Endless Summer, Book 2

Endless Summer, Book 2 is the second book of the Endless Summer series. It succeeds its first book, Endless Summer, Book 1, and is followed by Endless Summer, Book 3.

Summary
''The adventure of a lifetime continues! Saving your friends will take you to the wildest reaches of La Huerta, where truly anything is possible...''

Act IV, Chapter 1: The Unknown Has Always Been a Comfort to Me
"The adventure of a lifetime continues! Saving your friends will take you to the wildest reaches of La Huerta, where truly anything is possible..."

Act IV, Chapter 2: Time Is Of The Essence
"You journey across a surreal paradise to save your friends, but the island threatens to trap you forever..."

Act IV, Chapter 3: Those Left Behind
"The Watchers have plans for Diego! Will you be able to rescue him from the forbidden Valley of Tombs?"

Act IV, Chapter 4: Island Justice
"A prophesied cataclysm lies ahead! Can you convince the Watcher queen of your innocence in time to do something about it?"

Act IV, Chapter 5: There Are Many Things I Keep Hidden
"Who's the newcomer to Sharktooth Isle? You and your friends set out on a rollicking quest for pirate's booty!"

Act IV, Chapter 6: You Can't Save Everyone
"You've escaped your pirate island prison with the help of a daring new friend... but will you risk your freedom for a village in trouble?"

Act V, Chapter 7: Everything at Once
"With Quinn on the brink of death, your only hope to cure her is hidden in a surreal parralel world. Will you find your way back in time?"

Act V, Chapter 8: Let's Promise We'll Do This Again
"At the Vaanti's coronation festival, you celebrate Quinn's return... but she may have come back as something else entirely."

Act V, Chapter 9: Toward a New Horizon
"A former ally discloses surprising secrets. The road home stretches out before you, but can you survive the journey?"

Act V, Chapter 10: Every End Is a Beginning... Except the Last One
"Sheltering from a blizzard in an isolated mountain lodge, you and your friends celebrate your stroke of luck with a party you'll never forget."

Act VI, Chapter 11: Trust is a Fragile Thing
"One of your friends is not what they seem. How will your journey northward fare with a spy in your midst?"

Act VI, Chapter 12: Last Chance to Turn Back
"In the shadow of Rourke's fortress, you and your friends spend one last night together before launching your daring plan to get home."

Act VI, Chapter 13: All We Have is Now
"Your best hope for getting off the island is hidden somewhere inside the futuristic MASADA facility. Meanwhile, Rourke has his own plans..."

Act VI, Chapter 14: You Can't Promise Anything Anymore
"At last, you and your friends find your way home... only to learn there's no home to go back to."

Act VI, Chapter 15: Self-Destruct
"All is lost in the wake of Aleister's betrayal as Rourke sentences you to death."

New Gameplay Features
To enhance the experience, several new gameplay features were added in Book 2. See Endless Summer, Book 2 Choices for more detailed explanations.

Character Re-customization:
Even if you import your character from Book 1, at the start of the book, you'll have the choice to re-customize your character with a wider range of skintones and hairstyles, rather than selecting one of the four original designs.

Closet:
The closet feature was added to the series for the first time. This feature allows you to customize your clothes and appearance in game outside of critical plot choices. It was introduced in LoveHacks, Book 1, and was subsequently added into new books of all Choices stories.

Tough Choices:
You will occasionally have to make tough choices, which rely on your relationship to other characters for success. If you succeed at a tough choice, you can unlock new choices, costumes, and more. You will also earn a larger than normal friendship or romance boost with the character in question, If you fail however, you will lose special opportunities and will lose a larger than normal amount of friendship or romance.

You can always walk away from a Tough Choice rather than risk it.

