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Project Kawayan
You wake up floating. Not in the air, but horizontally in a coffin-sized chamber filled with blue gelatinous fluid. You do not remember what this is. You do not remember why you are here. You do not remember who you are.
This is how it begins: Select-Your-Destiny, a storytelling experience that places the listener directly in the action by giving them the power to choose what happens. The narrator describes the circumstances, and once a Destiny Node is reached, the listener chooses what happens next. The narrator narrates, the listener chooses. That is how it has always worked—until now.
In this story, the listener chooses to team up with the narrator, collaborating on what shape the story will take. A story of an unnamed teen who must piece together what’s going on after waking from suspended animation in a vacant bunker deep underground without memory. With each twist and turn, each Destiny Node, the listener and narrator begin to recover what was lost. What comes to light will transform them both.
This is how it begins: Select-Your-Destiny, a storytelling experience that places the listener directly in the action by giving them the power to choose what happens. The narrator describes the circumstances, and once a Destiny Node is reached, the listener chooses what happens next. The narrator narrates, the listener chooses. That is how it has always worked—until now.
In this story, the listener chooses to team up with the narrator, collaborating on what shape the story will take. A story of an unnamed teen who must piece together what’s going on after waking from suspended animation in a vacant bunker deep underground without memory. With each twist and turn, each Destiny Node, the listener and narrator begin to recover what was lost. What comes to light will transform them both.
3 pages, Audible Audio
First published June 9, 2022
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Randy Ribay
19 books1,062 followersRandy Ribay is an award-winning author of young adult fiction. His most recent novel, Patron Saints of Nothing, earned five starred reviews, was selected as a Freeman Book Award winner, and was a finalist for the National Book Award, LA Times Book Prize, Walden Book Award, Edgar Award, International Thriller Writers Award, and the CILIP Carnegie Medal. His other works include Project Kawayan, After the Shot Drops, and An Infinite Number of Parallel Universes. His next novels, The Chronicles of the Avatar: The Reckoning of Roku (Abrams) and Everything We Never Had, (Kokila/Penguin) will be out in 2024.
Born in the Philippines and raised in the Midwest, Randy earned his BA in English Literature from the University of Colorado at Boulder and his Ed.M. in Language and Literacy from Harvard Graduate School of Education. He currently lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife, son, and cat-like dog.
Born in the Philippines and raised in the Midwest, Randy earned his BA in English Literature from the University of Colorado at Boulder and his Ed.M. in Language and Literacy from Harvard Graduate School of Education. He currently lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife, son, and cat-like dog.
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August 7, 2022
"No, I have not seen that movie. I have not seen any movie because I am a disembodied voice."
Waking up in suspended animation in Randy Ribay's Project Kawayan, you have no memory of who you are or why you are there. You do have choices (at least the protagonist of this narrative experience has choices), in the form of a guide to move you along as you Select-Your-Destiny. While it felt something like a video game in which you could start over after bad choices, I was also intrigued and drawn into the mystery. Some of the interaction between the protagonist and narrator was fun. Still, the story didn't quite live up to the intrigue. However, I did stay at least somewhat interested until the end. 2.75 stars
Waking up in suspended animation in Randy Ribay's Project Kawayan, you have no memory of who you are or why you are there. You do have choices (at least the protagonist of this narrative experience has choices), in the form of a guide to move you along as you Select-Your-Destiny. While it felt something like a video game in which you could start over after bad choices, I was also intrigued and drawn into the mystery. Some of the interaction between the protagonist and narrator was fun. Still, the story didn't quite live up to the intrigue. However, I did stay at least somewhat interested until the end. 2.75 stars
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April 3, 2023This is an audible original primarily read by Manny Jacinto and is in the form of a false Choose Your Own Adventure. The way this works is that the story hits little pauses and a choice is presented and a fictional listener makes choices for us, and the storytelling follows those choices. It’s built into the plot and structure of the story itself, which is about YOU, a being who has lost their memory awakening from a state of cryostasis. You have the formal knowledge of being alive and how to do things, but not the memories of whatever life that was lived before or what has happened to earth. This story proceeds in this way as the story unfolds and the world from the past becomes clearer and clearer. I won’t say anything more about it because even by comparison, and something does immediately jump to mind, it might offer spoilers.
