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Got back from the vacation that was supposed to fix me yesterday, I’ve been awake for an hour and it’s been ruined already.

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Every day at my new job I suggest something I can do to help and the response I get makes me feel like Kaladin after he said the words “and for my boon”

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So glad to be back in the law school I always get left out of things here

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I used to judge all the boys in my high school for being obsessed with this girl in my class but last night I had a dream she was flirting with me and I gotta say, I’m so sorry I get it now if I hadn’t been repressing my bisexuality I’d have been right there with you guys

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If I had a nickel for every time I chose a blond boy over a boy who is actually my type in reality, I’d have four nickels which isn’t a lot but I’ve never even breathed in the direction of a blond boy so why do I like these four so much?

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Years Apart better bring us one thing: new faces

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Big Sky Country 2 Review & Replay

Book: Big Sky Country 2

Replay: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsAPMi0hehuGwL2IVdQOxQZpbJ43lTTMB&si=kkQogXhAhcQknJy9

Overall Rating:

9/10 because the first one is better but this one is still good and fun. The cover is hot. It’s a shame Sawyer couldn’t stay hot.

Favorite Outfit Rating:

The outfits were still not great. The one for the auction was actually okay, and obviously all the party ones are fine. But wearing that pink dress to do chores? No chance.

LI Ranking and Rating:

Dallas – 10/10. Meeting his mom and clearing his name means so much to me.

Juliette – 9/10. I play with her as endgame too, might come back and redo it if I have time before this app fades into oblivion.

Asha – 10/10. She deserved a plot and baby got it. I’m so proud of her.

Sawyer – 9/10. Going with him to the hospital? Amazing.

Side Character Ranking and Rating:

They are all great and full of character. I can’t think of any new ones who really made much of an impact? Obviously new villains, but Tate is lame.

Dallas’s mom is great

Brooklynne is my queen. Love that girl

Love that Cliff sees MC as a daughter. She is fab.

Other Relationship Ranking and Rating:

Curley and Bentley 3/10. I don’t get it. Curley deserves better.

Brooklynne and Miles 8/10. Cuties.

Cliff and Anne Marie 7/10.

Category:

Romance

Story Rating:

I love an election. That was good. I love Cliff trusting us with the farm. It is my lifelong dream to have horses though so I want it.

Romance Rating:

10/10. I could never rate Dallas anything less.

Main Character Rating:

10/10 she grows into her own in this book and becomes confident in the value she brings. You will never make me say anything negative about her.

Art Rating:

It’s still a cute place. The art didn’t really add much of anything for this book.

Starting Gems/Ending Gems:

5394. ending no clue? 5411?

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Big Sky Country Replay and Review

Book: Big Sky Country 1

Replay: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsAPMi0hehuGwL2IVdQOxQZpbJ43lTTMB&si=HEUg2-vxXf7lbXI_

Overall Rating:

10/10. This book is everything my little country girl heart could dream of. The sweet, silly, strange townfolks. The county fair. The animals. The rivalry with the neighbors. The city girl trying to find somewhere safe and fulfilling to land. I LOVE IT. This is one of the best books.

Favorite Outfit Rating:

I refuse to rate these outfits because none of them are appropriate for the farm (I guess the winter one was appropriate for winter).

This book does have the most appropriate non-diamond outfit. The black tank and jeans are something I have worn on the farm this month.

LI Ranking and Rating:

Dallas 10/10.

Juliette 9/10.

Asha – she gets a bad shake in this book because we never see her! Much higher rating in book 2.

Sawyer – he’s ugly. If he weren’t, that would be amazing as a storyline.

Side Character Ranking and Rating:

Miles and Brooklynne – my babies. I love them.

The townies are so small town. They are weird and I love it

Dick mulligan is the worst and I love that for him.

What’s his face at agracorp is so smug and smarmy and judgmental of people living in rural America. Great villain.

The animals are amazing. I usually hate them but this is a ranch book so they had to be there.

SPIKE. 10/10

Other Relationship Ranking and Rating:

Miles and Brooklynne – 8/10.

Cliff and Annemarie – 7/10. I love when widows and widowers find love

Category:

Fun but also it could be adventure.

