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I quit watching Reality TV completely a bit ago. It was slow weaning . First, went the talk shows I loved to watch when I came home from high school. Next, the Court Shows followed by the design shows and makeover shows.. Before I had a house, I loved all the Home and Garden Shows, before I had a child I loved all the baby shows. (I also loved the Sims before I had either of these things.)
I was in the early days of Survivor and The Real World and dipped in again from time to time but Flavor of Love might have been the straw. I held on to competitions and talent shows for much longer but now even my beloved Top Chef and So, You Think You Can Dance. I would still watch SYTYCD but with the cable cut, tv reception awash, and Hulu and Netflix not indulging me, it doesn't happen.
Despite my fatigue, anxiety (My husband pointed out the frenzy making of some cooking shows), and frank repulsion around much of Reality TV, I can see why the setting might prove catnip for the romance writer.
There are so many of them!
Here is a list of Romance Novels set on Dating Reality TV
1. My Shifter Showmance by R. G. Alexander
Thomas Lyons is your average cat shifter. Cool, seductive...and bored out of his mind. With the new popularity of all things paranormal, he doesn't see why he should hide anymore. When his half-demon technophile roommate hooks him up with a computer, Thomas starts a blog announcing to the world who and what he is. Oddly enough, the more he shares, the less he's believed. In fact, people begin thinking it's a new online series with fantastic effects.
Margo Sheffield doesn't dance on tables anymore, not since her reckless naïveté cost her so much. These days, her only guilty pleasures are dark chocolate, shoes--and a certain website with a man whose purring voice sends shivers down her spine. When the show, Shifting Reality, offers a week in a haunted Scottish castle with the stars, it seems a far-off dream. But when that dream becomes reality, her boss's insistence that she mix business with pleasure--or else--is more like a nightmare.
Thomas's focus on the show is blown by the luscious, camera-shy handful. And Margo can barely think about contracts when she's surrounded by newlywed ghost hunters, a matchmaking demon and a man whose addictive touch makes her head spin.
A showmance is the last thing she needs, but with a sexy cat like Thomas on the prowl...she just can't resist.
2. Seven Exes Are Eight Too Many by Heather Wardell
The fiercely private Madeleine-Cora Spencer is the last person who should be on a reality TV show, but when she's shunned by a friend's new wife because "you can't trust desperate single women" her pain and humiliation drive her straight to the "Find Your Prince" dating show's web site.
Armed with date-appropriate clothes and a detailed game plan she arrives to meet her potential loves, only to be dumped... on a remote island with seven ex-boyfriends.
Seven exes! Could this be any worse?
3. Planning for Love by Christi Barth
Hopeless romantic Ivy Rhodes and anti-Cupid Bennett Westcott request the pleasure of your company for their disaster of a courtship
Wedding planner Ivy Rhodes is the best in the business, and she's not about to let a personal problem stop her from getting ahead. So when she's asked to star in the reality TV show Planning for Love, it doesn't matter that the show's videographer happens to be a recent—and heartbreaking—one-night stand.
Bennett Westcott admits he didn't handle his encounter with Ivy very well. But looking at her beautiful smile—and great body—through a camera lens every day? He can't be faulted for suggesting they have some no-strings fun.
The more time they spend together, the more Ben realizes Ivy isn't the wedding-crazed bridezilla he'd imagined. But if he doesn't trust himself to make a relationship last, how can he convince Ivy to give him another chance?
4. Only Mine by Susan Mallery
Finn Anderssen will do anything to keep his twin brothers--the perfect contestants--off the show. Despite Dakota's better judgment, she finds herself drawn to the mysterious outsider. Like her, Finn knows about heartbreak and how a family can fall apart, so she doesn't dare to hope for anything more than a fling. After all, even in the Land of Happy Endings, finding true love is never as easy as it looks on TV.
But then my friend, Sarah arranges a blind date. Imagine my shock when I discover that it is a documentary akin to The Bachelor. I was determined to sign out, quit.
And then I discover the bachelor isn’t too keen on being the bachelor either. He needs an insider on the show, an advisor on the right woman for him. And I need a free trip to France. This was supposed to be a win-win situation. After all, I had laid down my rules. There was never going to be romance involved. And we were only ever going to be friends.
I mean, I didn't want love complicating our relationship. I needed to be real. He was rich and I was... well, not. When did fairy tales like that come true?
But now, I’m wondering- had I laid my rules down too fast? Why did it hurt that I was no longer in the running to be the right woman for Dante Dimitriou?
What's Alexa supposed to do when instead of digging up dirt for her cover story, she finds herself falling way too fast for the guy she’s supposed to tear apart in her first big feature story?
Colt had never forgotten the hot, sensual night he’d shared with Valentina, or how she’d left him without so much as a note or her contact information. He’d spent months searching for the woman who’d given him a night he couldn’t forget and thought he’d never see again. Now that she’s in Dallas, he’s determined to make her his…
8. Rock Bottom by Cate Masters
For rocker Jet Trently, success means playing the same platinum-selling hits ad nauseum. Philly rock journalist Billie Prescott thrives on covering the latest music releases. When her editor sends her to Malibu to cover Jet’s reality dating show, Rock Bottom, her blog’s success keeps her trapped there. Her life’s at Rock Bottom too, until she hears Jet’s new songs. They touch her heart as his music did when she was fifteen. When Jet touches her heart as well, will the reality show ruin the real thing?
9. Love Simplified by Terri J. Haynes
Tempest Day is an expert on helping others find love through her Connection Parties matchmaking service and the methods outlined in her bestselling book, Love Simplified. She’s one step away from becoming a celebrity matchmaker, the pinnacle of her career dreams.
But when a seemingly simple interview on the nation’s most popular daytime television show takes an ugly turn, Tempest is forced to admit a secret she’s carried for years: She’s never been in love. The fallout is immediate and severe. So severe that the only way to fix the damage is to use her own methods on a reality TV show.
Tempest soon discovers that love is anything but simple. The show and its cranky but handsome associate producer, Lance Moretti, challenges all that Tempest thought she knew about relationships, even her relationship with God. What starts as a desperate attempt to repair her reputation turns into Tempest’s biggest love connection ever.
10. Slapshot of Love by Gary Pearson
Sapshot of Love by Gary Pearson is a satirical romantic comedy in the tradition of Nick Hornby’s High Fidelity and Helen Fielding’s Bridget Jones’s Diary. Geri Halton is a young woman with an all too real life, working in an seniors’ residence in an industrial town, who finds herself thrown into the glamorous, but artificial world of a reality TV dating show called Slapshot of Love. Smart, funny, attractive, but not ‘model pretty’ or remotely glam, Geri must navigate the phony world of television and determine if her relationship with Ryan, the handsome hockey playing star of the show, is real, or contrived for the TV audience. The hilarious circumstances at both a seniors’ residence and the set of a reality TV show propel the characters through a comic story that also has a lot of heart.
Don't worry! There is more Reality TV Lists to come!
Vote for the best of the best, visit the Goodreads list: Real Love: Reality TV Romance.
