This was a great book for fans of survivor/the bachelorette. As a lover of reality tv, this was the perfect read for me! I thought it was witty, engaging, and laugh out loud funny. Add this one to your beach bag. You won’t regret it!

2.5 stars

Sigh....... I wanted to like this way more than I did. Being a Survivor-esque, reality tv, romance I thought I would love it. However there are just too many pop culture references and most of them were over explained and exaggerated that just made you want to roll your eyes. I'm glad I read this in one shot because I'm not sure I would have picked it up continuously if I had set it down. Let's not get started on the names of most of these characters, to each their own. I did kind of enjoy the ending which was a saving grace.

Thank you to St. Martin's Press, Wednesday Books and Netgalley for providing me with an e-arc in exchange for an honest review.

I LOVED attached at the hip way more than I was expecting.
From the premise I was sold, I’m a fan of not only survivor but also all kinds of trash dating reality shows so this should be my jam. Initially Orie as the and the lay out of the show threw me off a but in the beginning. Orie is unfortunately the type of survivor player that would have me screaming at the scream in real life (affectionately) But I took a brake and came back ready for her game.
Christine Riccio does a fabulous job of capturing the show. Especially the paranoia playing and not knowing of who’s lying to you and who is a real connection.
I also had a great time picking apart the game as it was being played. I’m a fan of survivor for how the game of survivor has evolved over the years and I loved seeing ( and judging🩷) this new form of the game.
I was SUCKED in by the end. I had a fabulous time reading it and anyone else who loves these types of reality shows (especially survivor) will love it too.

⭐️⭐️⭐️

𝙎𝙪𝙧𝙫𝙞𝙫𝙤𝙧 𝙢𝙚𝙚𝙩𝙨 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝘽𝙖𝙘𝙝𝙚𝙡𝙤𝙧 𝙞𝙣 𝙖𝙣 𝙞𝙧𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙗𝙡𝙚, 𝙧𝙤𝙢𝙖𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙘 𝙖𝙙𝙫𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙚.

📍 Read if you like:
• Friends To Lovers
• Forced Proximity
• Dating Shows
• Reality TV

I really wanted to love this book, it sounded so interesting and right up my alley with the reality TV aspect. Unfortunately, I had such a difficult time with this story.

While the reality TV aspect had me so intrigued, the romance itself in this book didn’t sit well with me. I just didn’t care for it or for the characters. It dragged and I began to lose interest in the story, it was quirky in its own way.

I’m honestly still not sure if this book was YA or NA - maybe half young adult and half new adult?! I don’t honestly know, but I’m confused.

Overall, this book had its fun moments here and there. I just went into it expecting something completely different, the reality TV was fun - while the romance wasn’t. Such mixed feelings about this book!

Thank you so much NetGalley and Wednesday Books for the review copy in exchange for my honest review!

This book was really cute. I loved it. I like that the main character came into her own throughout the story. And reading about the different challenges they had to do was entertaining. I would recommend this book to anyone who loves reading fluffy romance book and if you like having reality tv shows in your books.

I love reading about reality TV scenarios in my books, so I knew I was going to enjoy my time with this book. At first, the book read more YA than I was expecting. A lot of the earlier dialogue felt forced and cringey. However, about midway through the book I felt like the writing really started to improve, felt less cringey, and I became more invested in the plot. I ended up really enjoying the direction the book went in, I was not expecting it all. I also thought there was some great nuanced conversations about relationships within the book. Finally, any book that mentions One Direction gets major points in my book.

Attached at the Hip was such a fun and original romance book! I loved the premise. Orie and Remy are a cute couple with such a fun background. The friends to lovers aspect was well done and it's a super cute novel!

This was OK; a bit one dimensional characters but I liked the island/speed dating aspect of the reality survival show.

I received an advanced copy. All thoughts are my own.

Absolutely love everything Christine Riccio has written and this was a no brainer! This book was so clever and if you are a fan of Survivor I 100% recommend. It's so well thought out and fun. I loved it so much!

I rated Attached at the Hip by Christine Riccio a 3.5 star. This is a great read for fans of reality shows! I was highly entertained by the thought of a reality dating show in a Survivor environment, and the characters did not disappoint.

I enjoyed this reality TV star mix more than I thought I would. Loved the audiobook, and enjoyed the narrator. I was cracking up constantly.

