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Olivia Dade
Book
December
2023

Review:

I really enjoyed this story! I think I’m a little tired of the online friends trope, so it was kinda hard to get into. I really liked the body positivity and the complexity of the characters, though. She did a great job at making me interested. Are about who they were and why I wanted to read about them. One thing that annoyed me a little was there was no reference to what happened to Alex at the end of the book. He was blacklisted, and then we get nothing else?!? Maybe there is another book that explains that, but it definitely frustrated me. It's a solid read, though.

Trigger Warnings:
Ableism, Body shaming, Bullying, Emotionally abusive parents, Fatphobia, Sexism, and Sexual harassment (mentioned)

Synopsis From Book:

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?
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