I've loved Parvati since I was a kid watching Survivor for the first time, and I love her even more now after rewatching her seasons and seeing her in the All-Winners season. Going into this, I knew nothing about her background. I was shocked by her story growing up in a cult and later devastated by the overdose and death of her brother. This book is about resilience and strength but also vulnerability and processing past traumas. This is quick but impactful and is great, whether you're a Survivor/Traitors fan or not.

I've never met a reality tv star's memoir that I am not interested in, and I was really impressed with Parvati Shallow's memoir. Her life has been complicated and often hard, and her resilience and the way she's handled her trauma and made an interesting career for herself is fascinating to read about. This isn't a gossipy tell-all but instead a solid story of survival and Survivor, reality tv and making a real life.

I've been a long time fan of Parvati's tv work and read many of her shorter form posts, and it was refreshing to really immerse more in her narrative style and voice. I enjoyed her writing very much! I hope many of her fans read through this and understand the dynamic voice behind the edited for network television work - the depth is obvious and inspiring.

As an avid reality tv fan (and someone who has a podcast all about it), I am of course very familiar with who Parvati Shallow is. She's a Survivor legend, and the Fans vs Favorites season was the first one I really got into, which means I got to watch her and her Black Widow Brigade work their magic. I was also happy to see her have a comeback during her stint on The Traitors, which is one of my favorite shows on tv right now. Even though I know her as an iconic tv personality, I didn't know very much about her personal history, so this book was highly informative. I imagine it took so much vulnerability to recount her childhood growing up in a commune with her parents, and explaining how she definitely has trauma but doesn't necessarily remember all of it. Between that kind of upbringing and the tragedy she experienced with the unexpected loss of her brother, it's clear that Parvati has had to go through a lot of healing work, and she is absolutely a survivor (pun intended) for going through everything she has gone through. It was nice to get a better sense of who she is in her own words, and I have a greater appreciation for her.