The plot is a little confusing when you try to picture how it will all turn out. The main character Starr has moved to New York to guess what, yep you guessed it to make it big. But as usual she is still a waitress waiting for her big break years later.

This novel should have been more interesting for me as an actor but it really wasn’t sadly. The ‘reality tv’ element was very annoying as I felt it was just lifted from tv and pasted into the novel itself.

Another TV show based on bitches and drama really. However there is supposed to be a ‘mystic’ element however the characters didn’t really stand out they were just human.

Overall, I felt this could have been written better as it seemed as if it’s written for no-one over the age of 12-13 as these days there are sex elements in things but the writing was just so not there for above that age range despite the sexual elements.

Tune in Tomorrow: The Curious, Calamitous, Cockamamie Story Of Starr Weatherby And The Greatest Mythic Reality Show Ever
by Randee Dawn
Fantasy Urban Myth
NetGalley ARC

Starr moved to New York to become a star, but ten years later she's a waitress still waiting for her big break.

Then her break walks into the restaurant and she's offered to audition to be in a reality show, but not one she had ever heard of, or anyone in the human realm.

This book had a really good start, making fun of the falseness of 'Reality TV', a genre I dislike with a passion. I can go to a bar and see people being idiots, watch the news, or scroll social media pages.

There was drama, backstabbing, and a mystery, but for the 'mystic' part, a lot of those characters didn't stand out that much, and that's what I thought when I requested this book from NetGalley. And while some of the mystics were main characters, they weren't brought completely to life, but the human characters, which whom the story/reality show was about, were human.

Sadly though, for me, the writing was a little flat, as if written for kids instead of adults. There is some adult content, not graphic, so this book is not suitable for readers under 14.

But if you're looking for a medium to slow-paced read, with some laughs and the such, it's a decent enough of a story.

2 Stars

This was a delightful and fun romp into a world of 'reality' 'TV' (as noted several times by the MC, it's actually a soap opera). I loved the tenacity and never give up attitude of Starr and loved getting to know all the other characters. This was very well written and I would definitely check out more from Randee Dawn

Also, I totally need a brownie, lol

This is me DNF’ing Tune In Tomorrow at 35%. After 15 chapters, I had hoped I would be transported into the world of this mythic show and enjoying the characters but every new chapter felt like nails on a chalkboard. Instead, I felt more disenchanted with every step forward. The characters are all incredibly one-dimensional and cliche, most of all Starr and Fiona. The mystery of what happened to Amelia and Joseph is dragging on too long. Like, really, the reader and Starr should know more than their names at a third of the way through. Every type of mythic represented- the fauns, pombero, brownies, etc.- feels like the author trying to applaud themselves on knowing different types rather than them making any sense. The worst of all, however, and the reason I’m DNF’ing is that, for a book about a soap opera, this book is BORING. No amount of behind the scenes cattiness or mention of scenes can turn this around for me, which is a shame because I usually LOVE behind the curtain of Hollywood type stories.

**I received this book free from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.**

I really enjoyed this debut novel. The writing was delightful, and the story had enough twists and turns to keep me guessing until the very end. A modern fantasy set in a world of the Mythics, Sam/Samantha/Starr finds success and conflict on a soap-opera-esque "reality" show where "normal human lives" are riveting entertainment for their Mythic fan base. The worldbuilding was creative and clear, with descriptions that paired mythic fantasy with real human settings to bring the set of "Tune in Tomorrow" to life.

I also loved the romance angle, which gave Starr three entirely different love interests, a welcome respite from the "meet cute" trope where you know exactly who the lead character is going to end up with at the end of the book. It was also in keeping with the soap opera theme of the story.

All in all a fun read. I look foward to reading whatever Randee Dawn puts out next!

Thanks to Solaris and NetGalley for access to an ARC so I could review this book.

This is a very unique and fresh story. I really liked the mix of characters. I'm looking forward to reading more from this author.

I like and admire writers who think outside the box, and this one certainly does. However, I found it hard to connect with this book, and the characters. So sorry I didn't like it more, hope other readers will enjoy it more. Than I did.

I’m going to be honest: when I requested this book, I wasn’t paying attention to the summary and I didn’t realize it was fantasy. I thought it was just a comedic look at reality TV. I’m really not a fantasy person, so I couldn’t get into it. But that was my own fault!

This was an entertaining romp about a struggling young actress (Starr Weatherby) who lands a role on a long-running soap opera for mythic creatures (fawns, centaurs, brownies, etc.). These 'mythics' love the show, because they find the petty mundanities of human existence utterly engrossing. As a conceit, it reminds me a bit of Diana Wynne Jones's Lives of Christopher Chant, in which the Living Asheth, a figurehead ruler of a magical ancient-Egypt flavoured kingdom, was utterly engrossed by the wild exoticism of the stories in in a series about a boarding school for girls that Christopher brings her. The Living Asheth is a girl, Christopher reasons, like his sister, and girls like this sort of schlock. And indeed the Living Asheth does, but for very different reasons from his sister. Humans are as exotic to mythics as werewolf vampire lover rivalries are to humans.

