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Does anyone else remember reading those "Choose Your Own Adventure" novels as a kid? I used to love flipping back and forth through all the stories, seeing what endings I'd find and then starting all over to get a different one. So of course when I saw this book on sale at the bookstore, I just had to pick it up!
"The romance novel that lets you pick your path, follow your heart, and find happily ever after.
You are the plucky but penniless heroine in the center of eighteenth-century society, courtship season has begun, and your future is at hand. Will you flip forward fetchingly to find love with the bantering baronet Sir Benedict Granville? Or turn the page to true love with the hardworking, horse-loving highlander Captain Angus McTaggart? Or perhaps race through the chapters chasing a good (and arousing) man gone mad, bad, and scandalous to know, Lord Garraway Craven? Or read on recklessly and take to the continent as the "traveling companion" of the spirited and adventuresome Lady Evangeline? Or yet some other intriguing fate?
Unexpected and multiple intertwining storylines make this novel a daring delight to read again and again, with beguiling illustrations bringing all the lust and love to life."
- from Storygraph
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Was the writing in this book actually any good? No. Did I have a great time reading it? Absolutely.
This book is a bit of a caricature of the classic regency romance novel, intentionally making fun of some of the various tropes you'd find - instant love, ridiculous names for body parts, a plucky young woman looking to rise above her station. The writing is honestly so bad that it ends up being good and funny and satirical. I read this book all afternoon, trying out at least 4 different storylines to meet all the characters and read through all the endings.
This book was fun, which I feel like sometimes that's all a book has to be. It was a fun and refreshing break from some of the more serious or intense books I read.
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Content Warnings: Sexual Content, Death, Violence
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