I was promised a uniquely interactive detective story. I got Choose Your own Adventure.

I could not get past the obtrusive bright blue hyperlinks in the middle of the detective story: oh, that’s right it is a Choose Your Own Adventure. However it also has the same style of hyperlinks in the middle of sections to link to online resources/books it wants you to buy, which means if you are reading on a Kindle expect to rack up a phone bill finding out what is a story link and what isn’t.

There are some early spelling and grammar errors”as Duke’s body lied behind her” should be “as Duke’s body lay behind her” – unless you’re in a genre where the corpse is walking and talking.

However in trying to fuse two genres, it breaks two important conventions of the second. By convention Choose Your Own Adventure are written in second person, but that is forgivable. The second is that your choices should make a difference to the plot. Several, including the first, do not and by all resolving at the same point after the second choice, it means there is little story difference. Same plot, different window dressing. And that’s when I put it down.

Did Not Finish. I have asked a friend to have a look.