Thursday, February 23, 2023

Ship Wrecked

Ship Wrecked by Olivia Dade, 403 pages

Peter and Maria had a steamy one-night stand before Maria mysteriously left without warning (Peter didn't even get Maria's last name). While both were ready to write it off as a fun, if short, experience, that becomes problematic when they're cast opposite each other in the popular epic TV fantasy drama, Gods of the Gates. Even worse, because their characters are shipwrecked on a deserted island, their entire storyline is literally just the two of them, and they must spend years on an isolated Irish island with simmering sexual tension between them, and between their characters.

This is the third installment in Dade's series focusing on the actors of Gods of the Gates (which is so obviously Game of Thrones that I can tell exactly who these characters are meant to parallel) and while I absolutely loved the first two, I think this one might be my favorite. Like the other books, this one puts fat characters front and center (still a rarity in romance), though unlike the others, these fat characters are the actors themselves, as opposed to their off-screen love interests. Also, this one has a beautiful story of finding family through friends and through adoption, which really resonated with me. I will enthusiastically recommend any of Dade's books in this series, as they're funny, sweet, and skewer Game of Thrones in the way that it deserves.

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