It makes Spoiler Alert character driven despite it’s predictability. It’s difficult to erase one’s history and start over, and this book proves that. Much of this book is centered around the insecurities both of them have lived with all their lives, which wasn’t helped at all by their parents. It’s known to the reader early on, and had me practically yelling at Marcus to just tell her already, but his reasoning made sense.

Their relationship is easy, but there’s a really good reason why.

Marcus and April have a ton of chemistry together. Both of them come with their baggage, but it might be Marcus who keeps the biggest secret, the one that can spell ruin for them if he makes just one tiny slip.Īs a romance Spoiler Alert is predictable, but it’s still fun. It starts as a publicity stunt, but they’re surprised to learn they actually find each other interesting and someone they can slowly open up to. Surprisingly and unexpectedly, so does Marcus, and he asks her out. She’s kept her hobby under wraps, but, as she starts a new job where three of her new colleagues have formed a truly bad folk band, she decides to start to reveal herself, by posting a full body image of herself in a Lavinia costume to Twitter. As the real Marcus, he hates his story line as the series wraps up and has spent the last two years writing fan fiction anonymously, becoming best online friends with Unapologetic Lavinia Stan.Īpril is a plus-size geologist who has shipped Aeneas and Lavinia and writes fan fiction based around their story. As the dimwitted actor, he only works out and styles his hair. Marcus is the golden haired, dimwitted actor playing a fictionalized Aeneas based on a fictional book series inspired by The Aeneid. Off screen, though, he’s intelligent just dyslexic. It proved to be a bit of a crash course in both fan fiction and Twitter, and I’m still not quite sure I understand how either operates, but it was fun, light, and fluffy, and just slightly off from what I expected from a romance. Of course, it also mentioned fan fiction, of which I have exactly zero experience with (I can say little more about Twitter), but I figured I’d be able to figure things out.

I prefer Greek mythology, but did enjoy reading The Aeneid by Virgil, so the mere mention of Aeneas in the book description was more than enough for me to hit the Request button. One Sentence Summary: It starts as a publicity stunt for handsome actor Marcus to go on a date with plus-size fan April, but it quickly becomes more, until their long-held secrets threaten to rip them apart.Īctor Marcus Caster-Rupp has played a fictional version of Aeneas in a long-standing TV series, and I think that’s what drew me to Spoiler Alert.

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