Tune in Tomorrow by Randee Dawn

Starr Weatherby is looking for her big break in NYC and when a group of oddly dressed people come into her diner she is one hundred percent certain that if she can just get their attention they'd hire her for whatever show it is they were discussing. She saunters and gives the best performance a waitress has ever given and then promptly spills coffee all over her one shot. Surprisingly enough one of the men, one that appears to have horns gives her a card and tells her to be at a certain place at exactly 5:03 am and to look for a gate. With nothing to lose Starr heads for this mysterious gate and finds herself literally airlifted to a TV set like none she has ever seen. For starters, the security guard is a dragon, and Jason, the "man" who gave her the business card is a Faun who is the producer of Tune in Tomorrow, the longest-running reality show in the Fae World, and he's got an offer for Starr that she can't refuse. Become the newest addition to the show and live out her dreams on a TV show that she can never tell anyone about in a world she didn't even know existed. The offer is far too good to be true and she knows there's a hitch and her name is Fiona and she will stop at nothing to ensure no one takes the spotlight from her.

Tune in Tomorrow is one of the most imaginative, unique, and hilarious books I have ever read. Honestly, I can't even imagine how Dawn even came up with this idea but I am eternally grateful they did! Tune in Tomorrow is a soap opera marketed as a reality show to mythical creatures, I mean c'mon show me a more off-the-wall concept. 

Characters, but especially Starr and Fiona were amazing. Starr just screams Main Character Energy from the first page. Her mantra throughout the book is "Go Big or Go Home" and I think that describes her personality well. She comes across as this extremely confident individual, and she is, but it's confidence that comes from knowing that you'll get absolutely nowhere if you don't try and you don't put in 100% effort. She's also just one of those incredibly clever characters, her mind works a million miles a minute and while she may not stay a step ahead of Fiona that's simply because Fiona's cheating. 

Fiona on the other hand is a perfect rival for Starr to face off with. She is just as quick-witted as Starr but she has almost a century of experience and as they say with age comes wisdom. Or in Fiona's case a virtual army of spies and a bunch of sycophants. And I'm just going to mention this because I am sure someone is going to gripe about it: I do not know many women who have *not* worked with an older woman who is just as bad as Fiona is, the only reason I don't say or worse than Fiona is because Fiona's kinda lost her mind by the time Starr meets her. 

The world-building was pretty excellent as well. The whole book takes place in basically one very enclosed set and even as the reader it began to feel a bit claustrophobic. There's one scene in particular where Starr leaves the set to head to some other region of the Fae World and it was even a relief for me to get off that set, pretty much once Starr takes the job we *never* leave. This helps firmly establish that all of these mortals who had been working on this show for decades probably won't playing with a full deck and had not been for a while. The whole thing very much reminded me of The Real World, which for those of you don't know what that was, it was one of the first (if not the first) reality shows, that placed a bunch of strangers in an apartment (I think an RV even) where throughout the show they devolved into the worst possible versions of themselves. 

I do have one complaint here though, the biggest is that literally *no one* gets in actual trouble for anything they did and some of it is pretty awful. Fiona, especially, should have been locked up I don't care if Unseelie/Seelie courts have different ways of dealing with things. She basically enslaves an entire race, she believes she *murdered* someone, she attempts to kill someone else multiple times, she blackmails pretty much everyone, she has the equivalent of recording devices positioned pretty much everywhere on set including in the bathrooms, I could probably go on I don't think I covered everything. Like its actually really weird that it ended the way that it did and all of the characters are totally okay with it. Living a miserable existence after multiple attempted murders is not a satisfactory punishment and that's how this is written. Fiona lost all of her fame and fortune that'll teach her! 

In the end, though just how much fun this was overrode even that complaint and it is a pretty large one, it's the only thing keeping it from five stars, but up until the end and even after we discover that Fiona will not be punished for crimes other than some sort of shaming exercise, it was definitely worth the read. It was a wild ride from beginning to end and I highly recommend!

As always thanks to NetGalley and Rebellion for the eArc!