My Lady's Choosing: An Interactive Romance Novel

by Kitty Curran, Larissa Zageris

Overview

The romance novel that lets you pick your path, follow your heart, and find happily ever after

You are the plucky but penniless heroine in the center of eighteenth-century society, courtship season has begun, and your future is at hand. Will you flip forward fetchingly to find love with the bantering baronet Sir Benedict Granville? Or turn the page to true love with the hardworking, horse-loving highlander Captain Angus McTaggart? Or perhaps race through the chapters chasing a good (and arousing) man gone mad, bad, and scandalous to know, Lord Garraway Craven? Or read on recklessly and take to the continent as the “traveling companion” of the spirited and adventuresome Lady Evangeline? Or yet some other intriguing fate?

Unexpected and multiple intertwining storylines make this novel a daring delight to read again and again, with beguiling illustrations bringing all the lust and love to life.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781683690139
Publisher:	Quirk Publishing
Publication date:	04/03/2018
Pages:	352
Sales rank:	150,436
Product dimensions:	5.23(w) x 7.98(h) x 0.93(d)

About the Author

Larissa Zageris and Kitty Curran are the creative team behind the hit viral Kickstarter project Taylor Swift: Girl Detective as well as countless other zines and comics. Larissa is a writer, educator, and photographer whose work has appeared in McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, among many other internet places. Kitty is an illustrator and comics artist who is Actually British and knows all about courtship rituals, the peerage, and upper-crust accents.

Read an Excerpt

"Move that leg, girl!” the dowager Lady Craven hisses as she prods you with her cane. The two of you are sitting in the back of her rather shabby carriage on the way to your first social event since you started working as her lady’s companion more than a year ago. Sadly, this behavior is far from extraordinary, so you merely sigh and squeeze yourself into an even tinier part of the seat. At this point, one more prod and you would be making love to the carriage door.
(Continues…)

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Editorial Reviews

11/20/2017
Curran and Zageris’s cheeky riff on the Choose Your Own Adventure stories puts readers in the shoes of a feisty 28-year-old Regency miss who’s living as a lady’s companion to a sour dowager. The pinched old woman’s beautiful niece offers the reader a choice of futures, including a romance with a traditional haughty hero who covers his desire with angry indifference. Other candidates for love include a Scottish war hero and a do-gooder with a penchant for helping orphans. Then there is the dowager’s son, Lord Craven, a Gothic hero living with his strange servants in the Yorkshire moors, who hires the plucky heroine as his son’s governess. Readers may also pursue an Egyptian adventure that includes a passionate affair with the dowager’s niece. The authors understand romance novel tropes, and those looking for a farcical romp will find plenty of laughs, winks, and nods in how the stories play out. (Apr.)

Publishers Weekly

An enticing romp.”—Entertainment Weekly

“If you've ever been frustrated by a romantic heroine's choices, this book is for you.”—Bustle

“Options abound in this quirky spoof that will beg to be re-read over and over as you explore every avenue.”—Harper's Bazaar

“Choose your own adventure and succumb to your passions again and again and again.”—Chicago Reader

“Whether you favor Mr. Darcy or Jamie Fraser of ‘Outlander,’ this book…delivers agency with a side of humor.”—Chicago Tribune

“A tale of non-stop intrigue. . . . [My Lady’s Choosing] is the perfect introduction to Regency era romance.”—The Gazette

“Fun, pick your own adventure book just for romance lovers.”—GeekMom

“I don’t want to influence your path, except with this: buy the book, take some romance for a spin, and have some laughs along the way.”—Geeks of Doom

“Dearest, choose this adventure.”—Autostraddle

“Entertaining.”—Jane Austen News

“Curran and Zageris’s cheeky riff on the Choose Your Own Adventure stories puts readers in the shoes of a feisty 28-year-old Regency miss who’s living as a lady’s companion to a sour dowager… those looking for a farcical romp will find plenty of laughs, winks, and nods in how the stories play out.”—Publishers Weekly

“A Byronic hero, a Highlander and a scandalous aristocratic lady as potential lovers? We’re sold.”—BookPage

“A wonderful use of the Choose Your Own Adventure Format while also paying respect to Austen.”—B&N Reads 

“For a lover of the romance genre, this is a great way to shake things up. The structure and story are so incredibly unique and creative...Sheer genius."—Nose in a Book

“You've never read a book like this before! Both hysterical and utterly engrossing, this book puts you in the driver's seat of your own historical romance. While reading MY LADY'S CHOOSING, I laughed, I swooned, and then I started again from page one to do it all over again with a different love interest!”—Carrie DiRisio, author of  BroodingYAHero: Becoming A Main Character (almost) As Awesome as Me

From the Publisher

04/15/2018
Harking back to those fun-filled, choose-your-own-adventure stories beloved of kids and teens, this lighthearted book takes the reader—in this case, you, a 28-year-old penniless Regency-era heroine in search of a match—on any number of romantic escapades on her way to the requisite happy ending. Characters, settings, and situations are typical of the genre but pushed to the limit (e.g., featuring orphans, werewolves, double-dealings, Egyptian antiquities). The second-person point of view, unusual and disconcerting at first but common to this format, works as intended. Although not an original concept, this is nicely written and inventively done. Even the instructions are fun to read. VERDICT This hilarious, often silly, and over-the-top spoof of romance novels is in no way your typical historical romance, but the myriad possibilities, fast tempo, and tongue-in-cheek approach make it a most entertaining if somewhat page-flipping experience. Debut authors Curran and Zageris, who must have had a ball writing this, live in Chicago.

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