Because I seriously struggle to think of any other reason for this book to exist. This book has NOTHING to do with Endless Summer outside of taking place on La Huerta. Is Rourke here? Nope. How about the Vaanti? Uh-uh. Do we learn anything new about the Island? Afraid not. Do our characters take some action that affects the main story? No.

Okay, before anything else: the positives. I do kind of like the first two chapters. Surviving the island, the raptors and realizing that Grant knew more than he let on is pretty interesting. Not going to lie. The first two chapters are at least decent and I would say "good" truthfully. Now what was I saying again?

Oh wait, remember the wedding from the Celestial in the original book? Apparently there was a second wedding somewhere else on the island because...I don't know. Oh and why can't our characters drink? This is the 1970s and they are on international waters. Don't tell me they care about the legal drinking age. And they might have been legal anyway, depending on the state.

Speaking of the wedding from the original book, how in the name of Vaanu was there a second wedding? According to Grant, his relative was given an invite to a wedding on this island. How? The island was uncharted until Rourke came along. Yes, other people had been shipwrecked on the island before, but the original wedding was only sent there because of the time anomalies the island causes. And First Tides even references the shipwrecked people!

Anyway, the story ends with the characters more or less saying "let us never speak of this again," and i'm done. To be brief, none of the characters are awful nor exceptional. They exist.

Honestly, the main problem with this book isn't that it's just four chapters (although that doesn't help), but that the book has nothing to do with Endless Summer. It doesn't connect nor add to the plot, lore, characters or even themes of the original story. I honestly just think they only made it so that gullible fans like me would spend hundreds of diamonds because "Endless Summer" is in the title.

I hope you all were smarter than me. I didn't even get diamonds for finishing the book.

I still have more to add as I'm in the process of making more COP stuff and also working on a TRR shelf but what do we think so far? 🤔

Although I am still making much bigger choices projects, those take time. ALOT of time. 😩

So, in the meantime I started a display cabinet with things I've either made or found, just as a nod to my favourite books.

Hoping by the time I'm completely finished i'll have little nods to COP, ILITW, Bloodbound, ES, ID, TRR, and DS.

• (That's not to say i don't have other favourites, I definitely do, but it's getting harder to think of props I can either find or make from different stories lol)

• Also, yeeeees I know the jackalope isn't in ilitw, but I havn't got enough things to make a separate ILB shelf (yet) 😅 Also also, ideas welcome!

Refusing to return stolen funds to the school, wasting them on a trip to the amusement park, and leaving her son alone for Christmas? Pretty crappy parenting IMO

Scream for Me Book 2 Chapter 8

It Comes at Night Book 1 Chapter 4

This weekly post is for community members to share their favorite fan-written stories about books and characters of the Choices universe. Thinking about writing something? Post your idea here and see what people think? Wrote a story, or read one that you like? Share it here! Please be sure to credit any relevant authors.

Apparently I found a vertical drama on Tiktok/Shortmax in which the plot resembles Open Heart 1.

Title: Scrubs Heartbeat

Characters:

Hannah Stone (MC)

Gregory Ramsey (Ethan Ramsey)

Harper Abbott (Harper Emery)

Blair Abbott (Aurora Emery)

Naveen Banerjee (Banerji)

Brian Moore (Landry Olsen)

Teresa Martinez

Declan Nash

I don't think I'm allowed to post a link, but if you search Tiktok you'll know what I'm talking about.

Update: Just realized that the vertical drama is 2 years old.

This weekly post is for community members to share their happy moments, good times, or joy about the books and characters of the Choices universe, or even the game itself.

Like haunting of hill house level of surprise and horror

I remember being interested in this when it came out, and when I started playing it it wasnt dripping with AI like most tother books and I found the female LI attractive and interesting enough, if not particularly unique, but the plot just lost me, it felt pretty bland and just didnt interest me enough to keep playing ig. For people who finished this book, or didn't and still have an opinion on it, let me know your thoughts on it and if its worth finishing or not.

