alright. this book was real good. i super enjoyed it. the characters are chef's kiss. the plot is mr. darcy level fantastic. the writing is tortured poets department wonderful. all the things and more for this book. read it!!!

Thanks, Net Galley!
After a reality show twist, celebrities are forced to survive on a deserted island. After the show, all of the characters return to their lives while facing consequences around what was revealed during their reality debut. This story unravels the how and why behind their truths and actions.
I enjoyed the premise of this book and thought there were some really great plot twists. However, some scenes were not well thought out and were straight up awkward (i.e. the sex scene). The character development also lacked, and I didn't feel a connection with any particular person.
This is a fun vacation read if you need something quick and entertaining.

An unexpected 4.5 stars (this book was sent to me in exchange for my honest review.) Sooo… when I started reading Star Survivor, I was expecting a light, fluffy book about 4 celebrities who thought they were traveling to play survivors on a show, but were accidentally dropped off on an actual deserted island. As I got further into the book, I was surprised to find, not a story about whiny, privileged celebrities stumbling around with the runs from drinking unfiltered water, but, instead - real people working together actually surviving. The characters were well thought out, likable, and relatable. The story was very well written and I really enjoyed how new information was introduced and how the characters grew from their experiences. This book was not what I expected - in the best way.

The concept of this book was good, celebrity survivor, however, it failed to deliver. While the four celebrities are on their way to take part in a survivor-esque tv show, their helicopter crashes, and they need to work together to survive for real until they can be rescued.

For me, I found the characters to lack any real depth, none of them were fleshed out enough. The dialogue was forced and the pacing all wrong.

That said, if you like the TV show “I’m a celebrity get me out of here”, you might enjoy this book.

Thank you to NetGalley for a copy of this ARC in return for my honest review.

With thanks to Netgalley, for the review copy - I loved this book!

The book focuses on what, at first, appears to be a celebrity survival programme set on a luxurious island. But it quickly becomes clear that something has gone horribly wrong.

Much of the storyline focuses on the lives of Zoe, Emily, June and Toby - the four self-obsessed celebrities - as they learn to survive, with some vivid and honest description; and also as they change their perceptions of themselves and of each other.

If you enjoy a tense thriller, you'll enjoy this book!

Thanks to NetGalley and The Book Guild for providing me with a free ARC in exchange for an honest review! All opinions are my own.

Star Survivor tells the story of four unlikely celebrities who find themselves in an unusual shared predicament! They have all agreed to participate in a "survivor-esque" type reality show for various personal reasons. However, not long into their journey it becomes clear that something has gone terribly wrong. These unlikely friends will have to band together to survive and will learn a lot about each other and themselves along the way!

Just once things seem to be somewhat resolved, the four main characters are left with more questions than answers. Will they be able to figure out the truth of what happened to them?

This book was a lot of fun and would make a great beach read! I loved the concept and the characters. However, sometimes I found myself getting a bit lost in the conversations between the characters as they jumped around in the first half. This could partly be due to adapting to some of the UK slang and language. While I enjoyed the second half, it did seem to jump around the timeline a good bit and maybe didn't flesh out some of the different story arcs of the characters as well as it could have. However, this is overall a quick fun read!

Thank you to NetGalley and The Book Guild for providing this book, with my honest review below.

I really enjoyed Star Survivor which brings a mix of intrigue and a great premise. Four celebrities, one of which, Zoe, far outpaces the rest find themselves stranded on the wrong island while en route to a reality show. After quickly reconciling that they aren’t going to be whisked away to luxury digs after pretending to be roughing it on the island, the foursome finds commonalities in that they are all running from something.

They eventually piece together that their accident may not have been a true accident, and while this portion of the book went by quickly it was my favorite part. I love survivor novels and mystery, and this brought the perfect blend of both. While some character studies and some of the plot that could have been expanded on, I enjoyed this quick read that pulled me in and wouldn’t easily let go!

Loved the idea- the book itself not so much. It is so poorly written that it was a chore to finish it. Do yourself a favor and save your money!

