A new digital novel will let readers choose how they want the story to end.
In a radical departure from literary tradition, author Caroline Smailes’s latest work 99 Reasons Why has a choice of 11 possible endings. Readers’ tastes and mood will influence the outcome, as well as their answers to a series of multiple choice questions on colours, numbers and objects. Smailes came up with the idea – reminiscent of the multiple endings in the 1992 comedy Wayne's World – after learning that some readers felt her two previous novels finished too gloomily. Her latest offering, a 99-chapter family drama about obsession, aims to cater for the tastes of all readers by including endings ranging from a “happily ever after” to a grisly Tarantino-style finale. Smailes told The Independent: "Different readers will have different reactions, interpretations and feelings about the story, depending on which ending they choose.
A new digital novel will let readers choose how they want the story to end.
In a radical departure from literary tradition, author Caroline Smailes’s latest work 99 Reasons Why has a choice of 11 possible endings.
Readers’ tastes and mood will influence the outcome, as well as their answers to a series of multiple choice questions on colours, numbers and objects.
Smailes came up with the idea – reminiscent of the multiple endings in the 1992 comedy Wayne's World – after learning that some readers felt her two previous novels finished too gloomily.
Her latest offering, a 99-chapter family drama about obsession, aims to cater for the tastes of all readers by including endings ranging from a “happily ever after” to a grisly Tarantino-style finale.
Smailes told The Independent: "Different readers will have different reactions, interpretations and feelings about the story, depending on which ending they choose.
