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A review by caseythereader
Spoiler Alert by Olivia Dade
emotional
funny
hopeful
lighthearted
reflective
fast-paced
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.5
✨MINI REVIEW✨ [ @harpercollins #partner ]
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. 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. (via Goodreads) 📚
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What I liked:
📚 Marcus and April felt like real people with real lives and traumas and insecurities.
📚 Watching April set her own boundaries was a joy.
📚 I loved that April would have been perfectly fine living her life without Marcus - having a great relationship with him was just the cherry on top of a fulfilling life.
📚 Felt like the author really knows and loves fanfiction culture.
📚 I've never watched Game of Thrones (I KNOW, SORRY) but it was still a treat to see this book take the final seasons of that show to task through Gods of the Gates.
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What I didn't like:
📚 I'm usually pretty good at accepting unrealistic situations in romance novels, but it was often hard to suspend my disbelief here.
📚 This is completely a personal preference, but I really dislike when the plot hinges on one big secret the hero or heroine is keeping from the other.
📚 Some of the sexytimes moves read awkwardly or painfully when they clearly weren't meant to (that last bit in the epilogue, augh no why!).
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Content warnings: fatphobia, fat shaming, dyslexia, parental estrangement.
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. 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. (via Goodreads) 📚
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What I liked:
📚 Marcus and April felt like real people with real lives and traumas and insecurities.
📚 Watching April set her own boundaries was a joy.
📚 I loved that April would have been perfectly fine living her life without Marcus - having a great relationship with him was just the cherry on top of a fulfilling life.
📚 Felt like the author really knows and loves fanfiction culture.
📚 I've never watched Game of Thrones (I KNOW, SORRY) but it was still a treat to see this book take the final seasons of that show to task through Gods of the Gates.
•
What I didn't like:
📚 I'm usually pretty good at accepting unrealistic situations in romance novels, but it was often hard to suspend my disbelief here.
📚 This is completely a personal preference, but I really dislike when the plot hinges on one big secret the hero or heroine is keeping from the other.
📚 Some of the sexytimes moves read awkwardly or painfully when they clearly weren't meant to (that last bit in the epilogue, augh no why!).
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Content warnings: fatphobia, fat shaming, dyslexia, parental estrangement.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Body shaming, Fatphobia, and Toxic relationship
Toxic relationship meaning between the main characters and their parents, not that their relationship is toxic.