I thoroughly enjoyed this “choose your ending” book. Tracey doesn’t have the best choice in men, and she struggles to find her path after being fired by her boss/married “boyfriend”. I read a couple different pathways and loved how the ending differed.
The book is very fast paced which doesn’t allow for a lot of character development but I enjoyed it regardless.

I loved the interactive concept of this book. It kept me reading, I couldn’t put it down.

I thrived in making the choices, putting myself in the shoes of the FMC Tracey. Her relationship with Mitch, and how toxic it was is relatable to me in many ways from personal experience.

Mitch is everything I dislike about men. Selfish and self entitled. Thinks he runs the world, treats Tracey like she’s disposable.

I am so so sorry I hate leaving bad reviews but I genuinely don’t know what I just read. I wasn’t expecting a Pulitzer Prize but this was rough for me.

Can’t recommend.

I really enjoyed making the choices for Tracey and how the choices affected her happily ever after. It took me back to the choose your own adventure books. Definitely would read again!

I was given a digital ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review. Firstly, I loved the notion I’m for the “choose your own adventure”, it was super nostalgic since I used to love those types of books when I was a kid.

To be honest, I really struggled relating to the main character, Tracey. She seems to have pretty awful taste in men - and I didn’t see the character development that I was hoping for at the end. Granted, it was a shorter story, but I did think that it had a lot of potential if Tracey did some more inner (instead of external) work to improve her well-being.

Overall, the setting underwent significant changes within a short period of time. I felt like our protagonist was everywhere, but it could be due to the choices I made. The interactive aspect of the book was enjoyable, but I believe it could have been improved. It seemed that the choices weren't crucial for her life. Most of the time, I wished there was another option because the ones available were not good. The protagonist's usual choices as a main character didn't work for her, and the less interesting ones made the story enjoyable. I think I would have rather read about one of the side characters' stories, and nearly all the love interests seemed so shallow, and were never a right fit for the protagonist. Their role was simply to fill space in a plot that was not really there. Overall, the plot didn’t really go anywhere, making you have to reread the book if you ‘made’ the main character have a disappointing ending, which just felt a bit tiring to me. I found the element of choice in the books to be enjoyable. However one of the great things about books is that you don’t get the choice, you have to read and live with the choices the main character makes; through the cringy, humiliating, crude decisions they make. Generating a complex protagonist that you want to learn more about and push through to understand why and how their choice affects their narrative. I recognise that this is also being created with choices, as we are seeing how our choices for the protagonist impacts the story, nevertheless 'acting god', meant that we felt responsible and in some ways gets rid of some of the enjoyment. Overall, an intriguing idea, I just feel it was not executed well, and ought to have a more complex, lengthy plot. In which we see the central character transformation due to the decisions and in which the love interests actually have personalities.

It's a bit difficult to understand what was happening. It was interactive because you had options, but not quite sure how I felt about it. It's definitely for mature audiences, and will take your imagination for a ride.

I really did not enjoy this, it was not for me. I just couldn’t get into it and found it boring and confusing.

This is the first time I've read a "choose your own adventure." It reminded be Episode and otome games. Not sure if this was really for me.

This reminds me a lot of that "Episode" game where you can chose different experiences for your character, and it was super fun. It was super well written, with short, easy to follow chapters, but the main problem I had was the plot. We follow Tracey and get to decide if she should get her life together or be messy. Tracey was VERY unlikeable, so much so that I found myself dreading having to make decisions for her, because no matter what I chose, she would still be a homewrecker who cares more about cocktails and gossip than human decency. Don't get me wrong, I love cocktails and gossip, but that is Tracey’s entire personality. I read the book multiple times to get all the different endings, and each time, I ended still hating Tracey. It's such a shame, because I think this is such a cool concept, but it would have been SO much better if there were characters you could root for. Besides that, there was also a lot of filler. SO many scenes of her running or at the gym or doing mundane tasks that don't add to the story at all. Don't get me wrong, they were super well written, I just feel like this author's amazing writing skills were wasted on the storyline.

I have never read a “choose your own path” story so this was interesting! I’m not sure exactly how many paths there are, but I did end up reading it again twice. I chose different paths each time and did end up with two totally different endings.

I thought the title of Kismet meaning fate/destiny while allowing the reader to choose their own path was really clever.

This could end up being a really spicy read for some, or not at all for others depending on the path chosen.

There were a few grammatical errors throughout the book, but overall I really enjoyed picking my own choices!

Thank you NetGalley and Gab Tuls!

I picked up this book because I liked the idea of the 'choose-your-own-adventure' format, and wanted to see how it would fit in a less typical genre. The elements of allowing the reader to choose what the character does at the crossroads is fun and interactive. And of course, brings the re-reading factor to the novel, so readers will feel perhaps that they have gotten more for their money! I didn't really like Tracey, the character involved, as I feel she could use some more character development, which is the pitfall perhaps with having multiple plot lines to deal with; it's harder to get to know a character as their decisions change depending on how you read it, but this was a fun read none the less!

I thought this was such a unique premise I just had to read it! Went through twice in order to end on the "happy ending", and I was pleasantly surprised! Adventurous and hot, this novella is everything you'd expect from a choose-your-own romance.

This book was so fun! I loved Episode as a teenager and this brought me back to my love of choosing the character's fate! I didn't know I needed an erotic adult, choose your own story until now, and I'm so hoping this becomes the new normal! It was so fun getting to help Tracey throughout the book, I read through two paths so far and had so much fun seeing what the outcome was for each one! I definitely recommend this book for those of you who are secret Episode lovers! Thank you Netgalley for the ARC in exchange for my honest opinion!

This was a fun idea that actually worked really well on kindle! Lots of fun choices throughout, the story in between those choices was good but I didn’t overly like the main character sadly, other than that it was an entertaining read!

OMG! I totally forgot how fun the books of my childhood were when you got to pick how the story went. You read a few chapters then you get to choose what path the main character makes. The author gives you two choices and then you click the link (if reading eBook, otherwise it will tell you the page number to turn to) to hop to the path you want to take and you read until the next choice presents itself. It is so fun to feel like you are a part of the main character making choices for her. It also allows you to read the book multiple times and have different results as you make different choices. The main character is at a crossroads and needs to make better life choices as the book starts out with her in the midst of a horrible path that she willingly led herself down. You get to choose whether she makes better choices or continues down the path of self-destruction. It's a short story so you don't get a ton of depth in the characters, but the fun of making choices for the character balances that out in my opinion. It isn't going to hit any classic literature lists or outstanding reads (5 stars in my opinion), but it is going to be on my list of fun short stories to read! It's better than just good (3 stars in my opinion) as it adds the fun factor of choosing how the story progresses, so I'd give it a solid 3.5 stars and with the 5-star rating that rounds up to 4 stars.

Interesting concept as a choose your own adventure, but at the end of the day I just didn't connect with any of the characters.

Kismet by Gab Tuls was a reawakening of my love for the choose-your-own-adventure novel. I never considered how fun that format would be for a romance story! It really takes away some of the frustration you might feel with a main character that frustratingly chooses an option you really wish they wouldn't.

I read through a few different paths for this story and actually found myself loving a sad ending just as much as a happy one. Where a happy ending is a comfortable and expected one in the romance genre, allowing the main character to end up without romance pushed the story into something more reflective and profound.

There's also a bigger message within the writing about how many paths we take end up at the same destination, and how maybe mistakes aren't as much an end to our path as we might think.

I recommend it for anyone who's looking for a bit more control in what surrounds them, meanwhile I'll be reading!