A review by literarylocd
Ship Wrecked by Olivia Dade

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

2.5

Would i recommend: No

TLDR at the end 

What i liked: 

  • fat mcs being horny and finding love 
  • Maria MF Ivarsson. my queen, my wife, my one true love. what an icon. a legend. thee moment. i love that she doesn’t compromise her wants for the sake of others. and she’s not afraid of losing her job to uphold her values and beliefs.
  • “It’s a job, Peter. Only a job. Not worth my happiness.”

What i didn’t like: 

  • the mmc is super immature and just not sexy. he’s a massive ****.
    like okay you’ve got a dead mommy and your dad doesn’t understand you. get a therapist lad. He’s also a manipulative arsehole who thinks Maria should follow him until the ends of the earth because ‘if she loved him she wouldn’t leave him’. have a day off
  • this story takes place over 6 years but we don’t get to see much of them in between. we see them get to know each other and then we see them again being super familiar. it felt kinda strange 
  • maria’s only personality traits are that she’s genuinely a nice person, super sexy and swedish. and peter’s is being insufferable. 
  • “She was about to turn thirty, and it showed.” first of all, ew. second of all, i hated this so much with every fibre of my being. especially when the man saying this is about 9/10 years older than her. 
  • This book has A LOT of cameos (from the previous books) which started out cool but ended super convoluted. It was just a bunch of exposition on the page that the reader just didn’t need. The story would have worked the same way without all the unnecessary explanations. 

TLDR; immature MMC, FMC deserves more. a bunch of corny Swedish jokes. Olivia Dade has better books. Read one of those instead. 
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