This wild ride was not what they signed up for. I still don’t know how I feel about it. I didn’t love it I didn’t hate it. It was interesting how once they realized this wasn’t part of the show they banded together to survive. I liked how they kept in touch when getting back to their new normal lives. Thank you to netgalley for this free advanced copy in exchange for my honest opinion

This was fun but the ending felt very rushed and kinda anticlimactic.
Good premise though - liked how the opinion of the characters could be seen to change in the paper depending on how long they’d be lost! depending

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Zoe Stenson, June Sharp, Toby Masters, and Emily Chase are set to star in the reality TV show Star Survivor, pretending to survive for cameras. However, they are accidentally left on a deserted South Pacific island, forcing them to switch spotlights for spearfishing and beach finds.

A debut novel (I believe) this good? SIGN ME UP! 🤩Finished this in 24 hours because its THAT fast paced. I enjoyed this book, although I couldn't figure out who was talking to who at times 😅 I'm not a fan of a third person POV but I ATE THIS BOOK. That's one thing about a human eh? You only get to say YOLO if you are in a brink of death and if you're lucky to get out alive, you do things differently after and if not? You live with regrets. I enjoyed the friendship formed in this book especially that they are in a different age group with different personalities. One is putting on a facade because she doesn't want to taint her popularity, one is a mother losing her shit because of potty training, one who is famous with girls and one who entered because she recently broke up with her ex husband. I liked how strong their characters are. The way they do a living in unique ways.

It is true that you will not see what you are capable of unless its from another human watching you. Like Zoe who questions her capability because she is usually dictated on what to do but her personality really shows when she was chosen to decide on what to do next.

I did not see the plot twist tho 😅 I was not expecting that. Toby ending with *toot* really made my jaw drop.

Thanks to NetGalley for the advanced reader copy.

The premise of this was juicy and the opening scene (reality stars jumping out of a helicopter in a storm!) was the appetizer for what I hoped was a fun read. But the details of the opening scene felt so incongruent that I couldn't really continue. The group is standing in the middle of a storm so strong that a helicopter can't land on the island they're meant to be on, but the characters have regular conversations with each other, with no sense of the weather. And another character finds that he's covered in ants and is being bitten by mosquitoes? The details were so unrealistic that I couldn't continue.

Let me start off by saying I really enjoyed the first half of this book, the idea was extremely interesting and I’m an avid watcher and lover of all kinds of survival shows and movies, this however I think is one of the issues.

If you know anything about survival, I mean anything, you know the number one rule is you have to BOIL any water you find. You can’t just drink it straight from the pond! After I read this I couldn’t stop thinking about it and I’m sad to say it took me out of the story. I kept waiting for the other shoe to drop, who was going to get sick from drinking the unboiled water ??!! It just seems like such a basic thing for survival to completely gloss over.

Other than that I enjoyed the multiple POVs this book had, even if some of the characters seemed like they weren’t as interesting or like able as others, they eventually became enjoyable.

I give this book 3 stars because I enjoyed most of it and I think it’s definitely worth a try if you enjoy a funny survival story (even if they are ignoring basic principles of survival) and if you enjoy reading books about celebrities. Had a touch of romance at the end but I wouldn’t call it a romance per se.

Imagine a certain top celebrity show. A group of stars are left on a deserted island to take part in a reality TV show called Star Survivor. Zoe Stenson is a Hollywood star, Toby Masters and author, Emily, Chase and influenza and June Sharpe, a TV celebrity.
Whilst they think they’ve signed up for a show where they will be living in five star luxury. Once the cameras aren’t rolling. They know that during the day they will live in the wild.

Things start to go wrong when they’re in a storm. The helicopter leaves them at the wrong south Pacific Island The bags they have taken with them are no use. There is nothing there and they have to live as they signed up for as survivors. They hope the world is looking for them, but as the weeks go on hope begins to fade.

What is happening at home? Are they being missed? Is the production company in trouble? Why are they on the wrong island?