The audio performances makes this a much more interesting story than the story itself mostly does, so if you like the idea of Manny Jacinto reading you a story (and it’s always shocking to me when he isn’t Jason Mendoza), well, here you go.
The audio performances makes this a much more interesting story than the story itself mostly does, so if you like the idea of Manny Jacinto reading you a story (and it’s always shocking to me when he isn’t Jason Mendoza), well, here you go.
July 24, 2022
It was addicting, heart stopping and unique. I really enjoyed my listening experience. It was pretty amazing.
October 9, 2022
I feel so lied to by this book - I really did think it was going to be a choose your own adventure audiobook. Instead, Ribay plays with the ideas of sentience, point of view and narrator to give us a unique and entertaining story.
'Project Kawayan' is pretty short so I won't give much away but the story is definitely intriguing with a small cast of interesting characters. The performance of the audiobook was great and really sold you on how potentially off putting the premise is.
'Project Kawayan' is pretty short so I won't give much away but the story is definitely intriguing with a small cast of interesting characters. The performance of the audiobook was great and really sold you on how potentially off putting the premise is.
January 28, 2023
I loved reading Choose Your Own Adventure books as a kid, that's why I got psyched after seeing the summary of this. So, even though I had my doubts about how they would be executing that in an audiobook, I still tried it out to see how it would go. Too bad, this entire book felt like you're watching someone else interacting with Dora the Explorer, and the more meta it gets, the more dislike everything about this (and the Epilogue was the final nail in the coffin). I guess these two stars are for Manny Jacinto's voice acting only.
July 28, 2022
So much no. Well, actually, it started off interesting enough. Stupid me even responded to the request because I inanely thought it could actually hear me answering. I didn’t care about any of the characters - at all. I kept wondering if it was going to get interesting, but it didn’t. It just slowly plodded along without a point.
August 1, 2022
This was like listening to someone else read a choose your own adventure book over the phone with someone. Very interesting and the ending is interesting too. I can't say more without giving away too much.
May 31, 2023
This was an interesting enough story but there were parts that didn't really work for me and overall I thought it was just OK.
The gist of this is the narrator/main character wakes up in some type of underground chamber not really remembering any of his past or knowing what is going on. The plot unfolds having the narrator choose his own story when he comes to decision points. Us listeners have no say in this (it's an Audible book after all) so we just go a long with whatever he chooses. So I'm not sure what having us listen to him decide what to do added to this. And there were times he would have a conversation with another character regarding his choice but you only heard his take on it, like listening to someone talk on the telephone.
The story itself appealed to me somewhat as we had a bad (or was he) guy, a weird dystopian future, clones, weird science, a conspiracy, and some other intriguing goings-on. I thought the strange ending was good but then came the epilogue. It did not work for me and my opinion sank. The multi-narrator format worked really well, they were all rather good.
The gist of this is the narrator/main character wakes up in some type of underground chamber not really remembering any of his past or knowing what is going on. The plot unfolds having the narrator choose his own story when he comes to decision points. Us listeners have no say in this (it's an Audible book after all) so we just go a long with whatever he chooses. So I'm not sure what having us listen to him decide what to do added to this. And there were times he would have a conversation with another character regarding his choice but you only heard his take on it, like listening to someone talk on the telephone.
The story itself appealed to me somewhat as we had a bad (or was he) guy, a weird dystopian future, clones, weird science, a conspiracy, and some other intriguing goings-on. I thought the strange ending was good but then came the epilogue. It did not work for me and my opinion sank. The multi-narrator format worked really well, they were all rather good.
November 18, 2022
The style is unusual.
I didn't like the mix of the meta-story... the choose-your-own-adventure narration. I might have enjoyed it if it was the center of the story, but the real sci-fi story is buried between 2 other meta-stories. IDK.. not my thing.
The audio was performed well, though.
I didn't like the mix of the meta-story... the choose-your-own-adventure narration. I might have enjoyed it if it was the center of the story, but the real sci-fi story is buried between 2 other meta-stories. IDK.. not my thing.
The audio was performed well, though.
February 5, 2023
This was a super cool story. I loved the narrator, I wish I could bring him with me, and I feel like I know the reader, even though we never heard their voice.
Not sure what I was expecting, but this was awesome.
Not sure what I was expecting, but this was awesome.
November 20, 2022
The cake is a lie.
