Spoiler Alert Review

By Olivia Dade

Spoiler Alert Book 1

Star rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Spice rating: 🌶️🌶️🌶️

Blurb

Olivia Dade bursts onto the scene in this delightfully fun romantic comedy set in the world of fanfiction, in which a devoted fan goes on an unexpected date with her celebrity crush, who’s secretly posting fanfiction of his own.

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?

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Read if you Like:

💻  Fanfic authors

💻  Online friendship

💻  Curvy heroine

💻  Actor hero

💻  Family conflict

My Thoughts:

 

I have had this one on my TBR for a while and it didn't disappoint! Olivia Dade has a true talent for writing romcoms with heart, humor, and emotional depth.

I am not someone who has read or written fan fiction, but like many romance readers, I have read quite a few books that were originally fan fiction over the past few years. I loved getting to learn a little bit about how fan fiction writing works! I now understand better how it is a community that has created so many popular romance writers.

I loved April and Marcus as a couple. They both struggled with wounds from their past and I loved how supportive of each other they each were. I liked that they weren't perfect and each made their own mistakes.

Finally, I loved the dyslexia and plus-sized representation in this book. I haven't read many books that have dyslexia rep in particular so I really appreciated that. I do think there is a bit of a trend in romance books to embrace plus-sized heroines but not heroes. That being said, since women are the main consumers of romance books the argument could be made that having heroines with good representation is more important.

I recommend this one to anyone who likes a romcom and hasn't read it yet! I am excited to continue the series.

🌶️🌶️🌶️- Spoiler Alert has a few open-door spicy scenes as well as mention of spice in fanfics.