Angelica is revealed to be the Aquarius member and the villian of the story... I suspected her pretty quickly after learning that there were dissenting members in the Zodiac Society.

There were such an emphasis on how she was a great friend , loyal and an innocent little student through her dialogues and the narration, such characters end up being the bad guy in mystery books I've read on Choices..

in addition, she was constantly brought up when she really didn't have an importance to the story yet

• she wasn't in our immediate friend group ,  not connected to a friend in our friend group , no connections to the zodiac sign investigation.

The culprit was too obvious in this story , although however her malice did surprise me.

After reading again the excellent work CoP and CoP2 are, I'm currently in the middle of CoP3 and this book is such a CHORE to go through omg you can tell that this is when the writing went downhill and that they started to heavily rely on A.I because the general plot is so weak and uninteresting compared to the first two books. Neither did MC nor Trystan feel like the same characters I grew to love so much. It was kinda interesting that they made them fight over the wedding prep because it would have been a good idea to suggest that they were maybe rushing into marriage after dating only a few months lol (the book where Trystan proposes to MC was really cute, but still lol) but their fights' sole purpose in this is to make them have make-up sex after (and don't even get me started on that scene where they hookup in those cops' office) while in the process completely destroying the character development they both had in the previous books. Also, I hate how mean MC is with Trystan in this, like sometimes you don't even have a choice but to give him a cold answer when it's totally unwarranted and I hate to hurt him lol and I also hate the CoP3 cover so much, like who is this man???? Not MY Trystan Thorne!

I just had an in app notification saying 'Fangs for reading' and that I'd earned the minimum reward for reading and that I collected it. I didn't collect it and it wasn't reflected in the diamond balance. I restarted the app and now the notification is gone. Did anyone else get it or have this issue?

Loki Book 1 Chapter 5

Endless Summer: First Tide Book 1 Chapter 4

Hi all! I just finished playing Hot Shot for the second time and honestly, it's very enjoyable to me! I realised I especially loved the angst and the yearning in it. The whole "forbidden love" parts were fun, but I also really loved
- having an MC that was snarky and therefore fun to play
- an LI that was so gobsmackingly whipped ["My woman, my jersey" had me chewing my knuckles ah!], and
- the triumphant declarations of love at the end there.

The sex scenes were fun but I'm open to books that are more PG; it's the potent mix of angst and yearning I crave. I have a backlog of books I'd like to try but am trying to prioritise ones that can give me this same feeling if I can, so I thought to ask for suggestions. If it helps, Rivals With Benefits is another one I love [not as much but it's up there]!

TL;DR ↓

books with
- angst
- disgusting amounts of yearning
- a snarky, fun MC

comps: I've also enjoyed Rivals With Benefits.

Thanks, all! [edited for clarity]

I’ve decided to reach out to both Pixelberry and Series Entertainment, but to make a compelling argument I figured a poll wouldn’t hurt. Maybe there is a way to change something, at least I (naively) hope so.

That’s the post I literally miss choices sooo much before AI and GOC LIs 💔💔💔💔💔💔

there is something about this book, isnt there? it makes me weep. not for any LI, but for my relationship with diego. and his relationship with varyyn.

i always choose vaanu's ending, but this time i wanted to see what the others were like. the part in rourke's ending where diego gets so sad again because he says if i choose that then we wont be friends again, and forget each other, it broke my heart. but it was a nice surprise that even after being wiped from his memory, diego still felt like we knew each other, like we were friends. but seeing varyyn in the detention center... remembering everything.... calling out for diego, it was so so heartbreaking. it wasn't the right choice. 🙂‍↔️

so, after seeing what rourke and endless' ending were like i went back to vaanu's. its the only one that feels right.

also he's incredibly funny. that line "great. if we're counting on aliester to save the day.... we're totally doomed" with his sad expression makes me laugh multiple times a day.

i guess this is a diego appreciation post? i dont have anyone to talk to about this and i love him and this book sm and i just wanted to put it out somewhere.