So, like the Living Asheth, the fawns and centaurs of this world can't get enough human schlock, and so this show has been fascinating them for literally centuries. And because the mythics grant conditional immortality to the humans who play the roles, the actors on the show have been doing their jobs for literally centuries. But all the sorts of workplace politics that come into play when a newcomer enters an established team are magnified dramatically if the established team has been in place for a hundred years, not merely a decade, so things get messy. One of the actors doesn't want Starr to join the cast; other actors have developed alliances with the grande dame of the series based on decades old exchanges of favours, and the melodramas of life imitate the melodramas of art for a while before things work themselves out in the end.

This book is an undemanding bit of fluff. There are some cute puns about television lingo, which is interpreted differently in the fairy world, and there are some lovely images of mythic locations, but the book doesn't really go very deep in anything it aims to do. In particular, there is a kind of grim, arid claustrophobia to the whole conceit that I think was not intended, but which was really hard to ignore. See, there's only a small core set of actors on this show, and a small set of crew members (who are mythics), who work with each other and see each other every day. Any human extras who are brought in for a day of shooting have their memories wiped before they return to the human world, and any of the permanent cast find themselves unable to talk about the show to anyone in the human world even if they try. And, don't forget, they are functionally immortal, so after a decade or so they have to start cutting ties with their friends and families or else their lack of aging becomes quite awkward to explain. The show makes it impossible to maintain normal human relations.

Yet, because the show likes to maintain the illusion that these are normal humans doing normal human stuff, who don't know anything about mythics, there is also strict division between the human cast and the rest of the mythic world. So people can't simply develop new connections and relations with the mythics in this new world either. They are stuck: the only people they can fully engage with are the actors and crew on the single set of this single show.

How awful. What a dreadful existence. It's presented as a lifeline for Starr, the opportunity for her to reach her fullest acting potential a world that doesn't have much use for what she has to offer (which, as far as I can tell, is mostly that she's a bit of a ham and enjoys overacting). But even though there are a few conversations about the trade-offs that actors make when they become part of this show, I think the true horror of this dull, empty life is not fully appreciated or acknowledged. To be sure, the primary villain is someone who has entirely given herself over to the show, withdrawing from the human world entirely; but then so are the primary love interest(s). (Oh, yes--there's a love triangle. Yawn.) And the only person who has managed to maintain a separate life in the human world has been able to do it for reasons that are not generally replicable.

I think this book could have been very interesting if it had leaned into the darker tradeoffs that go along with the seeming glory of a sparkling magical escape from mundane drudgery. But because it didn't, it was a bit like a soap opera itself: Fluffy, fun, but ultimately unconvincing. And that's fine. I finished it on a train. The world needs books that can be finished on trains.

NB: I received an advanced copy of this book from Netgalley. Inasmuch as I can be sure of such things, I believe that this has not affected the content of my review.

What do you get when you mix mythics and mortals and soap opera levels of drama? You’ll have to Tune in Tomorrow to find out!

Randee Dawn not only provides a funny, creative and attention grabbing story, but the plot is a completely new take on what happens when mythics and mortals meet. Starr Weatherby is your typical waitress-wannabe-actress when unbeknownst to her she is hired for mythical reality TV. With drama not only on stage but pouring out behind the scenes you won’t want to put it down.

While fantasy is a newer genre for me and at times I did find myself having to look up what various mythical creatures were, it was an entertaining book with an eccentric group of strong characters you’re sure to love!

Thank you NetGalley, Solaris and Rebellion Publishing for access to an advance copy to review.

Randee Dawn is a new author for me and after reading tune in tomorrow I'll definitely be picking up her books again.

Tune in tomorrow follows a women called Starr Wetherby while she tries to follow her passion and become a successful actor, while she tries to accomplish this she becomes part of a magical yet dangerous world.

Randee Dawn has created a very unique idea and story plot which although for me took a while at the start to find its legs once I got used to the concept and became in sync with Starr I couldn't put the book down. An element I did enjoy that you don't see often anymore is that the layout of this story had chapter title, which just helped with the whimsical theme of this book.

The characters Randee created were fun yet still realistic in personality and responses, I enjoyed reading about thier adventures and how friendships were formed, although I did enjoy reading about the characters and following the MC acceptance into this new, weird world, I would have like just a little more information on this new world along with a little more information about certain characters as certain players didn't feel as fully fleshed out as other characters even though they still played an important role in the story.

Despite this very small personal issue I had, I still found this a fun read with twists I definitely didn't see coming and a villain you'll be betting against, all mixed in with a romance featuring several teams, although personal I wanted Starr to end up with a different partner lol

I really hope Randee Dawn re-vists Starr and the other characters, I'd especially love to hear more about a certain fawn you meet at the start of the book.

My thanks to both NetGalley and the publisher Rebellion Publishing, Solaris for an advanced copy of this fantasy take on the world of reality television.

