Join Aralyn as she runs from her past in this Erotic Choose Your Own Adventure novel. Aralyn leaves town when her life is turned upside down. Your blood will race as you explore a new town and new people with Aralyn. She might even get to explore a BDSM Dungeon! Make your own choices and find out.
Jayden Raine Vincente, or J.R. Vincente, is an author of erotic fiction. She has been writing for 15 years, and began publishing in 2015. She has been in the BDSM lifestyle for all of her adult life and has focused her writing on Dominant and submissive relationships. She has published four novels. For more information about the author, check out her website at jrvincente.wordpress.com.
Before I get to the review, let me recap a little conversation… Me: I finished reading that choose-your-erotica book you mentioned. “Friend” (note the quotes…) : Did you find secret scene? Me: Secret scene? You mean the secret she has for most of the book? “Friend“: No! There’s a secret scene from one of the choices. I found it. Didn’t you find it? Who did she end up with? Me: The dog owner was texting her, but she ended up single and fine with it. “Friend“: I can’t believe you missed the secret scene. Me: I can’t believe how much I hate you right now.
I then reread the book, making different choices. And then… read it again. The scene! I found the scene!
Yes, this does make me cooler than the rest of you.
The cover of the book, by the way, is a bed (or mattress) that’s bondage ready. That cover should be your clue to how high on the heat scale this could be.
Some of the book takes part in my home state of PA. (I was looking for a book with a setting in my hometown for a reading challenge in 2015.)
I read the book three times (in my quest for the secret scene). I enjoyed all three read-throughs. There is a good amount of suspense, making it more like a mystery-thriller, in several of the choices. It’s easy enough to believe that this could be real; that the characters could exist, as could the scenarios. Runaway was as fun to read as every other choose-your-adventure book I’ve picked up. It might be hardcore, it might be softcore, there are some HEA and some not, or it might just be a suspense with some romance… the reader decides.
I read erotica when it is written by someone I know or recommended to me. (This book was a recommendation.) I was pleasantly surprised by how fun this was to read. Perhaps because I was able to decide her fate. The only problem I had was that I didn’t get that secret bonus scene on the first read, so I had to go back! Okay, that’s not a bad problem to have, and speaks more to my stubborn determination. It was a fun journey.
I really enjoyed how the secret kept the tension going in the first bunch of choices. I read this more than once. (I found the bonus content! I'm awesome. Woo hoo!) There's a choice that leads to an ending with a dog owner, and omg ♡ that's my favorite one! I read every "Choose Your Adventure" book my middle school library had (a few decades ago), so imagine my joy to find a grown-up version. And the extra excitement of finding a setting in two PA towns I know! (Though I may have picked the book's Allentown setting more than once...) This was a fun read. Glad I gave it a whirl.