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Ship Wrecked by Olivia Dade

27 reviews

readerette's review

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emotional funny lighthearted reflective medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

If you haven't read much romance you might like this, but this is otherwise a pretty standard entry into the genre. Sometimes a romance is good enough that I can overlook that the two lovers just need to talk to each other to resolve whatever the central issue is between them, but this is not one of them. Also, everything drags on too long: every conversation, the filming, the "will they, won't they", the chats with castmates, internal monologues, everything. All the Feels is better. 

Very body positive and sex positive. 
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rickireadss's review against another edition

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3.25

i'm not sure if this is my least favorite of the series or not but i definitely know it wasn't my favorite. i relistened to the first like 20% 3-4 times because i just kept getting pulled out of the story, and that should have honestly been my sign to just DNF the book. while there were moments that i laughed or swooned, i just felt like the story didn't really go anywhere until like the 40% mark and then we were all happy up until the like 90% mark.... like tf?? anyways, it had good moments but wasn't a fave of mine.

⚠️: fatphobia, body shaming, death of parent, abandonment, grief, infidelity
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shaipanda's review against another edition

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hopeful medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated

4.0

I was absolutely obcessed with the first half of this and literally could not put it down - sadly it petered (hehe pun) out a bit in the second half/last quarter and while I still enjoyed it I think I just found it to be too long 
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fuzzywilson's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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kylieqrada's review against another edition

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emotional funny hopeful lighthearted medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

I loved this and I don't care if it had flaws because I didn't notice them due to my pure joy in the reading experience. Another entry in my small, treasured collection of romances with two fat leads. 
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greylandreviews's review against another edition

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medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

I loved the premise but this book failed me. The pacing was horrible and the only attraction these character's have for each other is just sexual.
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lennie_reads's review against another edition

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lighthearted reflective fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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bzliz's review against another edition

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lighthearted slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.25

I had a bit of an Olivia Dade binge session in February but had a long wait to get to this one and honestly I’m not sure it was worth the wait. Maria and Peter have the same superficial charm that previous protagonists in the series also had but now that it’s the third installment of the series, it’s wearing thin (ironic). The whole thing feels a lot like a middling fanfiction. The characters flirt with having real personalities but so much of it is internal and huge understandings are gleaned from a glance or a one word sentence and I’m not entirely sure these people like each other despite what we’re being told. On top of that, it’s trying way too hard to be funny with repeated “jokes” that the readers are let in on but simply aren’t funny. 

The funniest part is the tags attached to the fanfiction interstitial that references not doing a lot of research about an aspect of Hollywood life because that feels like truth in fiction about how much research the actual author put in to learning about how filming works and what press junkets are really like. 

That said, if you just want to read a book about two fat actors falling in love and you don’t really care about how illogical a lot of the details are then you’ll probably love this. I’ll be taking a break from Olivia Dade for a while though. 
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jackiepreston's review

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emotional funny lighthearted fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.75

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yvo_about_books's review

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4.0

 Finished reading: March 17th 2023


"But I’m not you, Peter. I need people I love around me every day to be happy."

I enjoyed the first two books of the series, which is kind of a surprise for me considering just how much smut is involved in both books. I think this has a lot to do with the way Olivia Dade writes her stories and creates her characters. There is just something about the characters in the Spoiler Alert books that makes it easy to connect to them, and the banter is always brilliant. Book number three is no different. Ship Wrecked features not one, but two fat main characters this time around, and I love the show of body positivity and the fact that we actually have a fat male character (which you don't see often). I am grateful for the warning about the VERY steamy start of Ship Wrecked though, because holy cow! I had to skimread more than once, because there is a LOT of smut involved considering this is basically a six-year-long slowburn romance. Somehow I don't mind the sexy scenes too much with these books though, and this is thanks to the characters and banter. I enjoyed spending time with Maria and Peter, and while I would loved to have seen their connection grow more up close and without that huge gap in the middle, as a whole it was still satisfying. It was also great to see the rest of the gang again, and the humor was spot on for me. 
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