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Spoiler Alert by Olivia Dade

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taliaalongi's review against another edition

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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? It's complicated

4.25


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melodybanner's review against another edition

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

3.0


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diana_raquel's review against another edition

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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

3.75

“Please tell me people who look like us can be loved.
Please tell me people who look like us can be desired.
Please tell me people who look like us can have happy endings.” 

This book has been on my radar for quite some time, due to the fact that involves the world of fan fiction. As a fan girl myself I found myself attracted to it. And the plus size representation was a plus! 

I really enjoyed this book. Is it the best goddam romance that I ever read? No. But it is a light, cute, heartwarming romance about a fan girl meeting her celebrity crush that its also her online best friend. Its a good summer reading! 

Tully recommend it if you want a light, cute summer reading!


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cor_luz's review against another edition

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

2.75


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frantic_vampire's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional funny hopeful lighthearted medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

Spoiler Alert was an absolute delight to read!It’s a love letter to fat girls and fandom. I loved it so, so much. This is one of those books that I wish I could just curl up between the pages and never leave. It was filled with so love for fandom and fanfic culture that I felt right at home. It was also one of those books were I actually felt seen. As someone who is fat, I loved getting to see April, a fat girl, find love and be accepted for who she is and not have someone try to change the way she looks. It was just so nice. And Marcus was an absolute sweetheart! He was so understanding and protective of April. It was just swoon-worthy! 😊

I think I might have found a new auto-buy author. This book had me feeling all the feels, and I honestly can’t wait to pick up the next book. Spoiler Alert is getting five out of five stars!

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sreddous's review against another edition

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

4.0

There's a lot to like about this book. It's refreshing to see fat characters use calm and straightforward words to advocate for themselves in relationships and to open up about their insecurities. It's refreshing to see a fat main romantic character who (mostly) carries themself with confidence! Good stuff! 

The sex scenes are goooooooood. Really good descriptions, really easy to get immersed in, good pacing, nice creative things going on. Great stuff there!! 

I think what makes this not be a 5-star experience for me is that I feel like we don't get enough of an actually-deep emotional connection between Marcus and April. I sort of had a hard time trying to figure out why I didn't really feel like I connected to THEIR connection. Like... I'm definitely the target audience for this. I, too, have my share of AO3 stories written and bookmarked, and the idea that "Marcus is based on a real celebrity" eh, didn't bother me, because it's not like he's EXACTLY like "the real person" he's based on (I feel like lots of literary characters are probably based on real people anyway). So that didn't take me out of the experience.

I think what kept me from being very immersed most of the time is that the book tried to juggle the following topics in the context of its own universe:

1. Marcus is a celebrity who plays a character that is popular in fandom.
2. April and her friend group write sexually-explicit fanfic of that character.
3. April has to separate 'TV characters' from the 'real person Marcus' she's dating, while she's still writing sexually-explicit fanfiction of that character.
4. Marcus is hiding that he, too, likes sexually-explicit fanfiction.
5. Marcus is also "trying not to be seen as just the characters he plays/the persona he puts on for the paparazzi" but as a real person.

I feel like.... items 3-5 sort of... don't go that well together? I guess it's the secrecy stuff that makes everything feel a little shallow and tense in a not-fun way. Like, if Marcus was like "lmao yeah I actually do read and enjoy plenty of that stuff even though it ofc can't be called canon" on their first date, then I think he and April could actually bond over their shared hobbies. But they don't do that, so I don't reeeally see why April being like "I'm a geologist" just about literally gives Marcus an erection at the dinner table lmao. I think I scratched my head for most of the book, thinking, "Why...do you guys like each other?" We were throwing around the word "love" on page 295, and I was still thinking, "I kinda don't see why yet".

So yeah. I think this could be tightened up in a way that actually explores these characters connecting and bonding over shared hobbies and building chemistry, but as-is their actual romantic connection feels surface level and a biiiiiiiiiiit too fast-paced. Not that 100% of literary romances need to be slow-burn, but I feel like this one was still a bit too fast for how serious things got.

Overall, though, I still enjoyed this. Some of the best sex scenes I've read in a while, definitely recommend!! 

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just_klaudia's review against another edition

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

2.75


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kay_arielle's review against another edition

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emotional hopeful 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? It's complicated

4.5


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imaginingly's review against another edition

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emotional funny inspiring reflective 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

4.0

bruh the beginning made me feel like i was having a stroke i had no idea what was going on but whew it is a bit spicy after you get to know the characters more and the writing was beautiful throughout those explicit scenes

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mariakureads's review against another edition

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

4.0

Not my first Olivia Dade book but I think it's the first of her works that has blown up and received so much hype that I didn't realize that it was THE same Dade who I've read before.

The writing on this book is the same from what I remembered from past reads and drew me in and I loved it. It was modern and witty, fun and a bit sassy thanks the main female MC, April. April feels a bit familiar, can't place her exactly or what about her feels familiar, but she's smart, opinionated, sassy, witty, and writes fanfiction. I mention the fanfiction because it plays a pretty large part within the book because apparently the male MC too writes fanfiction for the very same fandom... But he's also the leading man for it.

Overall I liked the book and found it to be an easy read but being a fan of fanfiction, this was weird for me to see in a published book. Some chapters were set up to open to look like an AO3 fic, chapter title and tags and all, so that was just so weirdly off-putting for me as a reader. Just as weird as thinking that any actor is writing fanfics about the show their starring in to write fix it fics so personally that always took me away from the story and it's pacing and became a bit hard to get back into the actual story.

It's nice to have romance books featuring older main characters and supporting cast. Especially now that I get older, so I do appreciate that Dade tends to have books with MCs in their 30's and older.

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