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A review by happiestwhenreading
All This and More by Peng Shepherd
3.5
Who could resist a dip back into nostalgia with a choose-your-own-adventure story? I couldn't!
Marsh (short for Marshmallow) is chosen as the season 3 contestent on a reality show that allows her to go back to critical moments of her life to fix, or choose, a different path. Would she still chose to divorce her husband? Would she prioritize her career more the second time around? Would she move abroad to explore different career options? Marsh visits all of these choice - and more! - during her second chance at life.
I LOVE the concept of this book and headed in with the full intention of making the choices I liked for Marsh...but that's not really how the book played out for me. Every time there was a choice, I basically chose the route that had me reading this one cover to cover. So when the thing that excited me most about this book - choose-your-own-adventure - didn't really play out that way, it was hard to overcome my disappointment.
After reading the book from beginning to end, my curiosity got the best of me and I went back to see how the story would play out differently. Honestly, none of the alternatives really changed the direction of the story, so I was let down once again.
I really enjoyed the first half of this book, but it definitely went in a bizarre direction for the next quarter and then wrapped up fairly well in the last quarter. This one had a ton of potential and had me more excited for a book than I've been in a long time, but there was just too much let down for this to be a real winner for me. Regardless, by far the most creative and fun book I've read in awhile!
Marsh (short for Marshmallow) is chosen as the season 3 contestent on a reality show that allows her to go back to critical moments of her life to fix, or choose, a different path. Would she still chose to divorce her husband? Would she prioritize her career more the second time around? Would she move abroad to explore different career options? Marsh visits all of these choice - and more! - during her second chance at life.
I LOVE the concept of this book and headed in with the full intention of making the choices I liked for Marsh...but that's not really how the book played out for me. Every time there was a choice, I basically chose the route that had me reading this one cover to cover. So when the thing that excited me most about this book - choose-your-own-adventure - didn't really play out that way, it was hard to overcome my disappointment.
After reading the book from beginning to end, my curiosity got the best of me and I went back to see how the story would play out differently. Honestly, none of the alternatives really changed the direction of the story, so I was let down once again.
I really enjoyed the first half of this book, but it definitely went in a bizarre direction for the next quarter and then wrapped up fairly well in the last quarter. This one had a ton of potential and had me more excited for a book than I've been in a long time, but there was just too much let down for this to be a real winner for me. Regardless, by far the most creative and fun book I've read in awhile!