persona.

The Characters:

Both April and Marcus had flaws which made them interestingly unconventional.

The Ending:

The story is interspersed with examples of shooting scripts and fan-fic pieces. Wasn’t completely sure how that fed into the ending.

Consider if you like:

You love stories about fan fiction and greek gods/fantasy.

You can see my video review here:

Small Summary:

Marcus Caster-Rupp has a secret. While the world knows him as Aeneas, the star of the biggest show on TV, Gods of the Gates, he’s known to fanfiction readers as Book!AeneasWouldNever, an anonymous and popular poster.  Marcus is able to get out his own frustrations with his character through his stories, especially the ones that feature the internet’s favorite couple to ship, Aeneas and Lavinia. But if anyone ever found out about his online persona, he’d be fired. Immediately.

April Whittier has secrets of her own. A hardcore Lavinia fan, she’s hidden her fanfiction and cosplay hobby from her “real life” for years—but not anymore. When she decides to post her latest Lavinia creation on Twitter, her photo goes viral. Trolls and supporters alike are commenting on her plus-size take, but when Marcus, one half of her OTP, sees her pic and asks her out on a date to spite her critics, she realizes life is really stranger than fanfiction.

Even though their first date is a disaster, Marcus quickly realizes that he wants much more from April than a one-time publicity stunt. And when he discovers she’s actually Unapologetic Lavinia Stan, his closest fandom friend, he has one more huge secret to hide from her.

With love and Marcus’s career on the line, can the two of them stop hiding once and for all, or will a match made in fandom end up prematurely cancelled?

*****

I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own. Received from Netgalley.