Remember those way-cool Choose Your Own Adventure books that were so much fun when we were kids? (Scholastic is still publishing them.) They were the original text adventure videogames, weren’t they? Well, someone has combined CYOA with chick lit to come up with the first CYOA book for grownups... or at least for women who think Bridget Jones is a grownup.
Pretty Little Mistakes is called “A Do-Over Novel,” and it was already in its seventh printing six weeks ago, after being published in May. From the review in Publishers Weekly (found on the book’s Amazon page):
The book opens with a female second person’s high school graduation, which leads “you” to two possible choices: travel or college. Each succeeding section (mostly between one and four pages) similarly offers two options for proceeding, leading to an impressive array of possible developments, from a trip to Rome that can result in a live-in Italian artist boyfriend, to a dead-end job as a phone sex operator with the moniker of Stormy Sioux.
Author Heather McElhatton is, at 37, an Xer, and clearly a geek. She describes the experience of writing the book thusly: it was “like Alien coming out of my chest, and I just had to get it down.”
Wish I’d thought of this first...
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