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Pretty Little Mistakes: A Do-Over Novel
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by Heather Mcelhatton
Sales Rank: 83519
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Discount: 32 %
List Price: $14.95
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Features
Cover Type: Paperback with 512 pages
Published by: Harper Paperbacks May 1, 2007
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0061133221
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0061133220
Book Dimensions:
7.9 x 5.2 x 0.9 inches
Weighs: 1 pounds
From Publishers Weekly
Adults who remember the Choose Your Own Adventure YA novels are the target audience for this debut from Public Radio International producer McElhatton. The book opens with a female second person's high school graduation, which leads "you" to two possible choices: travel or college. Each succeeding section (mostly between one and four pages) similarly offers two options for proceeding, leading to an impressive array of possible developments, from a trip to Rome that can result in a live-in Italian artist boyfriend, to a dead-end job as a phone sex operator with the moniker of Stormy Sioux. Situations include the playfully surreal, such as a stint in a German circus as a nude ice dancer, and the tender, as in a life lived on the Iceland coast with a lovely, seal-obsessed child who has Down syndrome and a devoted scientist husband. There's also crystal meth addiction, rape, death by explosion, bursts of salty humor and moments of descriptive lyricism, especially in McElhatton's many vivid imaginings of the afterlife ("heaven is a junk shop broken beauty everywhere"). Nevertheless, many situations are cartoonish; some of the events repeat or overlap; and "You" remains a cipher, making this "Do-Over Novel" more role-playing for the rut-stuck than a good read. (May)
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From Booklist
Remember the day of your high-school graduation, when the future positively percolated with possibilities? That's the moment of truth independent radio producer McElhatton seeks to recapture in this do-it-yourself debut boasting "one beginning, 150 endings." Like the Choose Your Own Adventure novels for young adults, this interactive offering puts readers in the driver's seat from page 1, when they must decide whether to attend college or travel. Wanderlusts might find themselves shacked up with an Italian sugar daddy or operating an award-winning Sicilian B and B. (They might also get knocked up by a swarthy janitor at a seedy Santa Monica motel or killed by a pipe-bomb while working as a relief doctor in Chad.) The academically inclined can wind up a successful feminist jeweler or a Denny's waitress felled by a piping-hot bowl of pea soup. In the end, McElhatton's first offering (inspired by failure to get her first novel published) reads more like tongue-in-cheek career counseling than serious literature. Still, dabbling in thoughts of one's destiny proves amusing in small doses (most entries are just a handful of pages). Allison Block
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Reader Reviews
I give this book two stars because I love the concept (think "Sliding Doors" the movie) but the book itself is terrible. I expected some actual storylines/development that then led to making a decision, but it is single one page blurbs....I found myself skipping to the end of the page and making a decision without reading the ludicrous, violent and depressing things that happened in three paragraphs. I really wanted to love this book but was terribly disappointed.
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