A Decade of Death and Decisions

De: Drew Hayes

Narrado por: Matt Godfrey

In October of 2013, Drew Hayes began posting a story to his website. Written over the thirteen days leading up to Halloween, when each chapter ended the next step was chosen by the readers. Sometimes this led to great discoveries and triumphs, other paths led to Dead Ends, though even in those there was much to be gleaned.

For ten years, this tradition occurred, until in the year of 2022, the readers chose a finale.

This is their story: a tale of deaths and decisions that spanned a decade.

©2024 Andrew Hayes (P)2024 Tantor

A Listen of Laughter and Licorice?

I couldn't think of a second word but there is candy so why not?

This is a fun listen from Drew Hayes, made over 10 years. The story was made originally as a daily serial made from reader's input and still contains a lot of that charm. The choices are included at the end of each chapter, as well as what was chosen, with an occasional puzzle. Be ready to write and pause if you want to try to unscramble the puzzles before continuing as it gives the solution pretty quickly.

The story itself shows 10 years of growth from Drew Hayes. The characters grow. The circumstances become more complicated and more interesting. Jim remains the same. There were several times I would try to guess what choice was going to be used and I was right about 50% of the time but there were some absolutely hilarious choices that I'm glad the readers chose.

Get ready for Halloween horror, humor, and 4th wall breaking. I really enjoyed this throughout the 17 hour trip.

So now you get to choose. Are you going to get this book and have a good time getting ready for Halloween? Or, are you going to skip this and have your life just that much more boring?

Poll:
Get and enjoy the book.
Ignore it and be boring.

Result:
Get and enjoy the book.

Choosing adventure

This is the type of story and writing style that lends itself to groups and friend discussion. Even those chapter by chapter reads where you could suppose the direction potential of each choice Not made. Drew Hayes has quickly become one my my favorite authors and I cannot wait to see more of this kind of writing! Thank you for this Adventure and existential rabbit hole of thoughts while commuting in my mundane existence.

Fantastic story! Great characters. Jim is hilarious

Loved it, not sure how this was written as almost a real time choose your own adventure book, but it's very entertaining. Once again Drew Hayes works his magic!

Even better this way

I wasn’t around for the first few years of the Halloween choose your own death/adventure story as it was written, but it was a highlight of my Octobers for a handful of years. Being able to listen to the story as a whole is fantastic, and I love Jim and the rest of the characters even more than I did the first time around. The choice of narrator for this was 🤌.

Perfect Halloween Series

If you are looking for a book that you can pick up and listen to around Halloween, I highly recommend this title. The story progresses well with the format while still giving 10 unique Halloween adventures stories. Plus it is a Drew Hayes story, which is enough reason alone!

Incredibly fun!

Drew has done it again, love this book and it came out just before Halloween! The adventures just kept going and the side story makes you laugh even more.

I love Drew Hayes.

I love a Drew Hayes. I gave this four out five stars because of the serial format. I did not know about or follow the web series which, I am assuming had a much longer/larger story line and eliciting just Halloween stories left out some of the story. I will always recommend very highly Drew Hayes.

Choose-your-own-adventure

Amusing choose-your-own-adventure Halloween series from the author's website. I don't know if I care enough to finish each and every story but they're an amusing distraction and perfect for October listening.

Did not disappoint

I was a little hesitant because of how it was described, but the choices part was not so often as to be redundant or disruptive to the story.
Just buy it then buy every other book Drew has written you won’t be disappointed.

Great story!

I pretty much loved everything about this book. I thought the story was really interesting, the characters felt like friends by the end, and the voice acting was top notch. I definitely recommend!