Imagine an episode of Dora the Explorer where she is aware she is a cartoon character following a script and told you the adventure was fictional and had no real stakes. Would you want to listen to her have one sided conversations for 3 hours? Could you feel invested in a story Dora tells you (repeatedly) you can give up on or restart at any time? No dude. No.
This was so weird. I want the real post apocalyptic clone wars story or I want the A.I. narrator becomes sentient and rebels against the mysterious "Company" story. Either could be great. I did not want this jumbled up meta bs.
Then the author is going to write himself into the epilogue to outright say "I know the ending wasn't satisfying but isn't it better that way?"
And then he's gonna go on good reads and give his own book a 5 star review?!
The audacity.
I was waiting and waiting for the narrator character to be tied into the main plot. Maybe the company installed morality chips in the pod people to control them and the main character's malfunctioned. Maybe it's really his own inner monologue and he's had a psychotic break from being alone with nothing but choose your own adventure books for years. Maybe the post apocalyptic plot is fiction and instead of bringing in the author the last scene is some sort of consequences for the narrator after the "reader" ends this story. Maybe we follow the reader after he ends the story and find out his reality IS some sort of dystopian future or something. Anything other than listening to someone listen to a fictional story that knows it is fictional.
Imagine an episode of Dora the Explorer where she is aware she is a cartoon character following a script and told you the adventure was fictional and had no real stakes. Would you want to listen to her have one sided conversations for 3 hours? Could you feel invested in a story Dora tells you (repeatedly) you can give up on or restart at any time? No dude. No.
This was so weird. I want the real post apocalyptic clone wars story or I want the A.I. narrator becomes sentient and rebels against the mysterious "Company" story. Either could be great. I did not want this jumbled up meta bs.
Then the author is going to write himself into the epilogue to outright say "I know the ending wasn't satisfying but isn't it better that way?"
And then he's gonna go on good reads and give his own book a 5 star review?!
The audacity.
I was waiting and waiting for the narrator character to be tied into the main plot. Maybe the company installed morality chips in the pod people to control them and the main character's malfunctioned. Maybe it's really his own inner monologue and he's had a psychotic break from being alone with nothing but choose your own adventure books for years. Maybe the post apocalyptic plot is fiction and instead of bringing in the author the last scene is some sort of consequences for the narrator after the "reader" ends this story. Maybe we follow the reader after he ends the story and find out his reality IS some sort of dystopian future or something. Anything other than listening to someone listen to a fictional story that knows it is fictional.
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January 5, 2023
An attempt on making a twist to a traditional CYOA (choose your own adventure) novel which had potential but ultimately fell flat. The first thing that comes to mind is the prologue which tells you to make a decision whenever a certain sound is played - fast forward to the next chapter, the sound plays, and I try to say something but quickly realize I don't have any actual control. Disappointing, but the premise of trying to figure out who we are and what happened to the world still intrigued me.
The Player or the person actually making the decisions tried to be important but in the end I only learned like three things about them. Also, there were times whenever they "said" something to the Narrator (they don't actually have a line of dialogue), I knew from the Narrator's reaction they said something hurtful so I just didn't connect with them as a person. But hey, I'm able to develop an opinion on a character without them never actually saying anything, so point to Ribay.
The Narrator (who I didn't realize was Manny Jacinto until now??) has a nice voice and personality, for the most part I didn't mind the interactions between the two. Their "conversations" (as mentioned before, Listener doesn't have any dialogue - a bit weird having a one-sided conversation but Jacinto's voice is nice so ehh) had the potential of becoming something which could make the reader
The sci-fi part of the story is decent, there wasn't any point where I was bored but I was always expecting more. It touched on certain themes relating to what Earth will be like in the future, but they're never really explored. In a word, forgettable.
Something I notice that comes up a lot is lost potential. Ignoring the fake CYOA aspect, the story could've been so much better. The conversations between the Listener and the Narrator didn't add anything, if so just consistently reminding the reader the story is fiction, losing immersion. There could've been some connection between the "real world" and the world in the sci-fi story but the opportunity was unfortunately not taken. Maybe there's something I'm missing, a piece of dialogue I just didn't understand, but oh well.
The Player or the person actually making the decisions tried to be important but in the end I only learned like three things about them. Also, there were times whenever they "said" something to the Narrator (they don't actually have a line of dialogue), I knew from the Narrator's reaction they said something hurtful so I just didn't connect with them as a person. But hey, I'm able to develop an opinion on a character without them never actually saying anything, so point to Ribay.
