Name: My Lady's Choosing
ISBN: 9781683690146

Kitty Curran

Larissa Zageris

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.

An Interactive Romance Novel

My Lady's Choosing

Sonia Grgas

Courtney

This book was a lot fun and I enjoyed choosing my own story! I loved my happy ending! It was very “me!” I will definitely be picking this up again and again until I’ve read through all the stories! This is definitely worth checking out and I highly recommend it for romance readers!

I don't know if I can say I finished it because it's a 'choose your own adventure' kind of thing but I got one ending so I'll count it as so. And I loved that ending! (view spoiler)[ I ended up with Evangeline ugh I love her, it felt rushed but it was so happy that I liked it either ways for the story that led up to it.  (hide spoiler)]

Nicole Dykeman

This was just...incredibly entertaining. Truly a satirical masterpiece.

Missy Zuber 

Fun.
I didn't love it, but I didn't hate it.
 Reader's error- I keep ending up with only two of the men's stories. The third I keep missing due to my choices.

Morgan Powell

This was my first ever interactive novel, it was quite cute and a very fast read! Will definitely be rereading so I can read other parts of the story.

"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 yet some other intriguing fate? Make choices, turn pages, and discover all the daring delights of the multiple (and intertwining) storylines"--Amazon.com.

Sian Wadey

I always used to love the Goosebumps 'choose your fate' books so when this came along I had to have it. I love the quirky style of writing and the humour. My only disappointment is that it doesn't feel like a whole novel's worth of story. I expect I'll come back to it when I have forgotten where all the twists and turns lead.

Lauren Sullivan

I originally looked up this book because of the gorgeous cover, and when I found out that it was an adult choose-your-own-adventure, I thought I was going to break my mouse requesting it. I loved choose-your-own-adventure books as a kid, and would literally spend hours going through trying to make sure I got every single possible ending. While I know I didn’t actually accomplish that with this book, I spent several hilarity-filled hours cackling my way through different plot lines.

“You arrive at Seven Dials in London, near the notorious slums of St. Giles Rookery. All around you are thieves, murderers, murderous thieves, and at least eight different people exclaiming ‘Lawks!'”

If you’re not familiar with how CYOA books work, you’re presented with a dilemma and then given a few choices at the bottom of the page, including things like “If you are now fully involved with Mac and his drenched abs of intrigue – er, his orphans – and there is no way you are leaving them, turn to page 25.” While each read-through is relatively short, the fun from these books comes from the ability to start back at the beginning and experience a completely different story. Don’t feel like helping out with war orphans? OK, let’s go to Egypt! Feeling less like Outlander and more like a gothic romance? It’s got you covered!

“You reach for a finger sandwich from a tray the handsome manservant produced moments ago. You take a satisfying bite and relish the late-night pairing of watercress and intrigue.”

If you’re a fan of romance novels, especially regency romance, this is a ridiculously fun romp, with lots of tongue-in-cheek lampooning of common tropes. There’s all the familiar characters, including a Darcy-ish aristocrat, a cinnamon-roll Scottish war vet, a Byronesque madman, a spunky adventuress and a villain named Fabien de Mangepoussey. You navigate your character through various events including a ball, caber tossing, shower sex (don’t ask), birthing a foal, a house party in the country, unearthing an ancient Egyptian temple, and ever so much more. In various run throughs, I finished up the story as a English spy, the new proprietess of a classy male brothel, and the wife of an Egyptian museum curator (it was pointed out quite hilariously in this ending, that I became the friendly reoccurring side character in an series of adventure novels). For the most part, when given a choice, I went with the most ridiculous option every time (at one point, the authors called me a hussy!). Boink the dude kidnapping me as a distraction? Sure! Make love while covered in newborn horse goo? Let’s get it on!

“‘You are the charmer, and I am the snake,’ he says before filling your mouth with a kiss that makes you staring against your bindings for more. ‘But let this snake dance . . . for you.'”

I’d like to believe that the authors wrote most of this in an adult slumber party atmosphere fueled of lots of sugar and alcohol, because that’s the level of silliness you’re getting. Now, that’s not a bad thing, in my opinion – I laughed so hard I cried at various spots. The sex scenes are especially purple-prosey (“you play the most beautiful song on the bagpipes of your joined bodies”), and the dialog is witty, if flowery. And then, just when you think the puns can’t possibly get any worse, they do. Also, there’s illustrations to go along with certain pivotal scenes. While, unfortunately, the eARC I received didn’t contain all of them, the ones that were there matched the book’s tone well.



I don’t usually make recommendations as to what format you should read this book in, but at least for the eARC I read, navigating to the various choices was clunky, so I would highly recommend this as a paperback. While I think this could work very well as an ebook – I’m thinking specifically of linking each choice selection to a page, so you just have to click on it rather than laboriously finding the page, though maybe that’s just an iBooks feature and not available on other platforms – the ARC isn’t quite there, so I’d be interested in seeing how it’s handled in the final version.

“I am merely in this house of ill repute to confirm that your repute is the illest of them all!”

I was originally going to give this 4 stars, but while editing my review I went back and read another story line, and gosh, this is probably the most fun I’ve had while reading in a while. Maybe it’s just my childhood nostalgia for this type of book, or maybe it’s just that I really needed something light and hilarious at this particular point in time, but this concept is gold and I would happily read more of them. So, five stars. If you love regency romances, you’ll almost certainly enjoy this book!

I received this book for free from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.

Becky

This was so good! It was weird and wonderful and I am so happy I got to read. It was nothing like I expected but at the same time everything I wanted. It doesn't take itself too seriously, this isn't a serious romance. But it is as well and it's so much fun. You can tell the authors love romance as much as I do and that's why they've written this jokey book which demonstrates how brilliant romance is and still pokes fun at it. I recommend it if you want something a little different and a lot fun.

Alice

I do not know where to begin or what to say. Imma be brief, because goodness, I don't want to talk about me reading this book. If I had only gone on one adventure, I might have given it three stars and dismissed it as just ridiculous and maybe a little funny. But who gets a 350-pages book and only reads 15? 

FYI, I'm writing this review smiling-grimacing, because I can't believe I'm writing it in the first place.

I expected something sweet, some cool adventures to feel like a lady in one of my favorite historical periods. I wanted to smile at shy banter and fall in love with interesting, well-shaped (and not only physically) characters. I expected something kinda serious and sweet. Aye, big mistake.

It's a parody I really hope that's what the authors meant it to be that wants too badly to be funny. With dreadful and boring writing which, I hope too, is only sarcastically heavy and ridiculous. Oh gosh, some endings are terrible.

The rushed insta-love, the lack of chemistry with the love interests, the flatness of all characters, and the incredibly quick conclusion of the story-lines had me ??? I cringed at some stereotypes and didn't even finish all the storylines because I got so boredTM of the repetitive style of the 'romances'.

What to say about the unfounded and absolutely unappealing naughty scenes? I learned too many new weird ways to call men's genitals.

Alexis 

4/5 stars 

I adored this book. This is a fun choose your own adventure book, but with romance! it was fantastic! I loved this format and would honestly love to see more books like this in the future. I had so much fun flipping through and making my own story!

My Lady's Choosing An Interactive Romance Novel