Title: All the Feels (Spoiler Alert #2)

Author: Olivia Dade

Publisher: Avon 2020

Genre: Romance

Pages: 416

Rating: 4/5 stars

Reading Challenges: Winter TBR

Alexander Woodroe has it all. Charm. Sex appeal. Wealth. Fame. A starring role as Cupid on TV’s biggest show, Gods of the Gates. But the showrunners have wrecked his character, he's dogged by old demons, and his post-show future remains uncertain. When all that reckless emotion explodes into a bar fight, the tabloids and public agree: his star is falling.

Enter Lauren Clegg, the former ER therapist hired to keep him in line. Compared to her previous work, watching over handsome but impulsive Alex shouldn’t be especially difficult. But the more time they spend together, the harder it gets to keep her professional remove and her heart intact, especially when she discovers the reasons behind his recklessness…not to mention his Cupid fanfiction habit.

When another scandal lands Alex in major hot water and costs Lauren her job, she’ll have to choose between protecting him and offering him what he really wants—her. But he’s determined to keep his improbably short, impossibly stubborn, and extremely endearing minder in his life any way he can. And on a road trip up the California coast together, he intends to show her exactly what a falling star will do to catch the woman he loves: anything at all. 

This was a good contemporary romance, but it deals with some heavy things. I absolutely adored Alex and Lauren’s back-and-forth banter. Those scenes between the two are my favorites in this book. Their romantic relationship was a bit harder to connect with. Something about the way the romantic scenes were written just didn’t land for me. I didn‘t see enough emotional and intellectual connection between the two characters. I really wanted to see more of that and less of the sexy scenes. I think that’s the first time that I’ve ever written that sentence. The passages that really delved into body image and the treatment of people were powerful. I was thankful that Dade didn’t skim over these topics or conversations but dove into them. The book was a bit disjointed at parts that kept it from being an absolute great book.

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