Four Fat Babes for All the Feels by Olivia Dade!

Olivia Dade follows up the endlessly charming fandom-inspired romance, Spoiler Alert, with the equally delightful, All the Feels. These two books run parallel to one another so if you happen to pick this one up before you get around to Spoiler Alert: don't fret. The stories are happening simultaneously but you don't necessarily need to have read one to enjoy the other.

Hollywood Superstar, Alex Woodroe, is trying his showrunners patience (in large part due to his utter disgust with the direction his show, God of the Gates, has taken for its final season) and his showrunners have decided to saddle him with a babysitter to keep him out of trouble. Lauren Clegg is doing her jerk of a cousin a favor (and getting well-compensated in the process) by taking a job keeping Alex in check and, as long as Alex doesn't get into any trouble, she can hopefully keep interactions with her childhood bully/cousin to a minimum.

Alex's ADHD makes him a bit impulsive when it comes to decision making and his strong sense of justice tempts him to lash out when he sees someone being cruel or unfair. Lauren, by contrast, has just left a long career as an ER therapist which, in conjunction with her family pressure to avoid making waves, has taught her to exert a lot of self control. Their experiences differ vastly, too, as Alex is wealthy and extremely attractive whereas Lauren is pretty strictly middle class and frequently taunted for being fat and ugly. None of these differences stand in the way of the budding attraction and affection felt between the two and what starts out as a clash of differences quickly morphs into so much more.

I really enjoyed Spoiler Alert and just recently, eagerly, recommended it to a friend. As much as I liked Spoiler Alert, though, I liked All the Feels SO MUCH MORE. Both books feature a fat lady in love and I am a sucker for good fat-rep. In Spoiler Alert, though, the character of April is otherwise conventionally attractive, she's just also fat. In All the Feels, though, Lauren is described as avian in appearance, with a beaklike nose, pale eyebrows and lashes, and a round body with skinnier appendages. What I loved about All the Feels is that Olivia Dade didn't mince words or shy away from her protagonist's appearance. The descriptions of Lauren that came from Alex compared her to birds and Picasso's artwork: he simply found all of those features captivating and he loved to look at her.

I loved the fiercely loyal love that Lauren and Alex shared and I loved getting to watch their relationship morph. As with many romances, they of course had misunderstandings and there were moments when I wanted to shout, "JUST TALK TO EACH OTHER." I would recommend this book to almost anyone who loves romance novels, but I'd want to give the preface that the sex scenes, which don't occur until midway through the book, are very, very descriptive and they don't get dressed up with flowery language.