IFReviewed by
Emily Short on 2006-08-01 08:35
Cheese Rating: Stilton out of a possible Brie
Cheese Rating: Florid out of a possible Painfully Excessive
Gratuitous Reference to Ducks: QUACK
Created with Jon Ingold's Adventure Book, CYOR offers the reader
the opportunity to steer its strangely-fated heroine through the various twists
and turns of Love. As sheer coincidence would have it, a nontrivial percentage
of these twists are in some way associated with cheeses. But I'm sure that's
entirely accidental. To proceed:
As might be supposed to befit a choose your own romance, this work is
whimsical and light; its chiefest grace is the delightsome prose, which blends
to a nicety the modest mannerisms of speech appropriate to a refined lady with
the strength of feeling that will inevitably engender itself in the breast-- er,
upper torso-- of a Person of Romantic Temperament. To say more of the plot would
be to reveal overmuch, if plot it may accurately be said to have; for like many
of its ilk, the Choose Your Own Romance is narratively wayward and frolicsome.
In short, a highly entertaining piece. This will scarcely surprise those
familiar with Mr. Dyte's previous work in the field of parody (Sycamora
Tree, Pick Up the Phone Booth And Aisle [for the concept of
which, at least, he is to be blamed, even if other rash parties partook of its
implementation]).
