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A review by paperandspines
Spoiler Alert by Olivia Dade
Did not finish book. Stopped at 45%.
This book is not bad (at least as far as I got) by any means. I enjoyed the writing and the overall story of famous guy/regular girl was fine. I loved the fat rep and genuinely enjoyed April for the most part.
My hang up was the time jumping and the AO3 aspect and the snippets of Marcus’ films at the beginning of the chapters. I’m not a fanfiction person so I have no idea what that realm is like. And I just struggled with the beginning of the chapters. I started losing interest with Marcus and his “I must maintain my public image” thing. I just read another book with this in it and I just don’t enjoy that aspect of this story. Just be yourself, dude. I also looked up spoilers (lol) to see if my prediction for the 3rd act breakup was correct…it was. So I’m kind of glad I stopped while I was ahead. I just wasn’t a fan of the run around happening with these characters. To be late 30s, I just wanted more transparency from Marcus.
My hang up was the time jumping and the AO3 aspect and the snippets of Marcus’ films at the beginning of the chapters. I’m not a fanfiction person so I have no idea what that realm is like. And I just struggled with the beginning of the chapters. I started losing interest with Marcus and his “I must maintain my public image” thing. I just read another book with this in it and I just don’t enjoy that aspect of this story. Just be yourself, dude. I also looked up spoilers (lol) to see if my prediction for the 3rd act breakup was correct…it was. So I’m kind of glad I stopped while I was ahead. I just wasn’t a fan of the run around happening with these characters. To be late 30s, I just wanted more transparency from Marcus.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Fatphobia