
Member Reviews

I accepted an invitation to review this, which said I had liked Liane Moriarty’s Apples Never Fall, so I expected something on the same lines. Unfortunately, I liked nothing about this book. The concept of the reality game show was not clear, and I had no idea of the purpose of it. The six characters were supposed to be successful in their own fields, "Iconic", but were all egotistical and thoroughly nasty, and set out to do down their fellow competitors from the start. The social media posts were annoying and also nasty. If this is meant to show where reality TV is taking us, then let the world beware, but I don't think the author had such a high-minded intention, as she gives a list of content guidance at the beginning as a warning to readers. In alphabetical order we have: abuse within a relationship, death, murder and suicide, alcohol and drug abuse, violence, stalking, blood, injury and descriptions of a corpse. mental illnesses and mental ableism, accusations of child abuse and pedophilia!! There's not much left for her to base another novel on.