Escape! by Stephen FishbachMy rating: 2 of 5 stars
Leave it to a former Survivor castaway to write a story that darkly parodies the long running reality series, while insisting that none of it is based on real events…and yet, it clearly plays to superfans with Easter eggs galore, characters very obviously inspired by other real-life castaways, lots of factoids being dropped about the show (because while the show focuses on the fictional Endure and Escape!, Survivor also still exists in this universe), and especially the perceptions of outsiders. The obvious typecasting, production rigging certain incidents, the showrunner being desperate for reinvention of the game…if only Kent, the seasoned vet, could’ve gotten that first person POV instead of Beck, the producer. Fishbach gives it the old college try, but if I’m to read another book of his, I hope he tries something completely different.
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