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Someday I want to live in a place where I never hear "You're Dusty's sister?" ever again.
Life is real enough for Dylan--especially as the ordinary younger sister of Dusty, former Miss Mississippi and the most perfect, popular girl in Tupelo. But when Dusty wins the hand of the handsome Scottish laird-to-be Ronan on the TRC television network's crown jewel, Prince in Disguise , Dylan has to face a different kind of reality: reality TV.
As the camera crew whisks them off to Scotland to film the lead-up to the wedding, camera-shy Dylan is front and center as Dusty's maid of honor. The producers are full of surprises--including old family secrets, long-lost relatives, and a hostile future mother-in-law who thinks Dusty and Dylan's family isn't good enough for her only son. At least there's Jamie, an adorably bookish groomsman who might just be the perfect antidote to all Dylan's stress . . . if she just can keep TRC from turning her into the next reality show sensation.
Author Notes
Stephanie Kate Strohm was born in New York and grew up on the Connecticut coast; her first novel was Pilgrims Don't Wear Pink.
(Bowker Author Biography)
Reviews (3)
Horn Book Review
Sixteen-year-old Dylan is spending Christmas in Scotland, where her older sister (former Miss Mississippi) is getting married to a lord on reality TV. Narrator Dylan's self-deprecating sense of humor and on-screen bumbles will endear her to readers, as will her chemistry and literary repartee with British groomsman Jamie, who's hiding a royally good secret of his own. An entertaining read perfect for Royal-family followers. (c) Copyright 2019. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Kirkus Review
A Mississippi teen finds herself in a Scottish manor for the holidays under unexpected circumstances.Dylan Leigh's sister, Dusty, found love as a contestant on the reality show Prince in Disguise, and now Dusty is going to marry the prince! Actually, Ronan is really only a lord, as Dylan reminds everyone, but no one seems to care. Now, Dylan, Dusty, and their motherall whiteare on their way from Tupelo, Mississippi, to Ronan's family home in the Scottish Highlands for the Christmas wedding TV special. Lucky for 16-year-old Dylan, who has spent months dodging the cameras (not so easy to do when you're 6 feet tall), she gets to be Pippa to Dusty's Kate, and all events leading up to the big event will be filmed for the pre-special special. Christmas vacation is ruineduntil Dylan meets white, blue-eyed Eton boy Jamie, one of the groomsmen. It's refreshing that they don't hate-like each other, but rather sparks fly from the start: lightly at first and subsequently heavier as the story unfolds. Then the thought occurs to Dylan: what if the show's producers are setting her up to be the star of a sequel? Dylan's best friend, Heaven, is black; the show's producers bring her over because everyone else is "too white," a ploy Heaven refers to with a great deal of sarcasm. A glittery, holiday-themed, girl-meets-boy-under-less-than-usual-circumstances romance. (Fiction. 12-16) Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
Booklist Review
Life in Tupelo, Mississippi, has not been easy for 16-year-old Dylan. It's far from ideal being the more average-looking younger sister to seemingly perfect, beautiful Dusty, a former Miss Mississippi now betrothed to a Scottish prince OK, lord and subject of the reality TV show Prince in Disguise. But when the pending nuptials bring her family to Scotland at Christmastime, Dylan falls hard for Jamie, one of the younger groomsmen. But dating under the microscope of reality TV just might be more than she bargained for, and that's before learning Jamie's spoiler alert a prince in disguise. After all, what's a wedding without the shocking return of a long-lost father, an unexpected bun in the oven, and other surprises? Strohm's latest is a pure rom-com delight think Bridget Jones meets The Bachelor. Plot twists, both strongly hinted at and more genuinely surprising, abound and add interest to the cozy story. Readers will swoon over Jamie's earnest and nerdy banter and cozy up to the deliciously detailed Scottish setting. Hand to teen fans of The Bachelor and British royalty gossip rags.--Barnes, Jennifer Copyright 2017 Booklist
