This is so good! The gameshow idea is unique and provided some good tension, plus it fostered two great tropes: enemies-to-lovers and forced proximity. I really liked Easton and Amity, but why did he do that??? I understood why Amity didn’t want to be entirely truthful when there were cameras around, so this conflict felt natural, but if I were her, Easton would need to do a little more to earn my forgiveness. I’m glad Bria got a happy ending though, she was a cool side character. I’m excited to read the next book!

What a fun and easy read. I really enjoyed it.Read it in one sitting.Great book to get out of the reading slump. Plus, enemies to lovers trope.You can’t go wrong with that. Would definitely recommend.

*Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for an early copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.*

This book was a sweet contemporary romance that contained themes of adventure, lust, and heartbreak. It starts out as an instant enemies to lovers, but you quickly find yourself rooting for the character's to get over their dislike for the other. It's a unique theme to a romance novel that I have not experienced until now and I eagerly am awaiting the second book in the series to come out! Bravo!

This book was a difficult one for me to get through, I have to admit. I had a lot of issues with its delivery.

A positive for this book is that I have never read a gameshow adult lit before, which gave it a nice novelty factor and I was intrigued as to how this would be incorporated throughout the book. What I struggled with was that this meant the timeframe was mere days and this made the whole enemies-to-lovers almost thrown in just for the sake of it rather than adding to the plot development.

My biggest problem with this novel was its use of repetitive descriptions throughout the book. I think the word "slender" was used repeatedly to describe the majority of the build of most of the competitors, including both main characters (including Easton who, apparently, splits chunks of wood with ease with an axe - it feels a bit contradictory to describe him as a lumberjack with "rippling muscles" when the characters repeatedly refer to him as slender or thin?).
Throughout the book, Amity and Easton appear to just constantly giggle or laugh out loud to themselves whenever they thought something. A couple of times is one thing, but in every chapter? They must have come across as lunatics to other characters.
This one may just be a personal slight, but the use of "princess" as a sarky term of endearment will always rub me the wrong way, no matter how well a book is written. I feel this is an overdone trope.

I found that the novel did not really have much pacing and the ending just felt shallow and forced and existing only to neatly tie up lots of loose ends. I didn't feel connected to any of the characters despite my personal love of reality TV and romance novels. This novel just didn't really get out of the stalls for me unfortunately.

Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for providing an ARC in exchange for an honest review.