DNF @ ~40%

Okay. My biggest problem with this book is the marketing. The blurb I read when requesting this ARC was about a group of internet celebrities in a mansion, completing some type of reality tv show.

This is not what the book was about.

Perhaps this occurs in the second half of the book. But if this is what the ENTIRE blurb is about, I expect to at least read about the mansion in the first half of the story? But that is not what happened.

Instead, (the first half of) the book is about Emma - a fame-hungry young woman who becomes weirdly obsessed and kind of stalkerish about another celebrity (of course, ridiculously handsome, rich male). EVERYTHING that I read was just about her rise to fame through manipulation.

Nothing about a reality show. Nothing about other celebrities. Nothing about a mansion.

What I did read was okay enough. It was easy to read and had an unexpected side-story about a side character with Down Syndrome. Sadly, his part in the story as a tool of manipulation. Ick.

Overall, the characters were pretty one-dimensional and I hardly cared about the story. Even with the craving for trashy, celebrity fun going into it.


Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for providing me with an ALC in exchange for an honest review!