User:Jadelady

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I’m pretty old school. My first fandoms were Star Trek and Star Wars before I knew what “fandoms” meant. Nostalgic for Sailor Moon, late 90s Batman and X-Men, and even first (and best) series Power Rangers.

Current fandoms are the Flash, Netflix’s Marvel universe (so much to binge watch!), and stories on the app, Choices: Stories You Play. Getting back to reading too, BookHub is great to test first books before deciding to buy the series/sequels.

For Choices: Stories You Play, I started when the game debuted. I actually started with PB's Hollywood U (and am slightly disappointed that they didn't finish the storyline as your character was aiming to win each of 4 awards - similar to an Oscar, Emmy, Tony, Grammy - but named differently, and only had the chance to win 2 or 3? of them); I added High School Story to my games when it debuted; and from them, Choices.

While I enjoy the books released on Choices, I do have plot nit-picks and criticisms. I'm not sure if I'll share them in blog, but I'm more than willing to discuss them if anyone asks.

My favorite book series has been The Royal Romance, but I have only gone for MC/Liam plot. If it had been written differently, if the MC could stop Liam from proposing (even if you do not romance him and purposely sabotage your MC's chances at court), then I may have re-read it with Drake and Maxwell. But as it stands, I don't have the heart to break his.

Because of TRR, I have named subsequent pets after the characters: I originally renamed the characters in The Rules of Engagement after General Hospital characters. I used to watch the soap over 10 years ago, but as soaps go (and characters and relationships change), I stopped. RoE characters renamed:  MC: Elizabeth, sisters: Sarah and Hayden, brother: Steven, ex-fiance: Rick, European guy: Nikolas, businessman: Luke (aka Lucky), and bartender: Jason. But as I'm replaying the series, I left most (except the MC)'s names as the defaults so they would match TRR. I am currently reading all the new Choices books/chapters, and while I am usually not one to enjoy horror/suspense/scary stories, I love It Lives Beaneath (more than It Lives In The Woods and The Haunting of Braidwood Manor). My "ships":
 * The Senior - cat: Drake; puppy: Maxwell.  (I may change the cat's name to Olivia, since I realized after the fact, that it's a girl)
 * Perfect Match 2 - Sloane's stuffed animal: Liam; UWU:  Maxwell
 * The Elementalists - I chose the Arylu since Shreya got a Lumian, and named him Liam
 * Desire & Decorum - pug: Bastien
 * A Courtesan of Rome - MC/Cassius (although that is subject to change since the book is only on Chapter 5)
 * Across the Void - MC/Meridian (although in this book, relationships are secondary to the actual mission/plot)
 * America's Most Eligible: Season 10 - MC/Adam
 * Big Sky Country - MC/Sawyer
 * Bloodbound, Book 1 - MC/Adrian, and MC/Jax
 * Desire & Decorum, Book 1 - MC/Sinclair, and possibly MC/Hamid
 * Endless Summer series - MC/Jake (although in this series, I wasn't focusing on romance)
 * Hero, Vol. 1 - since it was shortlived, I can't decide between MC/Grayson or Kenji
 * High School Story series - MC/Aiden, and MC/Michael
 * High School Story: Class Act - MC/Rory, and MC/Ajay
 * Home for the Holidays - MC/Wyatt, and MC/Nick
 * It Lives Beneath - MC/Parker
 * It Lives In The Woods - none
 * LoveHacks series - MC/Ben, and MC/Mark
 * Most Wanted - none
 * Perfect Match series - first time to try "open" relationships, MC/all, MC/Hayden, MC/Damien
 * Red Carpet Diaries series - MC/Matt, and though I like MC/Hunt and have tried it for a few chapters, it's difficult when all the previous chapters had MC/Matt's relationship grow (e.g. MC stuck by him through his injury/recovery) and I can't see MC ditching him because the hot director is available for LI now.  When Book 3 comes out, I might replay the previous books to get MC ready for Hunt without romancing Matt.
 * Rules of Engagement series - MC/Leo
 * The Crown & The Flame series - Kenna/Dom
 * The Elementalists - MC/Beckett
 * The Freshman through The Senior series - MC/Chris, MC/Zig
 * The Haunting of Braidwood Manor - none
 * The Heist: Monaco - TBD
 * The Royal Romance series - MC/Liam
 * Veil of Secrets - MC/Flynn (although this was secondary to me)