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Paperback
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
Format: Bargain Price
There are hundreds of lives sown inside Pretty Little Mistakes, Heather McElhatton's singularly spectacular, breathtakingly unique novel that has more than 150 possible endings. You may end up in an opulent mansion or homeless down by the river; happily married with your own corporation or alone and pecked to death by ducks in London; a Zen master in Japan or morbidly obese in a trailer park. Is it destiny or decision that controls our fate? You can't change your past and start over from scratch in real life—but in Pretty Little Mistakes, you can! But be warned, choose wisely.
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| Good Book, bad delivery |
| Customer Rating: 3 out of 5 |
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The book is a very good read, but AMAZON sent it damaged and with pilot marks on the edges... disappointing.
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| Where's the sequel? |
| Customer Rating: 4 out of 5 |
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Highly amusing book. Nervous types probably wouldn't want to read this in a doctor's waiting room or on a plane flying over the ocean, but it's perfect for a stormy night in front of a cozy fire. I never heard of Choose Your Own Adventure books for kids, so the genre was new to me.
Many of the short biographies are cartoonish, but no more so than real life. Every day, someone wins a Darwin Award for stupid choices.
Pretty Little Mistakes meets all the requirements of a good read: enjoyable while making the reader think. I'm miffed, however, that sequel, promised for Spring of 2008, has still not materialized as of Fall of 2009. Apparently, McElhatton CHOSE to write a novel instead. And she made the wrong choice in allowing her publishers to promote the promised book at the end of the first one.
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| Funny as heck!! |
| Customer Rating: 5 out of 5 |
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This is my first Heather McElhatton book. i happened across in a little book store in PA. This book is just plain funny! i love the simplicity of the choices and their out comes. They are not overly drawn out and exstensive. You either live or die or your happy or sad, you live a good life or ya don't. i really enjoy reading these adventures right before bed because they are short and sweet! My next read of course will be Her newest book - Jenifer johnson is Sick of being single. I'm sure it will be as good as this one....
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| Meh |
| Customer Rating: 2 out of 5 |
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I really wanted to like this book, but after awhile the plot trajectories became juvenile. And the sub-par writing became a distraction. Two stars for effort, though.
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| Imaginative, Hilarious and Touching |
| Customer Rating: 5 out of 5 |
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I thought this book was fantastic. So much so that I gave it to several of my friends as gifts. It's like the "Choose Your Own Adventure" novels I read as a kid. While the situations may deal with a woman going from high school through her life instead of dragon slaying, they are no less fantastic or entertaining. But it's more than just a fun read, some of the threads were really poignant. I won't give them away but I laughed and cried and was elated and disappointed in my varying outcomes. I think this is a really unique and interesting concept and am looking forward to future books from this author.
PS - To all you naysayers on here who say "But I die in every ending!" EVERYBODY DIES SOMETIME. Good grief. And frankly some of the threads take you all the way through the most beautiful heavens you can imagine. Some are terrible hells, of course, but that is the fun of reading this book.
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