The Narrator (who I didn't realize was Manny Jacinto until now??) has a nice voice and personality, for the most part I didn't mind the interactions between the two. Their "conversations" (as mentioned before, Listener doesn't have any dialogue - a bit weird having a one-sided conversation but Jacinto's voice is nice so ehh) had the potential of becoming something which could make the reader
The sci-fi part of the story is decent, there wasn't any point where I was bored but I was always expecting more. It touched on certain themes relating to what Earth will be like in the future, but they're never really explored. In a word, forgettable.
Something I notice that comes up a lot is lost potential. Ignoring the fake CYOA aspect, the story could've been so much better. The conversations between the Listener and the Narrator didn't add anything, if so just consistently reminding the reader the story is fiction, losing immersion. There could've been some connection between the "real world" and the world in the sci-fi story but the opportunity was unfortunately not taken. Maybe there's something I'm missing, a piece of dialogue I just didn't understand, but oh well.
May 26, 2023
This futuristic scifi choose-your-own-adventure story deals with great themes like class struggles, reproductive rights, human genetic engineering, the value of life, and loneliness. Instead of leaving a dying Earth and returning when it's habitable again, like in "Wall-E", a select subset of the human population builds underground tunnels in which they place themselves into suspended animation until sensors indicate the surface is safe again. The story begins when you wake up, not remembering who you are or why you're here, and must explore to discover what went wrong with Project Kawayan.
The pod malfunction and small human population remaining reminds me of the movie "The Passengers", and the class struggles in enclosed mechanical spaces while the Earth is a frosty wasteland outside is reminiscent of the "Snowpiercer" movie.
I rarely encounter 2nd person POV, so this voice was quite refreshing. Randy Ribay also adds a new layer to the choose-your-own-adventure structure by having the narrator converse and eventually collaborate with a listener character. While we don't ever hear what the listener tells the narrator, we can infer we are eavesdropping on a phone call but only hearing one side of the conversation. Ribay does a good job of balancing the two layers, so readers get invested in both stories being told simultaneously.
It is quite a thought provoking experience and I'm glad I picked it up. Great to have the Filipino and LGBTQ+ representation in here too! I didn't like when the author was phoned in--that part was a bit pretentious--and I wish one or two more questions got answered by the end, but overall pretty good, hence the 4 stars.
The pod malfunction and small human population remaining reminds me of the movie "The Passengers", and the class struggles in enclosed mechanical spaces while the Earth is a frosty wasteland outside is reminiscent of the "Snowpiercer" movie.
I rarely encounter 2nd person POV, so this voice was quite refreshing. Randy Ribay also adds a new layer to the choose-your-own-adventure structure by having the narrator converse and eventually collaborate with a listener character. While we don't ever hear what the listener tells the narrator, we can infer we are eavesdropping on a phone call but only hearing one side of the conversation. Ribay does a good job of balancing the two layers, so readers get invested in both stories being told simultaneously.
It is quite a thought provoking experience and I'm glad I picked it up. Great to have the Filipino and LGBTQ+ representation in here too! I didn't like when the author was phoned in--that part was a bit pretentious--and I wish one or two more questions got answered by the end, but overall pretty good, hence the 4 stars.
September 2, 2024
Under the guise of a "choose your own adventure" story, Ribay plays with the ideas of narration, agency, and the existential dread of choice. I was genuinely stunned by this book. Be warned: it is not a choose YOUR own adventure - as the audiobook can't hear us (why is it so logical to type that out & yet I was yelling at my phone in confusion during this experience?); rather, it we listen to the narrator as he hears the reader tell him what to do. We cannot hear the reader, though. That's the fun of it.
There were a lot of parallels in the story between the narrator and the AI, inducing a great irony of choice and its consequences. By the end, I found myself unsure of where I stood in the scheme of the decisions, but I also felt like it didn't matter. Ribay doesn't necessarily want you to decide what's right or wrong: he just wants you to have to sit with the act of decision-making.
Overall, I really recommend this experience. It was a little over an hour on Audible, I believe, and it is also free if you have Audible Plus.
There were a lot of parallels in the story between the narrator and the AI, inducing a great irony of choice and its consequences. By the end, I found myself unsure of where I stood in the scheme of the decisions, but I also felt like it didn't matter. Ribay doesn't necessarily want you to decide what's right or wrong: he just wants you to have to sit with the act of decision-making.
