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Title: Pretty Little Mistakes: A Do-Over Novel
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| Pretty Little Mistakes: A Do-Over Novel by Harper Paperbacks Ugh |
I enjoy reading. To me, reading a good book is settling down in a comfortable position, opening the book and then immersing myself in someone else's story. I found the concept of this book intriguing. I loved the idea of several different stories coming out of the same book.
In reality, I found myself finishing a different story line every five minutes or so. And every single one of my choices ended with me dying. Each choice was maybe a page long, so there was no "settling" into a good story. I was constantly flipping pages and then starting over again and again and again.
I really wanted to like this book but after dying for the fifth time in 30 minutes, I put the book down and I've not touched it since then. This book needs longer chapters and more meaningful story lines. Not a few paragraphs with each story ending in death. |
| Pretty Little Mistakes: A Do-Over Novel by Harper Paperbacks Seriously one of my favorites!! |
| Ok, first the disclaimer. I hadn't even heard of this book or the writer before my mom practically forced me to borrow it. It sat on my coffee table collecting dust for about two months until, finally, I picked it up. I couldn't put it down!! I ended up reading about 10 different "lives" all the way through til about 2am that night! After that it was a constant companion at work, school, and at home for about a month. All of the young ladies at work can't wait to borrow it, but they're gonna have to wait. I'm still hooked and I can't stop til I finally die via "lava lamp"! I wonder what happens if.......(Oh yeah, and I'm totally chomping at the bit to read Heather's new book, "Million Little Mistakes"!! I can't wait!) |
| Pretty Little Mistakes: A Do-Over Novel by Harper Paperbacks Oh dear. Under the glitter, a void |
This novel is the book equivalent of a precocious and unbearably show-offy child who follows you around from room to room, tugging on your sleeve and saying "Lookit ME! Aren't I clever? Lookit ME!"
Ms Mcelhatton might try having an emotion and writing about it, rather than condescending to show us her marvelous form. And a marvelous form it is. It just doesn't have anything in the way of, say, content.
Don't bother. Go get yourself a welldone popup book, instead, and then read an actual novel. |
| Pretty Little Mistakes: A Do-Over Novel by Harper Paperbacks It was good in theory |
I used to like the Choose Your Own Adventure books and thought that Pretty Little Mistakes would be a fun, light-hearted read. It started off as such, but it became tedious pretty quickly.
I do give both Heather McElhatton and whomever was her editor credit for handling so many story lines in one novel. Keeping track of that alone had to be a monumental task.
Every page or two, the reader is asked to make a decision. It could be something like go to college or travel. Or have sex with a mechanic to pay for your car or not. Or manufacture methamphetamine or not. At first it's fun, but it gets old. Because of the constant decision-making, there's no real character development so you don't really give to shakes what happens.
Some of the scenarios are fairly salacious, but I felt like the author didn't quite have the chops to pull it off. Reading it all felt to me like she was saying "Lookee here, I can write about having anal sex with your cult leader." I have nothing against salaciousness, but it just felt gratuitous. After the monkey-rape scene, I had to just quit reading.
I've heard that the author is writing an even larger collection as a follow-up. I won't be reading it. |
| Pretty Little Mistakes: A Do-Over Novel by Harper Paperbacks a *bored* game |
| I read voraciously and this book is unequivocally the most boring book that I've read in the last 45 years. It reads like instructions to a board game. Interesting concept, poorly executed, very disappointing. |
| Pretty Little Mistakes: A Do-Over Novel by Harper Paperbacks Product Description |
There are hundreds of lives sown inside Pretty Little Mistakes, Heather McElhatton's singularly spectacular, breathtakingly unique novel that has more than 150 possible endings. You may end up in an opulent mansion or homeless down by the river; happily married with your own corporation or alone and pecked to death by ducks in London; a Zen master in Japan or morbidly obese in a trailer park. Is it destiny or decision that controls our fate? You can't change your past and start over from scratch in real life—but in Pretty Little Mistakes, you can! But be warned, choose wisely. |
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