Ship Wrecked by Olivia Dade
Rating: ✩✩✩✩✩
Olivia Dade’s series centering around the fictional “Gods of the Gates” TV series has been one of my favorite contemporary series and this continuation in that world has firmly cemented Dade’s position as a favorite author. This book drops the reader right into the hotness of our fair protagonists and whirlwinds away from there. Maria and Peter are very fun characters with appropriately tragic backstories that not only fuel their behavior, but give them areas to grow. The background of the TV show, the other characters we know, and the way all the stories converge at a convention weaves together really well. Dade’s continued use of fat characters, complete with honest depictions of what being fat can be like (even for confident movie stars), is fantastic. My only note is that the pacing of the story is sometimes tough. Not because it is too slow, this is a page turner for sure, but because the slow burn encompasses six entire years and two continents. Sometimes it felt like soooooo much time was hand-waved away that the suspension of disbelief is a little hard to maintain. Overall though this does not detract too much from the story and I would still classify this as a five-star read.
Published by: Avon and Harper Voyage Release Date: 15 November 2022
1 comment:
Oh wow! I have this arc and will be getting to it soon, and now I just can't wait. Terrific review!
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