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dk_d1337d's review against another edition
3.0
Maybe because I'm outside of the fanfic side of fandom I have sorta "eh" feelings about this. I do like that this is basically "what if one of the GoT actors wrote fic and fell in love" as that premise is amusing, but nothing about the characters really grabbed me. However, I gotta support a fat chicks need love too book. Not enough of those in the world for this fat chick.
For the next book, I hope we get The Peg That Was Promised.
For the next book, I hope we get The Peg That Was Promised.
a56jml's review against another edition
5.0
LOVE LOVE LOVED THIS BOOK!!!! This book had everything I LOVE fanfic, fandom friends, rage toward people I too have issues with and most of all this book helped me accept myself and gives me hope. SO SO WONDERFUL!!
liroa15's review against another edition
3.0
This is sweet, but I probably should have stayed away from it. I wasn’t a huge fan of the AO3 story headers at the end of a lot of chapters, but the heroine having the same name as me was a real trip to be honest. I struggled with it a lot because of that I think.
charlietuna92's review against another edition
3.0
This was recommended to me because it deals with issues of being plus size and not feeling beautiful or valuable. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, romance isn’t really my genre. That being said, this didn’t read like a typical romance book. It read, very intentionally, as a fanfiction. Being the nerd that I am, I greatly appreciated that and some of the jokes even made me laugh out loud. It was a super fast read and a cute story.
clemonsa's review against another edition
2.0
This book just wasn’t for me. The story line seemed a mix of How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days and You’ve Got Mail. I was a little annoyed with the FMC throughout the book and the MMC was just as bad. Both characters had emotional trauma that they were dealing with and seemed to glob into each once they were getting what they needed emotionally. The book did have spice fairly early on in the book. Just couldn’t get into it. Read this for my book club, glad I borrowed instead of bought it.
hhamlet's review against another edition
5.0
Probably in the 4.5 range, but my goodness! This was exactly what I needed!
beingfacetious's review against another edition
5.0
I was skeptical but I LOVED this. I ask again, did y'all know books could make you feel happy
maggie_tries_to_read's review against another edition
emotional
funny
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
3.25
lorenaaszczepanik's review against another edition
3.0
Niby spoko ale bohaterowie zdecydowanie nie zachowują się jakby mieli 40 lat
mybooksandimaginations's review against another edition
4.0
As a plus-sized girl myself, I agree with a lot of what Olivia Dade portrayed in her book. The fat shaming from the general population can be hurtful, is pretty much constant, and every plus sized person deals with it in their own way. And that’s okay. Olivia Dade covered some of the hardships that plus-sized, fat, large, curvy, big-boned people deal with, she doesn’t cover all of them by any means. It was nice reading a book who’s character I identified with so well. I loved the journeys that April and Marcus go on, they are each experiencing different things, but in the end the growth seen by those two characters was lovely to see.
Marcus Caster-Rupp is an actor who portrays Aeneas, in a popular tv show, and writes fan fiction, under the name Book!AeneasWouldNever, of the characters from the books that the tv show is based off of, as well as from the tv show. What most of his fans, and coworkers don’t know is that he is always playing a role, a public personal that he has used for years to hide his shyness and insecurities. April Whittier is a fat (her own words), geologist, who writes fan fiction, under the name, Unapologetic Lavinia Stan, and betas for Marcus at Book!AeneasWouldNever, who also betas for her. After a picture of her Lavinia cosplay goes viral, Marcus reaches out asking for a date. April sure that the date is a PR stunt, still agrees to go. Both characters, together and separately are working through their own insecurities, but will their insecurities drive them apart or help keep them together.
The only reason this book received 4 stars and not 5 is because I didn’t feel like the raunchy scenes were needed. However, the rest of the book was fantastic and really resonated with me. I know that some people wouldn’t mind the sex scenes but for me, most of it was unnecessary. The only thing they really added to the plot was solidifying the fact that Marcus was turned on by April’s body. But, the book did a good job of spelling out that fact without those scenes in my opinion.
Marcus Caster-Rupp is an actor who portrays Aeneas, in a popular tv show, and writes fan fiction, under the name Book!AeneasWouldNever, of the characters from the books that the tv show is based off of, as well as from the tv show. What most of his fans, and coworkers don’t know is that he is always playing a role, a public personal that he has used for years to hide his shyness and insecurities. April Whittier is a fat (her own words), geologist, who writes fan fiction, under the name, Unapologetic Lavinia Stan, and betas for Marcus at Book!AeneasWouldNever, who also betas for her. After a picture of her Lavinia cosplay goes viral, Marcus reaches out asking for a date. April sure that the date is a PR stunt, still agrees to go. Both characters, together and separately are working through their own insecurities, but will their insecurities drive them apart or help keep them together.
The only reason this book received 4 stars and not 5 is because I didn’t feel like the raunchy scenes were needed. However, the rest of the book was fantastic and really resonated with me. I know that some people wouldn’t mind the sex scenes but for me, most of it was unnecessary. The only thing they really added to the plot was solidifying the fact that Marcus was turned on by April’s body. But, the book did a good job of spelling out that fact without those scenes in my opinion.