Romance Meter:
The romance meter tracks how invested your love interests are in your relationship. When Your Character initiates a romance, their friendship icon is replaced with the romance meter. You can initiate a romance with Sean, Jake, Quinn, or Estela, as long as you are at least friends with them. As with friendship, romance can be increased by saying and doing things that your love interest approves of. Special romance points (dates) are available throughout the Book, which can greatly increase your romance level with the chosen love interest without interference from other characters. As you increase your romance level, the hearts of the romance meter will be filled in, ranging from "Casual" (half a heart) to "Soulmate" (three hearts). Due to what Pixelberry cheekily refers to as "island rules", you may date up to all four love interests at once, if you so choose. Bear in mind that since dates are exclusive to one love interest at a time, you probably won't be able to max out a romance level with everyone.

Idols:
Catalyst idols are a combination of clues and the premium choices found in all stories. There are twelve catalyst idols throughout the Book to collect. Each one offers a bonus scene, which plays nearly immediately within the chapter where it was found, wherein you learn more about your friends' backstories and motivations. As with clues, collecting all of them will unlock a bonus scene at the end of the book, on top of the ones you get through collecting them at all. You will receive the first Catalyst Idol (Pavo, corresponding to Michelle) for free so you can learn how they work, but all subsequent idols cost 12 diamonds. Also as with clues, you will be told at the end of the chapter if you missed a Catalyst Idol or if there wasn't one in the chapter.

Dating:
There is also a new feature for the Love Interest characters: Sean, Jake, Estela, and Quinn. If you pursued one of them in the previous book, you will have the opportunity to start dating them! You will come to a choice later that will allow you to begin dating them. If you agree to date one of them, the face before their name will change to three hearts. The hearts have six stages and the more relationship points you gain with them, the more the hearts will fill in. When you choose to date them, you will start with half of one heart. You will also have the opportunity to date all of them at once, but you will have to choose one of them in the end. Moreover,at the end of Act VIII of Endless Summer, Book 3, a handfasting ceremony will be held. Handfastings are commonly used in Wiccan and Pagan ceremonies. Nowadays however, the handfasting is more literal: a couple will bind their hands together during the ceremony (before, during, or after reciting their vows), often to symbolize their connection and devotion to one another. The maximum amount your character can reach with any love interest is 2 hearts; 2.5 hearts and the full 3 hearts are only achieved in the third book. In Chapter 2 of Endless Summer, Book 3, it is mentioned how after you've significantly developed your relationship with one of the four love interests your character has been dating, they'll be ready to take the next step. If your character accepts their proposal, then you'll have the opportunity to become handfasted in a lavish ceremony with all of your friends present.
 * .5 heart = casual
 * 1 full heart = LI is now official with you!
 * 1.5 hearts = LI is crazy about you!
 * 2 full hearts = LI is serious about you!
 * 2.5 hearts = LI is in love with you!
 * 3 full hearts = Soulmates

Trivia

 * The Fox on the cover of Book 2 is of a different color than on the cover of Book 1. The Book 1 cover illustrates the fox as purple with blue eyes, while the Book 2 cover illustrates it as blue with purple eyes, matching the fox's actual appearance.
 * The idea that all of Choices' series take place in one common universe is explicitly confirmed in this book and strengthened through numerous evidence.
 * Hartfeld University, the main location from "The Freshman" and "The Sophomore" series is shown through the idols' flashbacks several times.
 * Your character, Jake, Sean and Quinn are established to be fans of "The Crown &amp; The Flame", a popular television show in Choices' other series.
 * Jake is the brother of Rebecca McKenzie, an LAPD officer from the "Most Wanted" series.
 * Blaire Hall is Grace's mother, and her company, Mansingh Transglobal, is actually referenced many times throughout the series.
 * There is a strong possibility that the "Hero" and the Endless Summer series will intertwine. Characters like Silas Prescott and Everett Rourke have been referenced in the opposite series. Since Silas and Everett are both businessmen, it is implied that they have an ongoing feud. They are also very similar to one another, as both of them are the primary antagonists of their respective series, both have sons who disapprove of their actions (Grayson  and  Aleister )  and both of them are concocting schemes of world domination.
 * This is the first book that visibly shows a dead body instead of letting the player simply visualize a character's death through dialogue. In this book, it is Ximaedra's dead body that is illustrated after she is mortally electrocuted by Cetus.