I don’t really want to say too much and give the plot away, but it’s safe to say that this is a fantastic holiday Read. I really like the characters , and the way that they were bought together. Many thanks to Netgalley and the publishers for the opportunity to see an ARC of this book.

I wanted to like this book but I just found it incredibly hard to get through. It had redeeming qualities like the survival story, a romance, and a plot twist but the pace read as incredibly slow and spanned over years in such a short book

Enjoyable and easy to read, the perfect beach read!

Being marooned on a tropical island, four celebrities fight for survival in what should have been a cushy gig as participants on a reality tv show but ends up as something quite different when they are dropped off on the wrong island in a freak tropical storm.

We follow the viewpoint of each of the four – world-famous actress Zoe, children’s author Toby, morning TV host June and mumfluencer Emily – while they try to come to terms with their situation and fight to survive on whatever food they can find. Forging new friendships along the way, they all have to rely on each other despite their obvious differences, and hope against hope that they will be found in time.

This is not the type of book you think about for days after finishing. However, I thoroughly enjoyed myself while reading it and was happy to find that the characters were fully rounded human beings with different levels of emotional maturity, but all willing to change and grow.

The writing is good, and I enjoyed getting to know each of the characters. Even the articles from various newspapers worked well, and I don’t usually like those. The author’s journalistic past, however, ensured that they were relevant and on point.

I loved this book! The characters, the plot, their interaction on the island.
The characters are relatable and I felt really identified with them, specially with how we all are judge from the outside by everyone. The story was funny and such good read!

****SPOILERS**** The premise of this book was so intriguing: four celebrities are supposed to go on a reality TV show (essentially, UK Survivor), but their helicopter crashes into a deserted island, where they must survive for months until their inevitable rescue. Post-rescue, the group is forced to readjust to life in the real world, with some shooting to A-list fame, while others are forced to deal with the unseemly revelations that came out during their absence. On paper, this sounded like an interesting concept, but, unfortunately, it didn't deliver. The pacing was all over the place, the dialogue felt stunted, and the character-building was both patchy and contradictory. It tried to do too many things in too short of a book, and I was left wanting more in some places and much, much less in others (unnecessary, random, out-of-place sex scene popping up 90% of the way in, I'm looking at you). The bones were there, and I really think this could have been something good, but I didn't love it. Maybe it's just not for me. On the bright side, it was a quick read.

An A list actress, middle age to presenter, disgraced author and mum influencer are travelling to an island via helicopter, ready for the start of ‘Star Survivor’. A show where they will look like they are surviving on a deserted island whilst secretly staying in hotel quality accommodation. Due to a freak storm they end up on the wrong island, one with no TV crew, lodgings or supplies. Now the four stars do have to learn how to survive, and quickly.

The first half of the book is about the helicopter trip to the island and subsequent survival. The next quarter is about the reaction once they are found with a six month time hop for the last quarter. I enjoyed the first part, as we got to know the characters and the island changed a couple of them for better. Once they are found it was disappointing how quickly the bond with one islander was ended. I kind of wasn’t sure where the tale was headed either almost half the book left, but it turned it to quite an interesting and unusual tale. Overall I liked it.

Four celebrities, who would otherwise never been seen together, are left to fend for themselves on a deserted island under the disguise of a reality TV show, Star Survivor. Promises of rest, relaxation, and pampering quickly dissolve as Toby, June, Zoe, and Emily soon realize they are in true isolation. Will these four unlikely friends band together to survive not only the elements, but one another? With their high profile status’ stripped, they must learn to work together while also overcoming their own struggles of self identity and worth.

Lisa Brace’s descriptive writing will draw you in from the start. It’s easy to fall in love with the deserted crew and root for their survival. Twists and turns along the way keep the pace of Star Survivor engaging; just when you think you know where the story line is headed, a new surprise pop up. Although fiction, Brace’s novel makes you question what you thought you knew of reality TV and gives a refreshing take on, “celebrities, they’re just like us”.