3.5 stars

This was a fun read, though the closed loops, inexplicable twists, and chances to backtrack made it a bit frustrating too. (More than once, I considered making a flowchart of the scenes — partly just out of curiosity, partly so I could be sure I had read through to all possible endings.) I was also a bit disappointed that

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all roads lead to a happy ending, though one is as a rich widow and one is endgame F/F; some choices were also deliberately misleading, where the scene that followed didn’t really match the option you were presented

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This is better when read as a playful satire, because there are some absolutely appalling euphemisms contained within. And I was initially thrown by the mashup of genres, but it’s a pretty cool idea.