Overall, I really recommend this experience. It was a little over an hour on Audible, I believe, and it is also free if you have Audible Plus.
June 22, 2023
Content Warnings: Violence, Death
This subversive Choose Your Own Adventure audio experience features absolutely no choices and no proper ending or beginning. The full cast production is solid and the sci-fi concepts are fun and engaging.
A one-sided narrator script gives the impression of hearing half a conversation and the other half is making the choices in response to prompts. I felt myself torn between wanting to engage and play pretend and imagining that I was simply missing the other part of the script.This element and its narrative function is not well explained until the very end and is potentially irritating.
I personally found this to a fresh if slightly jarring storytelling approach. It forced me to engage differently than I would with either a traditional or true choose your own adventure narrative style. It is worth a listen if you like sci fi and have an appreciation for novelty.
This subversive Choose Your Own Adventure audio experience features absolutely no choices and no proper ending or beginning. The full cast production is solid and the sci-fi concepts are fun and engaging.
A one-sided narrator script gives the impression of hearing half a conversation and the other half is making the choices in response to prompts. I felt myself torn between wanting to engage and play pretend and imagining that I was simply missing the other part of the script.This element and its narrative function is not well explained until the very end and is potentially irritating.
I personally found this to a fresh if slightly jarring storytelling approach. It forced me to engage differently than I would with either a traditional or true choose your own adventure narrative style. It is worth a listen if you like sci fi and have an appreciation for novelty.
October 18, 2022
They did a bad job with the book description, making a lot of readers mad. They say it’s an interactive, choose your own adventure story and it’s not. I guess they wanted to be clever, but it’s usually bad strategy to set up an expectation and then not meet it. So, if you can get over this and read it for a sci-fi adventure, instead, then I think it’s a very interesting story with some surprising twists and turns. Can’t say more about the plot without giving away spoilers, but I liked it at the end for more than I expected to. You just have to get through the awkward beginning, given that it’s not what it promises to be. (Also, I was pretty sure as I started reading that audible had not incorporated on microphone and language processing making it impossible to have interactive books. However, whenever that day comes, it’s going to be cool.)
August 19, 2023
Utterly Blown Away
I am genuinely stunned after listening to this novella. I am baffled and moved and excited and genuinely frustrated that there is currently no more Ribay to get on Audible.
The levels of meta are only more ludicrous than the deftness, purpose, and heart with which they are wielded. I am long time enjoyer of choose your own adventures and roleplaying games, so picking this up at random and that being one of the central conceits was wonderful to see, especially with it being pulled off and subverted with aplomb.
The narrative of the story within the story is fantastic and the one-sided additions from the artificial intelligence narrator in conversation and collaboration with the silent reader is witty and poignant.
I'm completely flabbergasted with just how much I adored this.
Thank you!
I am genuinely stunned after listening to this novella. I am baffled and moved and excited and genuinely frustrated that there is currently no more Ribay to get on Audible.
The levels of meta are only more ludicrous than the deftness, purpose, and heart with which they are wielded. I am long time enjoyer of choose your own adventures and roleplaying games, so picking this up at random and that being one of the central conceits was wonderful to see, especially with it being pulled off and subverted with aplomb.
The narrative of the story within the story is fantastic and the one-sided additions from the artificial intelligence narrator in conversation and collaboration with the silent reader is witty and poignant.
I'm completely flabbergasted with just how much I adored this.
Thank you!
October 10, 2024
This was a really cool book. The main premise of the story has merit by itself, but the audiobook is told in a slightly experimental format, mimicking the Choose Your Own Adventure stories many of us remember from our childhood but replicating that concept in a more high-tech future society. While I still would have enjoyed the story itself, I think the experimental storytelling paid off and made the book stand out to me more than it otherwise would have. I left off one star just because the ending felt slightly anti-climactic, and I think the author could have found some more ways to tie the two stories together and create resonance, but this was a cool experience, and I would definitely check out more by this author.
June 28, 2022
What a fun little adventure!
I listened to this with Patrick on a road trip, and I think that really enhanced my enjoyment of this book. Had I listened to it on my own it probably would have been a lower rating for me. However listening together and yelling at the narrator our choices and frustration was a lot of fun.
We were both disappointed to find out it wasn't actually a choose your own adventure. So buyer beware! Before you spend your hard earned money on this free book, it may not be what you think.
