When April escapes to a cushy state job staffed by folk music-loving musicians, she decides to let her fandom flag fly. His frustration with the show’s plot detours once they run out of published books to follow will feel familiar to despairing GoT fans.Īpril is a freelance geologist who doesn’t like to advertise that she spends most of her free time writing God of the Gates fanfiction. He spends most of his free time in fan forums, and misses them when he tries to step back from his involvement later in the book.
The book includes some of his angst-filled stories, and his commentary on April’s smutty ones. I typically have trouble suspending disbelief when celebrity characters claim to be obsessed fans of their own work, but Marcus’s love for the show and its fan community is reinforced in nearly every chapter. Fanfiction gives him an outlet for his complaints about how the show’s Mediocre Dude™ producers are turning brilliant source material into misogynist claptrap. Thank goodness he can snark anonymously with his online BFF, Ultimate Lavinia Stan. Unfortunately, Marcus’s contract requires that he never publicly critique or share details about the show, something he’s finding increasingly difficult. He’s a huge fan of the books his show is based on, and runs a fanfiction forum devoted to God of the Gates. Marcus is shy, and finds it easier to pretend that he’s a vapid himbo at work, rather than admit that he’s socially awkward, and hiding his dyslexia. Marcus is an actor who got his big break on a Game of Thrones-esque ensemble series, God of the Gates. The sweetness of this cozy romance, and the thoughtful fat representation, kept me from caring about the fandom in-jokes that went over my head. I’m an infrequent fanfiction reader, just because I tend to be far behind in my media consumption, and no one’s interested in my hot takes on ER. This story of a fanfiction writer who falls for the actor she writes about, who is also a secret fanfiction writer, is my new favorite version of that trope.
It also has a classic falling for your penpal storyline, without the slow burn over correspondence that tends to annoy me. It’s a delightful celebrity romance that treats writing sexy fanfiction as a worthy creative pursuit.
I read the first chapter of Spoiler Alert and was sucked into a compulsive reading vortex, becoming annoyed when work or sleep tried to distract me from gobbling up the book. Archetype: Actor/Actress/Celebrity, Beta, STEM, Writer/Author/Librarian
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