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Build Your Own Christmas Movie Romance: Pick Your Plot, Meet Your Man, and Create the Holiday Love Story of a Lifetime Kindle Edition

by Riane Konc (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.0 out of 5 stars 117 ratings

Create the Christmas romance of your dreams, scene by scene, twist by charmingly predictable twist—each choice is yours.

Slip on your favorite Christmas sweater, cozy up to a crackling fire, sip some spiced eggnog, and prepare to experience the ultimate holiday love story. But instead of watching it on some cheesy cable channel, open this book and put yourself in the director’s chair.

First, decide your heroine’s problem. Was she just fired from her big city business job? Avoiding going home for Christmas? Or did she just realize the man who proposed to her maybe isn't Mr. Right? Then it's time to meet the man--should your heroine end up with the big city business exec, the small town hunk or someone totally unexpected (but still hunky)? Each choice will take you down a totally different path that all somehow end up making for a perfect made-for-TV romance.

Will your Christmas activity montage include baking cookies, walking through a holiday festival, or skating on a picturesque frozen lake? Will you choose to include a generically bearded old man who perhaps could maybe be Santa Claus? Choice by hilarious choice, you’ll make your way closer and closer to the big payoff--the picture perfect, most romantic final kiss ever.

And when you’ve savored that last bit of snowy, romantic goodness, don’t be glum. Turn back to page one and start a new love story. With hundreds of possible stories the happily-ever-afters never stop happening.

Praise for Build Your Own Christmas Movie Romance

“The choose-your-own-adventure-style parody features all the best tropes and treats of made-for-TV holiday specials.” —Chicago Reader

“If you’re searching for the perfect gift for your Hallmark holiday film loving BFF (or just shopping for yourself, no shame), Riane Konc’s new book, Build Your Own Christmas Movie Romance, is the present you’ve been waiting for.” —Bustle

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  4. Publication date
    October 22, 2019
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"The choose-your-own-adventure-style parody features all the best tropes and treats of made-for-TV holiday specials." (Chicago Reader)

"If you're searching for the perfect gift for your Hallmark holiday film loving BFF (or just shopping for yourself, no shame), Riane Konc's new book, Build Your Own Christmas Movie Romance, is the present you've been waiting for." (Bustle)

About the Author

Riane Konc is a frequent contributor to The New Yorker who, along with teaching at Second City, has also written humor for the New York Times, McSweeney's, Mad Magazine, Parents Magazine, Paste, National Lampoon, American Bystander, Reductress, Cafe, The Rumpus' Funny Women, and more.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07VFZJXDB
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Ulysses Press (October 22, 2019)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ October 22, 2019
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 12.8 MB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 147 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.0 out of 5 stars 117 ratings

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Customers find the book hilarious, describing it as laugh-out-loud funny and fun to pick up again and again. They appreciate it as a great Christmas present. The book's content receives positive feedback, with one customer noting its festive cover.

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15 customers mention "Humor"15 positive0 negative

Customers find the book hilarious, describing it as a laugh-out-loud funny read by one of the funniest writers today.

"...This book is laugh-out-loud funny! The author has an off the wall sense of humor, and the puns were hilarious...." Read more

"...Riane is one of the funniest writers today and displays her humor in this book perfectly...." Read more

"...I felt the story was kind of cute and sappy, predictable too." Read more

"...movie per se, but the tropes were so familiar that her twists on them were hilarious. This would be a great gift (or one you give yourself...)" Read more

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Customers find the book makes a great Christmas present.

"...This is such a good book that it would make a great secret Santa gift, especially if you don't know the person because everyone is bound to love..." Read more

"...This would be a great gift (or one you give yourself...)" Read more

"Such a fun book. So funny and a great gift. I am big city business girl, but I fell for Candy Falls too!..." Read more

"...Konc is a brilliant writer. This would make a great gift." Read more

3 customers mention "Book content"3 positive0 negative

Customers enjoy the book's content, with one describing it as charming and festive.

