“The End” is Only the Beginning.
Elle Masters is over dating. It used to be fun: the drama, the angst, the exhilarating beginnings, the bittersweet middles, the blowout endings. Then the tears, hangovers, rebounds, and another addition to the shoebox of memories in her closet. Now Elle can’t remember the last time a guy made his way into her box.
When her friends Rachel and Valerie insist she snap out of her post-breakup funk with a girls’ night out/rebound hunt at a San Francisco bar, Elle isn’t expecting tall, dark, and hummuna-hummuna, Nick Wright. This is no rebound guy. He’s definitely, maybe, The One.
In Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda, the interactive romantic comedy where you direct the plot, you play Elle as she and her pals put the “antics” in “romantics.” Get ready to question everything you thought you knew about love, over-analyzing and second-guessing your way through hundreds of modern dating dilemmas and passionate predicaments. Will you accept a last minute date? Freak out if Nick wants space? Be the first to use the ‘L’ word? Live in sin? Or hold out for a ring? Wait, do you even want a ring?
With 60 good, bad and inexplicable endings, you’ll always have another second chance at love with Mr. Wright.
Elle Masters is over dating. It used to be fun: the drama, the angst, the exhilarating beginnings, the bittersweet middles, the blowout endings. Then the tears, hangovers, rebounds, and another addition to the shoebox of memories in her closet. Now Elle can’t remember the last time a guy made his way into her box.
When her friends Rachel and Valerie insist she snap out of her post-breakup funk with a girls’ night out/rebound hunt at a San Francisco bar, Elle isn’t expecting tall, dark, and hummuna-hummuna, Nick Wright. This is no rebound guy. He’s definitely, maybe, The One.
In Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda, the interactive romantic comedy where you direct the plot, you play Elle as she and her pals put the “antics” in “romantics.” Get ready to question everything you thought you knew about love, over-analyzing and second-guessing your way through hundreds of modern dating dilemmas and passionate predicaments. Will you accept a last minute date? Freak out if Nick wants space? Be the first to use the ‘L’ word? Live in sin? Or hold out for a ring? Wait, do you even want a ring?
With 60 good, bad and inexplicable endings, you’ll always have another second chance at love with Mr. Wright.
Excerpt:
From section 64
No matter how many times you remind Nick that you both hate That Pizza Place and love It’s Been a Pie, he never gets it right. Except that one time you showed up after an office gathering and immediately passed out drunk fell asleep on his couch in your suit, laptop bag gripped in your hand. The next morning you woke up to an empty pizza box, propped open, with a note written on a napkin inside: You snooze, you lose.
Tonight is no exception - the pizza tastes like dirty gym socks smell. Too hungry to do anything about it, you alternate between taking large bites, chewing quickly, and washing it down with soda. Your bouche is far from amused, but you’re still delighted because Nick is sharing gossip with you.
A milestone!
Sure, guys put on a good show of pretending they don’t talk about (or listen to talk about) others, but that’s why they always have the best information. They’re flies on walls. And when a guy dishes more than small talk about his friends and/or their lives, he’s into you.
Nick’s best friend, Russ, has been with his girlfriend, Sally for around six weeks. You like this for many reasons, but mainly because a) you love the name Sally, and b) it’s roughly the length of time you’ve been dating Nick, so it’s probably better for you if his buddy’s all-a-glow over a gal rather than the alternative. Girls can sour their friends on the opposite sex, true, but a man can do it in half the time and with less effort. It’s probably connected to men’s rooms never having line ups.
According to Nick, Russ feels pressured because Sally gets irritated when they’re not in daily contact the way, she says, “normal” couples are. He really likes Sally but doesn’t want to feel like he must check in with her.
Nick shakes his head. “Big red flag that says: Red Flag. In capital letters.”
You’ve only gotten one out of four sides to this story (Nick’s, Russ’, Sally’s, and the truth) but, in general, you don’t think it’s unreasonable for a girl to hope herboyfriend would want some daily contact with her. Even if it’s just a quick text to say, “Hey. Had a great beagle today.” Followed by, “Fucking autocorrect. Had a great BAGEL today.”
To rally around Russ, turn to section 116.
To side with Sally, turn to section 133.
My Review:
~~I received this in exchange for an honest review~~
This has to be the strangest book that I have ever read. I have heard of the choose your own adventure books when I was little, but I was never a fan of them, I was frustrated easily. It was the same with this book. It has a great premise, but, no matter where I would go, two "choose your way's" later, I was back near the beginning. I should have just read it straight through (author has a note at the beginning on how to read the book)
I gave the book 4 stars because there is a good story line in there. I was just unable to follow it. I got frustrated with always going back to the beginning.
This has to be the strangest book that I have ever read. I have heard of the choose your own adventure books when I was little, but I was never a fan of them, I was frustrated easily. It was the same with this book. It has a great premise, but, no matter where I would go, two "choose your way's" later, I was back near the beginning. I should have just read it straight through (author has a note at the beginning on how to read the book)
I gave the book 4 stars because there is a good story line in there. I was just unable to follow it. I got frustrated with always going back to the beginning.
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Author Bio:
Tara Lee Reed is the accidental writer from Toronto, Canada, not that chick from Sharknado. When her career in public relations was forced into hiatus by a jerky plot twist, she wrote the first in a series of interactive novels. When she received offers of single and multi-book deals from top houses, she turned them down to publish independently. Because she’s crazy.
She was voted Most Sarcastic Female at her high school prom, which she went to alone. (Not that she thinks about it.) She can fit her whole fist in her mouth (which makes the prom thing surprising), and she can sing with her mouth closed, but she can’t do both at the same time.
Her tweets on The Bachelor have been aired in a live broadcast and picked up by national media. She once appeared on the cover of a romance novel with her longtime partner, who has done 79 more – with other women. She thinks that’s qualification enough to write this book.
Connect with Tara!
Tara Lee Reed is the accidental writer from Toronto, Canada, not that chick from Sharknado. When her career in public relations was forced into hiatus by a jerky plot twist, she wrote the first in a series of interactive novels. When she received offers of single and multi-book deals from top houses, she turned them down to publish independently. Because she’s crazy.
She was voted Most Sarcastic Female at her high school prom, which she went to alone. (Not that she thinks about it.) She can fit her whole fist in her mouth (which makes the prom thing surprising), and she can sing with her mouth closed, but she can’t do both at the same time.
Her tweets on The Bachelor have been aired in a live broadcast and picked up by national media. She once appeared on the cover of a romance novel with her longtime partner, who has done 79 more – with other women. She thinks that’s qualification enough to write this book.
Connect with Tara!
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