User blog:StoryGirl83/Starting a Second or Later Book While Replaying the First Book

I have been putting off playing "Endless Summer Book 2," because I am replaying book 1 in order to buy a lot of the diamond options and improve my relationships with everyone. At the same time I have been trying to get diamonds for one of the options in "It Lives In the Wood." With the last two weeks only having three updates that weren't "It Lives In the Woods," which I haven't been playing while I've been earning those diamonds, I am one diamond short, so I gave in and decided to play the first chapter of "Endless Summer Book 2."

Much to my surprise I got the option to import my game play. Very curious, I went ahead and picked that option. Sure enough there was Carmen, the character I had created for both playthroughs of book 1. Once I got through character creation/alteration and started playing, I checked. Yep, Zahra still likes me. Sean still is neutral. Aleister still dislikes me. Well, that's true of both playthroughs. Michelle was the telling character. She is neutral while in my second playthrough she likes my character.

I don't know if anyone has ever tried starting or restarting a book while replaying the previous one, but this leads me to believe that they keep your saved data for a playthrough until you finish that playthrough, which is awesome as I suspect I might need to restart some book 2 or laters that I am replaying the first book at some point in the future.

Does anyone else know anything about this or have thoughts on the subject?