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A review by mislachowski
Ship Wrecked by Olivia Dade
4.0
Firstly, I want to thank NetGalley and Avon and Harper Voyager for sharing this ARC with me in exchange for my honest opinions.
This book is a fast hurricane of emotions in the beginning, and the male lead is crushingly mean to our heroine but then you see their first meeting hookup, turned enemies, turn into a delightful friendship but when they take things to lovers’ territory can they make it work with everything in-between them?
Peter is a little socially inept but comes across as a brooding man of few words who recently lost his mother and has a dysfunctional relationship with his father. He needs a big break after working tirelessly for years as an aspiring actor.
Maria is his Swedish goddess co-star, who takes no shit and is completely confident in her body and who she is. She’s also the same woman Peter had a memorable one-night stand with and very same woman tiptoeing from the hotel room early without saying goodbye or leaving any phone number behind. Leaving Peter triggered, hurt, and really pissed off.
They both then get cast in new TV series about Gods of Gates. They spend the next 6 years developing a friendship and barely restrain themselves in the process.
Overall, I liked this book and give it a 3.5-star rating rounded up to 4. Where it fell down with me is that I struggled to connect with the main characters at quite a few turns. I really wanted to see Peter do more to earn Maria’s forgiveness earlier on after his blow up and I felt the few times he did show his support it wasn’t much of a sacrifice on his part as Maria was often asked to sacrifice herself.
But wowsers the dialogue with other cast members and some of the menial back and forth was super witty and laugh-out-loud hilarious. For example, one of my favorite lines that I have decided will become a staple in my life:
“Make like Elsa and let it go”
This book is a fast hurricane of emotions in the beginning, and the male lead is crushingly mean to our heroine but then you see their first meeting hookup, turned enemies, turn into a delightful friendship but when they take things to lovers’ territory can they make it work with everything in-between them?
Peter is a little socially inept but comes across as a brooding man of few words who recently lost his mother and has a dysfunctional relationship with his father. He needs a big break after working tirelessly for years as an aspiring actor.
Maria is his Swedish goddess co-star, who takes no shit and is completely confident in her body and who she is. She’s also the same woman Peter had a memorable one-night stand with and very same woman tiptoeing from the hotel room early without saying goodbye or leaving any phone number behind. Leaving Peter triggered, hurt, and really pissed off.
They both then get cast in new TV series about Gods of Gates. They spend the next 6 years developing a friendship and barely restrain themselves in the process.
Overall, I liked this book and give it a 3.5-star rating rounded up to 4. Where it fell down with me is that I struggled to connect with the main characters at quite a few turns. I really wanted to see Peter do more to earn Maria’s forgiveness earlier on after his blow up and I felt the few times he did show his support it wasn’t much of a sacrifice on his part as Maria was often asked to sacrifice herself.
But wowsers the dialogue with other cast members and some of the menial back and forth was super witty and laugh-out-loud hilarious. For example, one of my favorite lines that I have decided will become a staple in my life:
“Make like Elsa and let it go”