A great read for fans of reality shows! My emotions are all over the place with this book. It took me several chapters to like the FMC cuz she's so indecisive and can't do anything on her own, but I get that's what makes the storyline so vital. I was highly entertained by the thought of a reality dating show in a Survivor environment, and the characters did not disappoint.

The only part I really struggled with was not knowing which character I could trust (as I already have huge trust issues, lol), but it ended up keeping me on my toes and really paying attention to every little detail given. I definitely couldn't survive if Attached At The Hip was a real show, but I'd certainly enjoy watching it unfold.

I'm so obsessed with this book!! I loved every second of it, I feel like this is definitely my favorite of Christine's thus far. I am not a Survivor fan but I am a fan of the Bachelor, I've read a lot of books over the past year that revolve around some sort of reality TV show so I wasn't ecstatic about diving into this one because of that reason but this book really surprised me in a number of ways. The Survivor aspects definitely gave it a new twist that separated it from a regular old reality dating show. I have no interest in watching Survivor but if Attached at the Hip was an actual show I would 100% watch it. I thought it was so interesting how Remy was built up at the beginning of the book as the love interest and then slowly stripped down by the end. His character shift happened in such a subtle way that I thought it worked really well. My one critique is that I don't know that I was 100% sold on Osprey by the end. I definitely loved him as a character I just don't know if his shift INTO the love interest worked as seamlessly since Orie wasn't completely sold on him throughout most of the book either. I feel like I could've used like one more scene to warm up to him before they left the show. Overall, I really liked everything about this book, it was laugh out loud funny at times and I loved seeing aspects of Christine in all of the characters. It was so silly reading about Orie and Osprey discussing their favorite books since all the books they mentioned were books that I learned about from watching Christine for years. This was such a fun reading experience, I wish I could do it all over again.

I want to open this review by saying that I was sincerely excited to read Christine’s third novel, and I was intrigued by the concept. I am a sucker for a trope-filled book based on reality television. I always find these books have a spark to them and provide extra tension or conflict in their plots. However, this book struggled a bit when it came to the execution of that concept. And I do believe its marketing is suffering from the story’s lack of genre identity.
There were a few places where I found the story really stood on solid ground. Those places being: Chapter One, and the chapters falling between the 70-85% mark. Those chapters absolutely had me hooked, had the adrenaline pumping, and I found it difficult to tear myself away from the screen. It was probably Christine’s most compelling writing to date.

I couldn’t get into the story just as I thought. Not disappointed but need more depth, I think. I can't remember when was the last time when I read a book in which the whole plot was 100% equal to what was written in the blurb and nothing more. There was no surprise there, no resolution to any of the plot threads and the whole story was blatantly predictable and painfully dull.

This was my first book by Christine Riccio and now I want to read everything that she has ever written and everything that she writes in the future.

First of all, this didn’t feel like a YA book - I would call it a new adult (because of the age group) but I loved the idea of Orie going on a survivor/bachelor reality show as a way of finding her independence. I loved the relationships that she formed (except for Remy, I didn’t like him from the beginning).

I really appreciated the growth and development that we saw with Orie and I loved Osprey from the very first meet up and kept swooning every time he was in the scene.

Overall, super cute book - it was fun to see the “show” play out in my head. But I did completely skip past one scene that gave me the creepies.

Thank you to Wednesday Books and NetGalley for the ARC in exchange for my honest review!

I thought this was such a cute read! The concept for the show was so fun with the Bachelor meets Survivor concept! I thought it was fun that all of the characters were so quirky too!

𝐒𝐨 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭’𝐬 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐟𝐚𝐯𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐫?”
“𝐌𝐚𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐢,” 𝐑𝐞𝐦𝐲 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐬. “𝐖𝐡𝐲?”

…um???? pardon? did I.. hear that right?!!?

