Even though Dana Schwartz is quite young, she has lived more lives than a cat. This book definitely encourages the readers to put themselves out there. Not every disaster should have a disastrous outcome.

I'd been looking forward to this one for aaaaages, so I was a little disappointed I didn't love it quite so much as I'd hoped I would. It wasn't bad, perse, it just didn't have that evocative note I was hoping for? Told mostly linearly, this read very much as a retelling of Dana's life & lacked the level of insight I had really been hoping to see/that she shows in her online commentary.

I am a fan of Dana Schwartz from Twitter. Her ability to encapsulate the modern woman's thoughts about current events in 280 characters is what drew me to read her choose your own adventure memoir. Cleverly written and structured, hilarious and raw, Schwartz has turned the concept of memoir on its head in a refreshing, inventive way to match the society we're living in now. Highly recommend

I really appreciate what the author has done with this book, combining super personal stories with a digestible, fun and familiar online quiz format. Some of these stories will super hard-hitting, despite, or maybe because of the conversational way in which they're written. But I had a hard time with the formatting of this book. I don't know if it was a consequence of reading it via e-galley (where the "turn to this page" numbers all read 0 and so I could not turn to a page) versus a physical copy where I could easily flip back and forth. But because this book is not meant to be read front to back, and the only way I could read the book via e-galley was front to back, this one lost a little bit of its luster for me.

I really enjoyed this book. It was very well written and held my attention. The format was a new take on the choose your own adventure stories, and it definitely worked. I kind of wanted to know which disaster she ended up choosing in real life.

It's known by now that I'm a fan of memoirs, given that I'm easily swept up in the juicy secrets of someone’s thoughts and secrets without having to reciprocate; it's bliss for my nosy self. With this new release part-memoir, part-VERY long personality test, Choose Your Own Disaster is a manifesto about the millennial experience and modern feminism and how the easy advice of “you can be anything you want!” is actually pretty fucking difficult when there are so many possible versions of yourself it seems like you could be. Dana has no idea who she is, but at least she knows she’s a Carrie, a Ravenclaw, a Raphael, a Belle, a former emo kid, a Twitter addict, and a millennial just trying her best.

I received a free copy of Choose Your Own Disaster courtesy of Netgalley and Grand Central Publishing in exchange for an honest review.

I unfortunately did not finish Choose Your Own Disaster. I read half of it when I made the decision that it was not for me. I love the idea of Choose Your Own Disaster, an honest, comedic, remembering of the author's twenty something experiences. I struggled with the format of the book. It was written like an online quiz, which I can appreciate. But I struggled to see past the format to get to the depth of the stories. I struggled relating and connecting to the author because of the format.

Dana Schwartz examines her twenties with brutally honest humor using a parody style of the internet quiz. She shares relatable stories about disordered eating, dating the wrong men, mediocre dates, and sexual assault. Her self awareness, and ability to turn life’s tragedies into comedy is what made this a 5 Star memoir.

Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for a free copy of this ebook.