Hotshot was so disappointing for me. As you said, I wanted to play as an actual hockey player (this is coming from someone who is a journalism major and loves hockey.) My thought for a better and enjoyable book was this: we’re actually a hockey player and our romance could either be with a teammate or a player from a rival team, but it wouldn’t just be smut. The sport would be the center focus with our romance adding even more tension and/or conflict within the team. It could’ve been so fun and interesting.
Completeley agree! I'm actually way more into media work than team sports but that doesn't necessarily translate into what makes good fiction! Especially for the purpose of escapism. They have so much romance already and I agree that it's far more interesting when it's not the focus. If we hear about it all the time it's obvious that it's all gonna be fine and makes it feel like nothing else matters that much anyway since it's underdeveloped. It's usually less of a focus when there's multiple LIs so give us a teammate, rival and maybe a fan at least so we have the extra tension of actually being able to choose lol.
Still remember when I thought majority of Choices books were solid and a few ones that stink. Now it’s the complete reverse. Choices took an extreme dive went it comes to the content of their books. These days they refuse to have books that are multiple love interest, playing as a male, or even close to a creative plot. It’s just smut, smut, and more smut. Don’t get me wrong I can enjoy a steamy scene, but when’s the whole book I don’t even bother. Also nowadays the character you play is insufferably annoying and stupid. (Got a little heated there, I’ll dial it back now oops). The only thing that gives me hope was that there was a survey on the app, where we voiced our opinion. Best know I let them have it. Cuz Roommates with benefits and the duchess affair made me physically ill!
HAH you've read my mind to be honest. I like to give them the benefit of the doubt because there's real people behind these books buuuttt they've taken away all the things that made it important to people and created another one of hundreds of smut apps that don't cater to the people that made the app popular in the first place. I read every book purely so that I can comment on them, but yeesh I struggle through most of what is put out nowadays. Hopefully they'll listen to the surveys but I suppose the majority of their audience now is here for the smut and will probably be voting for it.
Choices used to be my favorite storytelling app back in the day, i remenber playing around the time that the Endless summer book 3 and high school story book 3 were in their final chapters releases and oh my god i loved it so much, and in that point foward there were amazing new books, nowadays? I dont even few like playing new books cause theyre literally porn without a plot so sad that the series is going that way
This seems to be the general opinion of all the old fans :( Their new stuff probably gets a lot of clicks because it's porn or outrageous (like all the other apps) but they've completely lost their loyal fanbase. I was one of those annoying fact-collecting people who could tell you how many love interests had a particular eye colour LMAO (no, really) and I can barely think about it now. There's some genuine grief there, yikes!! I think I started playing in late 2018? I binged the whole catalogue and then liked most of their new releases, but now I like about one book per year. I have vowed to complete all their books for discussion purposes but I sure feel like I've wasted a lot of time.
Okay respectfully of course… RESPECTFULLY!!! I’m not trying to fight Kieran being your least favourite love interest should be a crime. She is my all time favourite
HAH I get it! My condolences for slating Kieran like this, I know they're popular so I'm glad the series has continued. For me it's stuff like the dragging by the hair, ownership and other unsafe BDSM elements made me super uncomfortable and I just don't like the personality/relationship of Kieran and the MC to be completely honest. That being said, that's just my opinion and it's super interesting to hear from somebody who thinks the opposite so I'd love to hear your thoughts on Kieran and The Cursed Heart as a whole if you'd like to share 👀
Hotshot was so disappointing for me. As you said, I wanted to play as an actual hockey player (this is coming from someone who is a journalism major and loves hockey.) My thought for a better and enjoyable book was this: we’re actually a hockey player and our romance could either be with a teammate or a player from a rival team, but it wouldn’t just be smut. The sport would be the center focus with our romance adding even more tension and/or conflict within the team. It could’ve been so fun and interesting.
Completeley agree! I'm actually way more into media work than team sports but that doesn't necessarily translate into what makes good fiction! Especially for the purpose of escapism. They have so much romance already and I agree that it's far more interesting when it's not the focus. If we hear about it all the time it's obvious that it's all gonna be fine and makes it feel like nothing else matters that much anyway since it's underdeveloped. It's usually less of a focus when there's multiple LIs so give us a teammate, rival and maybe a fan at least so we have the extra tension of actually being able to choose lol.
Still remember when I thought majority of Choices books were solid and a few ones that stink. Now it’s the complete reverse. Choices took an extreme dive went it comes to the content of their books. These days they refuse to have books that are multiple love interest, playing as a male, or even close to a creative plot. It’s just smut, smut, and more smut. Don’t get me wrong I can enjoy a steamy scene, but when’s the whole book I don’t even bother. Also nowadays the character you play is insufferably annoying and stupid. (Got a little heated there, I’ll dial it back now oops). The only thing that gives me hope was that there was a survey on the app, where we voiced our opinion. Best know I let them have it. Cuz Roommates with benefits and the duchess affair made me physically ill!
HAH you've read my mind to be honest. I like to give them the benefit of the doubt because there's real people behind these books buuuttt they've taken away all the things that made it important to people and created another one of hundreds of smut apps that don't cater to the people that made the app popular in the first place. I read every book purely so that I can comment on them, but yeesh I struggle through most of what is put out nowadays. Hopefully they'll listen to the surveys but I suppose the majority of their audience now is here for the smut and will probably be voting for it.
Man I've been looking for videos about choices for a long time
YAY, thank god because I have a lot more ideas and the subject is pretty niche ;))
Choices used to be my favorite storytelling app back in the day, i remenber playing around the time that the Endless summer book 3 and high school story book 3 were in their final chapters releases and oh my god i loved it so much, and in that point foward there were amazing new books, nowadays? I dont even few like playing new books cause theyre literally porn without a plot so sad that the series is going that way
This seems to be the general opinion of all the old fans :( Their new stuff probably gets a lot of clicks because it's porn or outrageous (like all the other apps) but they've completely lost their loyal fanbase. I was one of those annoying fact-collecting people who could tell you how many love interests had a particular eye colour LMAO (no, really) and I can barely think about it now. There's some genuine grief there, yikes!! I think I started playing in late 2018? I binged the whole catalogue and then liked most of their new releases, but now I like about one book per year. I have vowed to complete all their books for discussion purposes but I sure feel like I've wasted a lot of time.
Okay respectfully of course… RESPECTFULLY!!! I’m not trying to fight
Kieran being your least favourite love interest should be a crime. She is my all time favourite
HAH I get it! My condolences for slating Kieran like this, I know they're popular so I'm glad the series has continued. For me it's stuff like the dragging by the hair, ownership and other unsafe BDSM elements made me super uncomfortable and I just don't like the personality/relationship of Kieran and the MC to be completely honest. That being said, that's just my opinion and it's super interesting to hear from somebody who thinks the opposite so I'd love to hear your thoughts on Kieran and The Cursed Heart as a whole if you'd like to share 👀
Great video!
Thank you! I had fun 😎
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