Was that to balance out their gorgeous bodies? Also, I was not sure why she needed to endow both of them with learning/mental health disorders. So I am not sure why she literally applies this double standard to female and male characters. The narrative repeatedly emphasizes the hero’s “lean limbs” and “fit body”. On the other hand, her heroes tend to be unrealistically (think, literally movie star quality) beautiful and sexy. What I find a bit uncomfortable is that on the one hand the author seems to want to challenge the established standards of beauty that in romance novels would be exemplified by a gorgeous, fit, slender heroine. In addition, in both books the hero has a minor learning/medical disorder. The hero on the other hand, is unbelievably fit and sexy. As in book one, we have the heroine who has a larger body and does not fit what would be normally considered the standard notion of beauty.

That being said, I do still have some issues with Dade’s writing and I think I can now put my finger on what it is.

They get to know each other’s backgrounds and become friends before any romantic feelings emerge. Largely, I would say it is because the romance between Alex and Lauren develops gradually over a span of several months. I enjoyed this book much more than the first one. Lauren was hired by the studio to be his minder and keep him out of trouble. Alex is an actor on the same TV show that we learned about in book one. In All the Feels, we follow Alex and Lauren’s story. Something about Dade’s writing just did not agree with me. My main problem with it was the insta-love and I just hated all the sex scenes. In fact, I DNF’ed about half way through. I have to be frank and state up front that I did not like the first book. Last year I read Spoiler Alert by this author, and All the Feels is set in the same world but follows different characters who had only episodic appearances in book 1.

All the feels olivia