The boom had potential but the choices turned out to be very similar. It was just ->career->boyfriend->marriage->children->death in every path. No matter what choice I made it ended up being almost identical to the last 'ending'.
I relate to this review. ( )

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I remember those choose you own adventure books from the 70s. This one is fun for the first few read throughs. I should have left it at that instead of leaving it on the back of the commode and methodically checking out all the story lines. One section left me baffled (109) and there were quite a few repetitions. Some endings were cute and sweet, but some were gratingly flippant and bitter. It is a fun gimmick, but it needed more quality control. ( )

This is not some deep and meaningful great work. But it is indeed a hilarious, and sometimes hilariously sad, adult choose your own adventure book. Remember those terrible little books from childhood? I feel like they were often horror/creepy stories, but I know there had to have been other options. They were hardly ever written well or with much depth but they were still a blast to read again and again to find out how all your different choices led you to different endings. A sneak peak into all the possible futures the author supplied.

Well, you can experience that same fun again, albeit a much more adult version/18 , with much better writing. It is full of absolutely absurd blips into the life you choose, many tragic endings and a few real gems hidden in there. I'm sure I didn't make it down every single path possible in this book quite yet, but I made it through at least 90% of it. Can we make adult choose-your-own books the new in 'thing?' I want more!

This is absolutely a book you can pick up if you only have a quick 15 minutes to read, or one you can sit and puzzle through for a few hours. Very fun, definitely getting the second book and I'm eagerly gathering any other choose your own books I can find. ( )

Some seriously disturbing assumptions are made in this book and I didn't like a lot of the so-called "choices". This book should have been called 45 ways to be sexually assaulted because it seems like no matter what you chose to do that's what happened to your character. ( )