Wednesday, July 29, 2020

Can't-Wait Wednesday: Spoiler Alert by Olivia Dade

 "Can’t-Wait Wednesday" is a weekly event, hosted over at Wishful Endings, that spotlights upcoming releases we're eagerly anticipating.

This week, what's really got my pages in a twist is...

Spoiler Alert
Publication Date: October 6, 2020
Paperback, 320 pages, Avon
Genres: Adult, Contemporary, Romance

Olivia Dade bursts onto the scene in this delightfully fun romantic comedy set in the world of fanfiction, in which a devoted fan goes on an unexpected date with her celebrity crush, who’s secretly posting fanfiction of his own.

Marcus Caster-Rupp has a secret. While the world knows him as Aeneas, the star of the biggest show on TV, Gods of the Gates, he's known to fanfiction readers as Book!AeneasWouldNever, an anonymous and popular poster.  Marcus is able to get out his own frustrations with his character through his stories, especially the ones that feature the internet’s favorite couple to ship, Aeneas and Lavinia. But if anyone ever found out about his online persona, he’d be fired. Immediately.

April Whittier has secrets of her own. A hardcore Lavinia fan, she’s hidden her fanfiction and cosplay hobby from her “real life” for years—but not anymore. When she decides to post her latest Lavinia creation on Twitter, her photo goes viral. Trolls and supporters alike are commenting on her plus-size take, but when Marcus, one half of her OTP, sees her pic and asks her out on a date to spite her critics, she realizes life is really stranger than fanfiction.

Even though their first date is a disaster, Marcus quickly realizes that he wants much more from April than a one-time publicity stunt. And when he discovers she’s actually Unapologetic Lavinia Stan, his closest fandom friend, he has one more huge secret to hide from her.

With love and Marcus’s career on the line, can the two of them stop hiding once and for all, or will a match made in fandom end up prematurely cancelled?

My Thoughts

I feel like this is a fanfiction story about the actors in Game of Thrones. Obviously, the TV show the character works on won’t be GoT, but it’s close enough to make me really curious. I do know that these “fanfiction” type stories can sometimes go very, very bad, like that icky book written about the misconstrued Supernatural convention years ago and the awful Destiel ship wars that have made it hard to even enjoy the fandom anymore. But I digress. Spoiler Alert seems cute, but I’m debating on whether or not I should buy a physical copy of this one versus an ebook copy. I like the cover, but I tend to not keep contemporaries unless I truly love them. I’m conflicted.

What book are you waiting for this Wednesday?

2 comments:

  1. Cute pick! Not my kind of read but I hope you positively love it once you get to read it!


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