Story Rating:

10/10. I love this book. I love saving the farm from the big bad corporation. It hits very close to home because my dad is a farmer, single man and much child labor (my siblings and myself) operation, and is so passionate about sustainability (he’d never call it that but he does care about it a lot) and his animals that I feel the same way.

Romance Rating:

Dallas is perfect. I also play with Juliette too and I think hers is great too. Asha’s in this book is trash but next book with the campaign is great.

Main Character Rating:

I love my little city girl who falls in love with the country. I love that she adapts and welcomes farm life with open arms.

Starting Gems/Ending Gems:

Starting 5268. Ending 5394

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Bachelorette Party Review

Book: Bachelorette Party

Replay: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsAPMi0hehuHAYwfosWMP6y86O67Durzg&si=LGKznnFd5qjO3I4Z

Overall Rating:

10/10. I love this book. I was going to say 9/10, but I can’t this is just so fun and perfect.

Favorite Outfit Rating:

Every group outfit – the Vegas showgirl costume, the doomsday/Fury inspired costumes, the cover outfits, are all perfect and I love them. THE PANDA OUTFITS. Amazing. No notes.

LI Ranking and Rating:

Aisha is amazing, she was a revolutionary character in Choices and should have been the first of many rather than the first of few. Normally my character will flirt with every love interest, but she has the same name as a family member and I loved Ash at first sight. It also felt important for my character not to lead her on or cheapen their friendship by having a fling.

Ash is great. He’s funny. He’s likable. He’s a little rough around the edges but has a good heart. I’m a sucker for that.

Reed is good. I’m not big on the military industrial complex so I wouldn’t choose him.

Side Character Ranking and Rating:

The three other members of the girl group are awesome. 10/10.

The Norwegian mafia is so fun. Astrid and Sven are absolutely iconic.

The people in the desert are such a fun addition.

Other Relationship Ranking and Rating:

Courtney and Mario – she’s so fun. I adore her. I like them together.

Skip and Diana. 0/10

Category:

Fun.

Story Rating:

I love this story. It leans into the craziness and the sexiness of a Bachelorette Party. 10/10

Art Rating:

8/10 – the Vegas art is really good. The doomsday art is fun too.

Romance Rating:

8/10 – it was meant to be a fling but we do get a glimpse of it being more serious in the end. I love that touch. The LIs are all so likable and fun, it would be easy to romance them all.

Main Character Rating:

10/10. She’s also an attorney so automatic 10/10.

Starting Gems/Ending Gems:

5248 starting, 5268 ending.

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Baby Bump 2 Review

Book: Baby Bump 2

Replay: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsAPMi0hehuG2QTFg-QSFBFuEpxw5pFgp&si=MhqPj2iz23u2EW_0

Overall Rating:

7/10. I love those little babies. They are so cute. They are the best part of this. The story felt a little bit more interesting as well.

Favorite Outfit Rating:

Trailblazer 8/10: very appropriate for the occasion and perfect southern vibes I thought.

Fuzzy Feelings 9/10: not appropriate for the occasion, but so cute.

Blusing bride 10/10 so hot love it.

Those other maternity outfits were so bad. Not a fan.

LI Ranking and Rating:

I had Clint. It was fine.

Side Character Ranking and Rating:

Love the friendship with Cassandra. It’s like a less dangerous and, admittedly, cheaper, version of the friendship with Olivia Nevrakis.

The brothers were a nice addition, we don’t always get to see the families of LIs, or have them be likable, so they were good.

The babies. 10/10. So cute, so funny, I love them.

Other Relationship Ranking and Rating:

Cassandra and Gavin are cute. He’s not the perfect match for her but I’m glad she liked him all along and he wasn’t a second choice.

Category:

Fun/Family

Story Rating:

I liked the storyline. It was nice that everything worked out in the end for the Mayor, who I changed to Whitney, but that it took a while and everyone had to learn how to make a difference without having the Mayor on their side.

The wedding was lovely.

The babies are everything. I adore them and their cute little faces. I wish they had looked older when they were 1 though.

