Marcus and April start dating, but eventually the truth comes out and he breaks April’s trust. He has his reasons, but mostly it was trust. But Marcus chooses to stay silent about who he is. April had become his best online friend and now he’s with her in person. When Marcus asked April what her fanfic name was, he realized that she was the person he’s been talking to for the past two years. He played the fake Marcus, but April saw parts of him that went deeper. He was genuinely attracted to April and asked her out on a date. When the trolls came out saying that someone like Marcus wouldn’t date her, Marcus saw it and responded. She finally shared a cosplay picture with her face on twitter. But she was also someone who learned to not care what other people thought of her. April was insecure at times about her weight, especially because of her parents and some guys she dated. So much! Her strength and humor kept me rooting for her throughout the book. But I was really happy that he ended up being so smart and loving.

That good looking celebrity that acts fake all the time. But the relationship with April and Marcus kept me wanting to read. That tends to happen with fandom/fanfic type books. This was a fun read, but it did take me a bit to get into it. 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?

And when he discovers she’s actually Unapologetic Lavinia Stan, his closest fandom friend, he has one more huge secret to hide from her. 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.Įven though their first date is a disaster, Marcus quickly realizes that he wants much more from April than a one-time publicity stunt. When she decides to post her latest Lavinia creation on Twitter, her photo goes viral. A hardcore Lavinia fan, she’s hidden her fanfiction and cosplay hobby from her “real life” for years-but not anymore. Immediately.Īpril Whittier has secrets of her own. But if anyone ever found out about his online persona, he’d be fired. 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. 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. Olivia Dade bursts onto the scene in this delightfully fun romantic comedy set in the world of fanfiction, in which a devoted fan goes on an unexpected date with her celebrity crush, who’s secretly posting fanfiction of his own.

Spoiler alert by olivia dade