4 Stars
Is this really how this works?
If you’ve read the other reviews, you’ll know this is the author’s version of a TV reality show like Dancing with the Stars. Stone Nielson has been in his family’s realty show set in the Alaskan wilderness (not too wild) for years and plays his part in it as a strong, quiet, survivalist. He’s roped into another realty show called The Dance Off and partnered with a 4-year veteran of the show who’s never won named Gina Morales who is Puerto Rican via New York City. The show’s producers want them to fake a budding romance during the series. The writing of the book follows the course of the show with good descriptions of what goes into making a realty series. I’m not a fan of most reality-based shows, so I can’t say how accurate the book is, but the author knows how to make this read like it is how everything works. At 362 pages, it dragged for me, but I did enjoy the mechanics of both The Dance Off and Living Wild. Alexis Daria does a great job of giving both characters interesting personalities, who do grow as the story progresses. If you’re a fan of any reality show you will enjoy the story. I was given an ARC of the book by NetGalley, and this is my honest opinion.
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