Romance Rating:

The romance was good I’m just not super compelled by this LI>

Art Rating:

7/10 – there was some good art here for all the diamond upgrades we had to buy. I still liked them even if they cost diamonds though.

Main Character Rating:

6/10. She is a sweet mom. That was fun.

Starting Gems/Ending Gems:

5105 starting. 5248 ending.

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Baby Bump Book 1 Replay and Review

Replay: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsAPMi0hehuG2QTFg-QSFBFuEpxw5pFgp&si=S2UztE1Q2Yafrxoh

Book: Baby Bump 1

Overall Rating:

6/10. I did enjoy this, so it goes on the higher side of the rating. I’m really enjoying these replays. I liked this and it reminded me it wasn’t as bad as I was thinking.

Favorite Outfit Rating:

Cowgirl Cutie – I didn’t buy this one on my first play through and I don’t know why, I like it best. 8/10

Smart Cookie – not appropriate for the occasion, but very cute 6/10

Job interview trendsetter – I chose the professional one but I do like the trendsetter one. 7/10

Boudoir Babe – this is so hot, especially when we have big boobs in the next chapter. 9/10

LI Ranking and Rating:

The Mayor is ugly as a man, stunning as a woman. I played with a man to see if he would become hot because I played as a woman last time. She was hot, but I just will always feel the tug to choose the father of my children.

Clint is hot, but he’s so nice and a southern gentleman. And I don’t like that personality. I like the grumpiness of the mayor.

5/10

Side Character Ranking and Rating:

Ehh they are fine. Luisa should be a love interest. The villains are good at being villains.

Actually, the party girl Kylie in the cowgirl chapter is one of my favorite side characters.

Anna is a good sister. she and Bao are cute

6/10

Other Relationship Ranking and Rating:

The baker girls – cute. No opinion.

Luisa and Elijah – cute. But both of them would make good LIs.

Dr. and cop – I literally don’t care.

Anna and Bao – I like them. I’m glad the sister gets to be happy too.

Category:

Fun

Story Rating:

Ehh. I enjoyed it a lot more this time than I did last time. It doesn’t crack my favorites though. The renovation aspect could have been expanded to more businesses and that would have been a really fun focus instead of bringing in Selma and that job. Could have been about convincing each council member to swing their vote, since Choices loves making us convince people.

5/10. Maybe lower, I like my idea way better.

Art Ranking:

Scenes are very basic and nothing I haven’t seen before.

The blanket was very cute though

4/10

Romance Rating:

Just no.

4/10

Main Character Rating:

I don’t like her. I don’t dislike her.

5/10

Starting Gems/Ending Gems:

5334. ending 5105. I bought a lot of scenes I didn’t have previously. I don’t anticipate playing a lot of the new books, so I figured I should spend my diamonds on something.

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A Very Scandalous Proposal

Book: A Very Scandalous Proposal

Replay: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsAPMi0hehuHL6RypE_8NtaEkvtjfnyRa&si=MYzoF13xxQHws7Ty

Overall Rating:

8/10.

This book soars as a rom com. I love it. I love playing it again and again. The outfits are absolutely top tier. They are unparalleled in the Choices universe. Simon is a great single LI. He is interesting and it’s a bit enemies to lovers, but not in the cliché choices way of a grumpy LI. He’s not grumpy, but he’s not absolutely enamored right away. I will always like this book.

Favorite Outfit Rating:

This book has the best outfits in all of Choices. I am going to name almost all of them below as my favorites. 10/10 on the outfit front.

Lady of London Outfit – I think it is actually an appropriate outfit for its occasion, which is something Choices is terrible at.

Smart Set Secretary Outfit – the best professional wear in all of Choices. I would wear it.

The Next Generation Outfit – I am obsessed with it. The colors are amazing

Grande Dame – Karen Huger would be proud to wear this. So would I.

Heir Apparent – there are no words. This outfit is everything to me. The color and ombre effect are perfect. It makes me so happy.

Art:

I love the manor map that you can fill in with scenes. The rest of the art is pretty basic and usually repetitive.