"...containing this long-awaited book to find that, not only was the cover festive, the inside was as well...." Read more

"I’m halfway through and it’s sweet and fun and festive! I already ordered 3 more for my friends because I know they’ll love the writing." Read more

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  • Deb K
    5.0 out of 5 stars You need to buy this book!!!
    Reviewed in the United States on November 15, 2019
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    It was exciting to open the box containing this long-awaited book to find that, not only was the cover festive, the inside was as well.

    I confess to not being a huge fan of Christmas romance movies, but the characters, the locations, and the plots were very familiar to me. That was just the beginning of the fun of this book, and it got even better as it progressed. This book is laugh-out-loud funny! The author has an off the wall sense of humor, and the puns were hilarious. I quite enjoyed seeing the mystery solved, and for the first time in my life, considered arm veins. I found the final option the most satisfying. You'll just have to read the book to find out what I mean.

    So, as far as people on your Christmas shopping list, do you have someone who loves to read? Someone who loves Christmas romances, or even someone who doesn't? Do you have someone who loves to laugh, or perhaps needs to laugh? Perhaps I'm describing you. You need to buy this book!
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  • Melon
    5.0 out of 5 stars A great Christmas present (especially for someone you might not know)
    Reviewed in the United States on February 1, 2020
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    This is a hilarious book that is great to put on the coffee table at Christmas time! Riane is one of the funniest writers today and displays her humor in this book perfectly. This is such a good book that it would make a great secret Santa gift, especially if you don't know the person because everyone is bound to love this book!
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  • 74Mash
    3.0 out of 5 stars Interesting
    Reviewed in the United States on December 29, 2019
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    I did not dislike nor did I like the book. It was very different from traditional books. Being a Kindle version was a little different than a book in hand. When you make your choice of nexts sometimes tells you to go to a certain page. The Kindle is not showing a page number. Some of the go to instructions are clear and others had multiple options. In short you needed to follow the verbage very carefully. I felt the story was kind of cute and sappy, predictable too.
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  • Reader in Iowa
    5.0 out of 5 stars I cackled out loud and woke up my husband.
    Reviewed in the United States on December 16, 2019
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    I grew up loving choose your own adventure books (who didn't?) and thought this sounded like fun. It so was. I'm not even a fan of the Hallmark movie per se, but the tropes were so familiar that her twists on them were hilarious. This would be a great gift (or one you give yourself...)
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  • C.E.S.
    5.0 out of 5 stars Do you love cheesy xmas movie and ridiculous the plots?
    Reviewed in the United States on December 9, 2021
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    Such a fun book. So funny and a great gift. I am big city business girl, but I fell for Candy Falls too! I have reread it, again and again, to go on different adventures.
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  • boudz
    5.0 out of 5 stars Funny
    Reviewed in the United States on December 11, 2019
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    Riane Konc is one my favorite humor writers and this book doesn’t disappoint. Laugh out loud funny, and those who have seen a lot of TV holiday movies will recognize a lot of funny tropes. I was expecting this book to be skinnier but it’s more coffee table sized, and it’s nice to have out as an interactive holiday decoration on the table
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  • A. Lococo
    5.0 out of 5 stars Hilarious Book
    Reviewed in the United States on December 18, 2019
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    If you like Hallmark or Lifetime movies, or even enjoy making fun of them, you will love this book. It is hilarious. You can read it several times and it be an entirely different story. Konc is a brilliant writer. This would make a great gift.
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  • Kindle Customer
    1.0 out of 5 stars Don't Purchase the Kindle Version
    Reviewed in the United States on March 27, 2021
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    This has the ability to be great, if only the pages were numbered in Kindle! I could not read it because I couldn't skip to the pages that I was supposed to. I tried to remove the purchase and ended up having to call Amazon to resolve the issue. Don't purchase the Kindle version, whatever you do.
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  • lindsey n
    5.0 out of 5 stars Cheesy and fun- perfect
    Reviewed in Canada on January 20, 2025
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    I loved the choose your own adventure books. This brought back that fun, mixing it with my favorite holiday (Christmas in case it isn't obvious) and a funny, cheesy play on Hallmark movie/christmas story standards. A quick and fun read!
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