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June 20, 2022

REVIEW: Big Wild Love Adventure by Julianna Keyes

KaetrinB Reviews / Book ReviewsContemporary / dating show / Panama / Reality-TV3 Comments

After being ditched at the altar, Emmy Shaw’s heart, like her dented food truck, is definitely not open for business. Deeply in debt to her parents and evicted from her apartment, she takes a friend’s drunken dare and fills out an application for a new dating-adventure reality show. She never ... more >

March 20, 2020

REVIEW: The Gravity of Us by Phil Stamper

SiriusB Reviews / B Reviews Category / Book Reviewsastronaut / Reality-TV / YA gay romance4 Comments

As a successful social media journalist with half a million followers, seventeen-year-old Cal is used to sharing his life online. But when his pilot father is selected for a highly publicized NASA mission to Mars, Cal and his family relocate from Brooklyn to Houston and are thrust into a media ... more >

October 4, 2017

REVIEW: All I Want for Halloween by Marie Harte

KaetrinB Reviewsbaking / cake / Contemporary / Motorcycles / Reality-TV4 Comments

Dear Marie Harte, I’ve been having trouble settling to read lately and, I’ll admit, when I first started All I Want for Halloween, I had my doubts it would work for me. But I ended up being, somewhat reluctantly, charmed by Gear and Sadie, in spite of it all. Sadie ... more >

January 19, 2017

REVIEW: The Perils of Paulie by Katie MacAlister

JayneB- Reviews / Book Reviews / C+ ReviewsContemporary / family relationships / Reality-TV / road-romance2 Comments

Sheltered by a strict father, Paulina Rostakova spends her time working for the family business and yearning for some grand adventure. So when contestants are needed for a reality show reenacting an historic 1908 car race across the US, Asia, Russia, and Europe, Paulie jumps at the chance to get ... more >

September 28, 2014

REVIEW: Surviving America’s Sweetheart by Lori Green

JayneB Reviewshumorous / novella / Paranormal / Reality-TV5 Comments

What would happen if the Bachelorette found herself in the Hunger Games? Riley Davenport has it all. She’s America’s Sweetheart, the lucky woman seeking her true love from a pool of twenty-five handsome bachelors. All she has to do is survive. The odds are stacked against her. With Lucifer and ... more >

February 24, 2013

REVIEW: Makeover Miracle by Charmaine Ross

JaneC ReviewsAustralia / Contemporary / full figured / Reality-TVComments Off on REVIEW: Makeover Miracle by Charmaine Ross

Dear Ms. Ross: I thought the blurb of this book was effective because it conveyed that it wouldn’t be the run of the mill reality tv show but one that featured a woman who would undergo an internal transformation as well as an external one.  I love makeover shows because ... more >

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