LI Ranking and Rating:

This is the best single LI. I have Simon, but I think there is actual chemistry with the MC and there’s a real reason for Simon to be the only love interest.

Side Character Ranking and Rating:

Mitzi is fab.

Nigel is not.

Simon’s friends could be interesting but they aren’t in the book enough.

I like the staff at the manor.

I like Genevieve but I hate that she’s just a reused face. She deserves better.

Arabella is kind of a good ex/villain.

Tommy sucks. Terrible friend. 0/10 would not recommend.

Other Relationship Ranking and Rating:

Juliet and Cecile are cute. No other comment.

Category:

Rom Com

Story Rating:

Very basic story. But I enjoyed it a lot. 7/10

Romance Rating:

Very slow burn. 8/10

Main Character Rating:

She is allowed to have a personality, so that’s cool. 6/10

Starting Gems/Ending Gems:

Forgot to do this too, ended with 5303

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AME Book 3 Review

Book: America’s Most Eligible 3

The link to the playlist of my replays on YouTube is on the book 1 review.

Overall Rating:

I had a lot of fun replaying AME. Is it dumb sometimes? Yes. Are the Love Interests kind of lacking? Yes. But it’s fun. It’s funny. It doesn’t take itself too seriously. I’ve honestly enjoyed it.

This book isn’t the best. I didn’t love it. But I’m a fan of the wedding books so I still had fun. Again, should be able to choose between multiple dresses. Honestly there should be 3 diamond choices for wedding dresses every time. One free is fine, but two would be ideal.

6/10

Favorite Outfit Rating:

Garden Goddess

Sin City

The most offensive part of this book was not having multiple diamond wedding dresses. I will always pay to get the wedding dress I like. This wasn’t the worst wedding dress though, it’s pretty but I wouldn’t have chosen it against some of the others in the choices universe.

LI Ranking and Rating:

Only done this with Derek. Love that we can choose someone other than the four main LIs. I think I’m just so stoked to be able to choose a LI in this era of single LI.

Side Character Ranking and Rating:

Mom is great. Family of LI was nice.

Other Relationship Ranking and Rating:

Ivy and Carson. They work.

Sierra and Vince. They work because they suck.

Category:

Fun

Story Rating:

5/10. Average wedding story even with the AME game show differences.

Romance Rating:

7/10 because it was more realistic. When LI didn’t like the way AME was going and wanted to do things their own way for their wedding, that made a lot of sense to me.

Main Character Rating:

9/10 because I’m getting annoyed. But still okay because of customization. There was more customization but I didn’t love it.

Starting Gems/Ending Gems:

I honestly forgot to do this...

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AME 2 Replay and Rating

America’s Most Eligible 2

Overall Rating:

6/10. It was a step down from the last book, so it has to have a lower ranking. It could have been good. Also, I don’t understand what is appealing about watching this as a tv show. It would be so boring, there are hardly any couples. And no real drama.

Favorite Outfit Rating:

Aquamarine 7/10/Winter Rose 7/10

LI Ranking and Rating:

Derek – still boring but at least he’s not one of the formulaic interests who is the same no matter what race they are

Mackenzie – she’s fun. I’m glad she’s there

Jen – I don’t really have anything to say.

Adam – I have even less to say

Slater – ugh he’s not hot enough for how enticing his route is.

Bianca is in love with me...

Side Character Ranking and Rating:

Vince, Slater, Eden, Heath, Kiana, Yvette, Bianca, Ivy

Crash – fan of that guy

Vince is a good villain. Glad he’s there

Ivy is so fun to be mean to

Slater is fun if you get over his bad outfits and his not being hot

Bianca is my ride or die

Piper, Carson, Omar

I would have slapped Carson.

Other Relationship Ranking and Rating:

Kiana and Eden (Kiana would never date Heath). They’re cute!!

Category:

Fun

Story Rating:

Not as bad as I remembered it being. I liked that they gave us duos as a twist so it brought a new dynamic. The challenges were not fun at all.

6/10

Romance Rating:

It was a little better than last time. I almost wanted Derek at the end.

5/10

Art Rating:

7/10 because I liked what they added – Iceland was beautiful.