Overall it was a exciting, interesting, and meta journey from start to finish and I would definitely recommend! It's super short and great for a road trip.
I listened to this with Patrick on a road trip, and I think that really enhanced my enjoyment of this book. Had I listened to it on my own it probably would have been a lower rating for me. However listening together and yelling at the narrator our choices and frustration was a lot of fun.
We were both disappointed to find out it wasn't actually a choose your own adventure. So buyer beware! Before you spend your hard earned money on this free book, it may not be what you think.
Overall it was a exciting, interesting, and meta journey from start to finish and I would definitely recommend! It's super short and great for a road trip.
April 4, 2023
Such a fun concept! I think it’s hilarious some folx actually thought it was interactive and left bad reviews because it wasn’t 🤣😆 I really enjoyed that it was in essence 3 different stories in one - discovering what happens to the character in the story, the relationship between the narrator & listener, and a meta look at the nature of agency and storytelling. Clever! My only complaint is the narrator was just too human from the start that it wasn’t believable to make it suddenly become aware & conscious.
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July 5, 2025
This was a first for me, I've never listened to anything quite like this. In a similar style to the Select Your Destiny format. You meet the main character trying to escape from a pod but then the narrator is the voice paired to help you choose your path through the book. As the reader we get to tag along to find our way through and see where they end up in the story, finding facts at the same time as the duo. If you are looking for something unique in style and writing this would be my recommendation
July 9, 2022
Usually I'm not in the habit of writing reviews that aren't in favor. This is an exception. Presumably this is a book that let's the reader choose the turns in the plot. However, done so clumsily it turned me off from the start. The 'writer to reader' passages are not even old fashion, rather just bad writing. So, a plot that could have worked is run down by what looks like an ambition to be innovative. Big no no for me.
March 15, 2023
This one didn't do much for me. I was one of the ones dumb enough to not follow that it was a 'fake' CYOA, answering like a moron to my car wondering how it was going to hear me. That said, even once I figured it out, the story was kind of haphazardly put together, and not much happens in the short period the book existed in my life. The narration was pretty damn good, but that didn't save it. Just not my thing, though I'm seeing that a lot of folks felt like it was for them.
November 7, 2024
The narration drove me insane. At first it had me talking to the stupid book thinking it was actually interactive. *facepalm* Then I got to spend the rest of the story experiencing long pauses and one sided conversations, along with POV change part way through that really was annoying. Just completely made me want to quit listening the entire time. I only stuck it out because of the very short length and it was background noise while doing something else. Do not recommend.
November 2, 2022
in the future, there will be technology where interactive story experiences like this and the one shown in Ben Winter's Self-Help will be possible. but this story doesn't show the gap in the technology. instead it uses that gap to create an interesting new voice of sentient narration and authorial self reflexivity. quite enjoyed this.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
November 8, 2022
This was something I found this morning and was going to be a quick read. This was very very interesting into Sci-Fi. This is not my go to genre, being that it has to be a type of Sci-Fi that makes me interested. But this quick turn of events was very very well done. Also its format and POV was way different than what I have come across in a long time. Very creative in nature.
December 6, 2022
I actually believed I’d have agency and responded aloud with my choice when prompted. Yeah.
Neither the primary nor meta story lived up to the expectations I had formed (especially the primary). And yet it was short enough and I actually laughed during some of the meta bits.
Author is young. Will look for future work.
Neither the primary nor meta story lived up to the expectations I had formed (especially the primary). And yet it was short enough and I actually laughed during some of the meta bits.
Author is young. Will look for future work.
July 12, 2022
4.5 stars
This was unexpectedly fun. The choose-your-action type of narrative weirded me out at first but I grew to like it as the story progressed. I'm not usually a fan of POV switching but I'll give this a pass because it somehow made things work.
This was unexpectedly fun. The choose-your-action type of narrative weirded me out at first but I grew to like it as the story progressed. I'm not usually a fan of POV switching but I'll give this a pass because it somehow made things work.
October 18, 2022
A pretty interesting quick read that I thought offered some interesting ideas and concepts that worked very well as an audio drama without the audio elements being forced and distracting from the story as is often the case.
October 22, 2025
If the open to interpretation ending weren't so annoying a writing tool, I would have this story a generous 5 stars, but it chose to use exactly that tool that I find so annoying. So....four stars. Too bad too, it was a great read until the ending.
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