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A Pair of Romance Reviews

The Wedding Date by Jasmine Guillory

All the Feels by Olivia Dade

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The Wedding Date Like many books I’ve been reading lately, especially the romances, I’m pretty sure this came across my radar because of other Cannonballers. It’s the story of Alexa and Drew, who meet in an elevator and have some time to get to know each other when the elevator gets stuck. Drew is in town for his ex’s wedding and doesn’t have a date, and he impulsively asks Alexa to be his date. She agrees. Drew isn’t interested in having a girlfriend, and he […]

Size Inclusivity in Romance

Spoiler Alert by Olivia Dade

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This romance centers on April and Marcus. April is heavily involved in the Gods of the Gates fandom (a Game of Thrones type of show) and decides to post a picture on Twitter of herself in cosplay. Because she is fat, because the character she is cosplaying as is not, and because there is still a lot of socially approved fatphobia in the world, she gets a lot negative comments (though she also gets a lot of positive reinforcement from other comments, which is nice). […]

“Dr. Matthew Vine,” she said, then raised a mocking eyebrow. “The Third. How wonderful.”

At First Spite by Olivia Dade

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What do you do when your fiancé dumps you after you quit your job and bought him the Spite House of his dreams? Athena Greyson moves to into the spite house in Harlot Bay, finds a job and starts rebuilding her life. The problem is, the spite house is very very close to her ex’s brother’s house. The brother, Dr Matthew Vine the f*cking Third, who frequently objected to the engagement and encouraged Johnny to break-up with Athena. The houses are not only very close, […]

I learned so many Scandinavian swears!

Ship Wrecked (Spoiler Alert, #3) by Olivia Dade

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Ship Wrecked is the third and final book in Olivia Dade’s series about actors from a Game of Thrones-esque TV show finding love. This one follows co-stars Maria and Peter, who film alone on a small Irish island for six years, and build an intense bond. I continue to like not love this series, unfortunately. I’m hoping eventually I will wholeheartedly five-star love a book by Olivia Dade again (the only one so far is the excellent Teach Me) but it hasn’t happened. I suppose […]

I want to like it!

Ship Wrecked by Olivia Dade

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The thing is that I want to like Dade a lot more than I actually do. I keep putting these books on hold hoping that I’ll enjoy the execution as much as the premise, but as it were there’s a consistent mismatch. Of all the novels so far, as it were, I think that this book held the most promise for me. I am a sucker for relationships built over time and UST banter, and the set up here seems ideal: Maria and Peter are […]

No one in their right mind would unironically refer to a sexy grown man as sötnos

Ship Wrecked by Olivia Dade

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Maria and Peter share one unforgettable night of passion together, which leads to some awkwardness after Maria leaves without so much as a note the next morning. They then discover that they’re about to become co-stars on the incredibly popular fantasy show Gods of the Gates. As their characters’ storylines involved being ship-wrecked on a small island by themselves, Maria and Peter, along with a small film crew are basically supposed to stay on location for years, and after they work through the awkwardness of […]



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