“𝐈𝐭’𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐢𝐱𝐭𝐲-𝐟𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐛𝐨𝐱 𝐨𝐟 𝐂𝐫𝐚𝐲𝐨𝐥𝐚 𝐜𝐫𝐚𝐲𝐨𝐧𝐬. 𝐈𝐭’𝐬 𝐚 𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐫. ”

Thank you to St Martin's Wednesday books for my #gifted copy . I also listened in audio, Brittany Pressley did an excellent job narrating, She made the book come alive in the most SNL way. Her narration was campy and fun just what this satire like book needed.
This is a book for all of the lovers of Love is Blind/ meets The Circle / meets Survivor. All the elements of elimination reality tv was present in this book and Orie. well she could be played by Kristin Wigg ; she screeches, and is quirky in the most socially awkward way but so funny at the same time. Orie went on this show to prove to her sister that she could do something on her own, she could be her own person.
Remi had all the red flags of a liar from the beginning for me., so the ending was no shock. I love the dedication Orie had to do a documentary to air on the final episode how Remi had lied about his whole persona to get on the show.
Orie learned a lot about herself in this experience. Her heart to heart about her sexuality with Kennedi and the possibility she was asexual or Aromantic explained a lot about her feelings with Wes , the boyfriend she broke up with when she left for the show, how she only felt " fireworks" with Osprey . Did she make any final conclusions about herself from this talk? No , because there was so much going on with the Survivor show., maybe if there is a second book or we see her character in a future book , she may have had time to talk about herself with Osprey . She may be on the spectrum , she might not and that is ok. I like the fact that an underrepresented sexual spectrum was represented. Her character is still figuring herself out , and maybe that is the greatest point this author was trying to make in a campy round about way; growing as an adult we don't have to have everything figured out. Life is learning , growing and evolving with change. Who we were at 13 isn't who we will be at 25 . We are told to be successful we need to go to college, we need to find a career to support ourselves and forget about the things we loved as kids because it isn't practical. These were thoughts that Orie held on to as most college graduates, but if you have the chance to do something you are passionate about , take that chance and run with it. Don't let go of those things that make you happy or the people that bring you joy.
This book could have had 4 or five chapters cut and still been perfectly fine, I think Orie could have said what was needed at the afterparty to Osprey , or had him a part of the conversation with the internship offers. Her declaration could have been made there, it would have been perfect if we could have had more of what Ospery was thinking at that time, because Orie needed to hear how he felt . like any girl falling for a boy.

I am so pleasantly surprised by “Attached at the Hip,” and couldn’t be more excited with the growth of Christine Riccio’s writing.

I have followed Christine’s BookTube channel for years and have read both of her books prior to this one, which is by far my favorite. Christine’s debut, “Again, But Better” was exciting because it was her debut so I gave it a lot of leniency. Her second novel, “Better Together” really fell flat for me and in general wasn’t my cup of tea. So I was very hesitant to go into “Attached at the Hip,” but since I really do love Christine, I wanted to give it a fair chance. And since I received an ARC, I didn’t have much skin in the game. I am so happy to say I was fully in with this book.

The characters were so well written, the dialogue and banter was fun, the stakes were there, the chemistry was phenomenal, and I happily had to keep reading to figure out where the hell the story was going.

I was super impressed with the way the chemistry between Orie and her love interest(s) was built so fast and felt believable (for the most part?). It’s difficult to discuss that chemistry and the way it was used and laid out without spoiling things. Just know, there was a brief moment where I had no clue where things would go prior to it being clearly laid out. I also can’t really talk about much of the “cast” without spoiling things, sooo… Just know, the endgame is my favorite of all time. Heart eyes for sure.

Something that just warmed my damn heart throughout this book was the references we get to YA literature and pop culture that was quintessential to my own teen years. “Divergent” is a pretty big one, we also got mentions of Cassandra Clare, “Legend” by Marie Lu, and Hannah Montana, just to name a few. I also was so pleasantly surprised by a little “Again, But Better” cameo.

Speaking of pop culture, the entire premise of this book revolves around “Survivor” with a “The Bachelor” twist. As a Christine Riccio fan, I know “Survivor” is her bread and butter. She knows a lot about the show, and it really shines through here and makes the reality TV aspect of it very believable. I also so appreciated her tackling of the hygiene aspect of a survival reality show–it’s something I’m always wondering about!

I really enjoyed “Attached at the Hip.” The wrap up and reunion of the show was very satisfying, and I loved the overall ending of the book.

I keep reading this author's books hoping they get better. But they still seem the same. Change the setting and the names. I can't help but wonder if it's only because the author was a youtuber is the reason that they keep getting published.

A Dating in the Wild meets the Hunger Games in this survivor story filled with secrets, deception, and a whole lot of video cameras.

If you can handle the world uncovering everything about your life, learning to trust strangers, and trying to find love this might be a story for you.