Hollywood has always been considered "out there" in its thinking, ways morals and new age thoughts and ideas. They all got their heads in the cloud, sniffing up all that pixie dust, with their crazy ideas, and odd thoughts on old religions. But all good stories about people finding fame start with people from small towns, with big dreams who love the applause and live to hear more, and will do anything to make that fame happen. Even star in a reality show. That's not that popular and actually pretty unknown, to humans that is. Randee Dawn in her novel Tune in Tomorrow: The Curious, Calamitous, Cockamamie Story Of Starr Weatherby And The Greatest Mythic Reality Show Ever tells the story of a young girl plucked from obscurity to be the biggest idol, on the most popular show in all the realities, but our own.

Our hero's story starts in a diner, which provides money for young Starr to go to the many, many, many, auditions that being a struggling actress goes to offer ten years of trying. Fresh from losing one job, to her boyfriend at the time, and losing another to a change in direction for advertising deodorant Starr is drawn to a table of diners who even for her diner seem odd. However their discussion seems filled with entertainment jargon, and she risks her boss's anger, and her job getting their attention, which she does spectacularly, ie not well. Fear of failure allows her to save the situation and she is given a business card for the diners, one who she thinks might have horns, and her life is changed. Soon she finds herself on the biggest reality show in all of the realities, a show behind the Veil as they say, run and for Fae. And things start to get interesting. And dangerous.

A curious and fun book that mixes the mess that is reality television, with the messy lives of actors and fame, with a lot of fantasy tossed in. The book is funny with lots of in- jokes and puns about pop culture, both good and bad. Starr is well developed and the reader roots for her, even when things get odd and weird, which happens a few time. The plotting is good and the story moves well not bogging down and has a nice narrative flow that keeps the pages flipping.

I've seen this book compared to the Jaspar Fforde Tuesday Next stories and that is a good comparison, a lot of differernt worlds, funny jokes and characters and a nice easy story to follow that is enjoyable. A book for fans of the Bravo channel, and for Neil Gaiman fans who miss his stories of the Fae, and what they might be up to today.

An interesting read, not an absolute favorite, was not an “I can’t put this down” but drawn in enough to finish. I’ll have to read more of this author. Thanks to the publisher and net galley for this ARC opportunity

The concept of this book is like nothing I have ever read before! Starr Weatherby, a struggling actress lands a role on the most popular reality tv show in the realm of fantasy and boy, is it a learning curve for her. When I first downloaded my ARC of the book I was little overwhelmed by the length, at nearly 800 hundred pages I wondered if I was about to read War and Peace! But luckily, the story is light, fun and flows so well that I didn’t really notice the length. The language can also get quite flowery, but it does so to reflect the setting. Dawn cleverly shows us how human language works on the other side of the Veil when being used by fantasy creatures. The humans in the story use it in the same way as the story progresses, showing how intertwined they are with the tv show and the world that work in. It is a bit cheesy at times and there are moments where you need to massively suspend your disbelief - but that is the nature of the story. It isn’t supposed to be serious, it is whimsical and escapist fun. Much like reality tv itself.

For anyone who grew up watching soap operas this is the book for you. It mixes in a light element of fantasy, but not so much that it is not accessible to those who don't read fantasy often. The characters are tropes while also being individuals and have nuance. It mixes two words together beautifully and makes you want to keep reading. It is lots of fun to find out what will happen next. You get to become part of the soap opera with all of the characters. There are shenanigans that are believable, even for taking place in another world. I hope there is a sequel to this book!

This ARC was provided to me via Kindle, Rebellion and by #NetGalley. Opinions expressed are completely my own.

While predictable it was still quite enjoyable, fun and enjoyable.

The characters seemed way too stereotypical and cliched: a wide-eyed girl in a new world, the MC's cheerleader the mean girl and the mean girl's sidekick.

While the plot was really interesting and the narration style was fun, the characters ruined all the fun for me

This was a fine read! The story was a bit ridiculous and predictable but still an enjoyable read. This genre/style isn’t something I would typically gravitate too but it was worth giving it a go!

Tune in Tomorrow

[Blurb goes here]

One of the main reasons to read this story, is the writing. This is not one of my preferred genres, never the less, I kept on reading, simply because I enjoyed Randee Dawn's style. It pains me to say that the story is campy and predictable. More than an imaginative tale with an innovative storyline, this turns out to be a bit worn out and predictable feel-good adventure, perfect for those of us who need a respite from the usual fast-paced, danger-in-every-corner novels.

Most of the story is a bit trite, like the main character (Starr), a waitress and wanna be actress. She's hired to play a part on a reality show. There's a catch. The reality show is filmed on "the other side of the veil". A place where creatures of myth, and magic, are real.

That's when the usual suspects appear: the mean-spirited diva who want's to get rid of the newcomer to keep the spotlight shinning over her. The diva's sidekick, who keeps her informed of the main character's every move. The good-guy producer who wants Starr to succeed. World building aside (which is interesting, in my opinion), this books ends up being something that you probably read or watched before.

Never the less, I really think you should give it a chance.

Thank you for the free copy!

Fantastic and unique book.


The author has a magic pen and I was stunned how good this book was