Main Character Rating:

It’s very good to choose the persona. I’ll keep her at 10/10.

Starting Gems/Ending Gems:

4511 starting, 4517 ending

Replay: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsAPMi0hehuEQQ2iHAZxYL1p9CXiUNqAl&si=Z9RNwHn2iRUtE4U2

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Review: AME 1

Book: America’s Most Eligible 1

Overall Rating:

7/10. I think parts of it were so great. The forming of alliances. The ability to be a villain. But I play for the romance. And the romance didn’t do it for me. Give us nothing, girl.

Favorite Outfit Rating:

The Suitress (ombre dress) 10/10 for the occasion, Red Carpet Ready (white set) 8/10, Hear of the Sea (blue ombre dress) 8/10

LI Ranking and Rating:

Derek

Mackenzie

Jen

Adam

I think the LIs in book 1 are weak. I like getting to kiss other people. But I don’t like the LIs here. I think the better LIs are coming in the next books. They are more interesting. Mackenzie is interesting as a character, but I’m not a huge fan of her as an LI. Jen could be interesting.

In this book, LIs get a 4/10 ranking.

Side Character Ranking and Rating:

Obsessed. Ivy is a great villain. Han and Zeke make me laugh. Bianca and Lina are amazing. Piper is so good as a producer. Love these people

8/10

Other Relationship Ranking and Rating:

I like the feature of building relationships. It was a lot of fun. This book is fun in a lot of ways.

Category:

Fun

Story Rating:

This story is fun. I like it. It’s not bad. I get why it’s in the top 10 for choices. I don’t think it’ll be in my top 10. But I did have a lot of fun playing it again.

7/10

Art Rating:

Not great. Not horrible.

6/10

Romance Rating:

4/10. I just don’t want these people.

Main Character Rating:

10/10 because you can be who you want. I played as a villain this time. And it was great I loved it.

Starting Gems/Ending Gems:

4512 starting, 4494 ending. I did buy some choices, I did make choices that took different paths than I had previously.

Replay: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsAPMi0hehuEQQ2iHAZxYL1p9CXiUNqAl&si=5Sk1ciCucu_96Ja0

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I scare easily but nothing in TerrorFest will scare me more than Chapter 3. We got to ask if we were under arrest but the second part is to leave if the answer is no and to say give me a lawyer if yes. I hate being an attorney it makes me mad about everything that no one cares about

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PS don’t ask me where Chapter 14 is… I’ll add it later. No idea when.

Alpha Replay and Ranking

Replay: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsAPMi0hehuHi14gCCrGH3ETlYzNGCPc7&si=K3yvm2G8nPbGPQLj

Book: Alpha

Overall Rating:

5/10. This was nothing special. I don’t want to rank it lower because there are some way worse. But I may change this if I encounter books I like better that don’t deserve higher ratings. Idk.

Favorite Outfit Rating:

Top Dog

LI Ranking and Rating:

Channing. No thoughts. Generic power imbalance Love Interest.

Side Character Ranking and Rating:

Kala is awesome. I love a bad bitch.

The twins were fun and funny. I did like them.

I liked going to the lodge to meet the other werewolves. We didn’t get to know them much though. Also, it felt like there needed to be some more real adults around. Especially if we get a book 2. A bunch of kids against grown adults? The kids’ success is never believable.

Other Relationship Ranking and Rating:

I guess there was Cal and Asher. They were fine.

Category:

Smut.

Story Rating:

3/10. I didn’t enjoy it much. I tried to, and I used all the diamond options to try enhancing it. There was no story without them, there wasn’t much story with them. I checked my ranking for Across the Void and had to lower this ranking because ATV was a better story.

Art Rating:

5/10. I liked the Alpha House and the secret garden. The wilderness was good. The lodge being busted up confused me. The outfits were pretty good. Channing was hot for a Choices love interest.

Romance Rating:

6/10. The soulmate thing did get me. It was a little angsty sometimes. And I liked it. Other than that though, it was basic.

Main Character Rating:

7/10. She had a lot more personality than others have. I liked that.

Starting Gems/Ending Gems:

4147 – ended with 4512