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What If… (Gamebooks)
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The What If... series is a series of Young Adult Gamebooks by Liz Ruckdeschel. In the first one, fifteen-year-old Haley Miller moves from California to New England and is installed in her first public high school at the start of sophomore year, and the reader is asked to make her choices.The form of gamebook is fairly simple. There will be a chapter after each choice, in which Haley's story changes due to the repercussions of the previous choice, and the chapter will end with either a choice, a proper ending, or, if the reader has made a particularly bad choice, the storyline will reach a dead end, and the reader is told to start over. Each story begins in such a way that it loosely connects to the previous story.You may be looking for a trope called What If?, or another work by the same name. | |
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Strip Poker | |
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Strip Poker: Haley, in one "start over" ending of What If... All the Boys Wanted You, takes off everything except her bra and panties in a game of strip poker. She still loses, and ends up on the internet, and gets teased about it for the whole of high school and college. | |
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Annoying Younger Sibling | |
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Annoying Younger Sibling: During the first four books, Mitchell Miller, Haley's little brother, insists on talking in a robotic monotone. He doesn't even seem to realize he's changed his manner of speaking when he starts to talk normally again. | |
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Nerds Are Sexy | |
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Nerds Are Sexy: Alex, a cute guy who also happens to be a nerd. | |
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Darker and Edgier | |
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Darker and Edgier: The bad endings of the seventh book are darker than previous ones. There are still minor ones, like Haley losing her boyfriend over a game and getting caught staying over with a boy at night. But the worse ones include Haley being severely dehydrated while slimming, taking diet pills and being sent to a psychiatric ward, and getting into a car with a stranger who gets pulled over for drink-driving. Each ending points out that Haley was extremely lucky to survive. If Coco is taking dietary pills and Haley tries to talk sense into her instead of going to the nurse, it ends in Coco having to be rushed to hospital, with the book telling you off for not taking the situation more seriously. | |
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Playing Hard to Get | |
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Playing Hard to Get: Irene suggests Haley do this to get Devon's attention, treating him like he no longer matters to her and barely giving him a second glance. [[spoiler: It works. One bad ending has Haley ignoring Irene's advice and Devon making it clear he considers her a stalker. If you continue playing this to the end, Haley realizes that she doesn't like Devon's puppy love and you can either cut him loose and be honest (which leads to a dead end), or try being nice to him again so that he cools things, and he even admits to the intensity of the relationship being his own fault.] | |
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Alpha Bitch | |
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Coco's best friend, Whitney Klein, fills this role to Coco's Alpha Bitch, | |
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Nerdy Inhaler | |
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Nerdy Inhaler: Dave Metzger has one of these. | |
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Spoiled Sweet | |
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Spoiled Sweet: Sasha again. | |
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Break the Haughty | |
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Break the Haughty: In the third book, Coco gets drunk on New Years' Eve, embarrasses herself in front of pretty much the entire student body, and sends herself roses on Valentine's Day. Taken up to eleven in one ending when Haley puts a video of Coco on New Years on the Internet. | |
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Lovable Alpha Bitch | |
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Lovable Alpha Bitch: Sasha Lewis. She's friendly, extremely beautiful, and actually deserves her popularity. She does become distracted and aloof on her worse days, but usually comes off this way. | |
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Break the Cutie | |
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Break the Cutie: The start of the second book for Sasha. Her dad has gone missing in Atlantic City, and Sasha's stuck living with her boyfriend's band's lawless guitarist who's been stealing from the school, and her best friends have dumped her because they don't approve of her boyfriend. In one ending, it turns out that the band are also dealing drugs. | |
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Girl Next Door | |
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Girl Next Door: Haley is literally this to Reese Highland, and always starts in this position at the start of each book, so that the reader can choose which group to fit her into. | |
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You Are Fat | |
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You Are Fat: Coco in the seventh book tries to do this when one of the girls doesn't follow the cleanse to the letter, telling Haley off for eating a small piece of chicken, and calling Sasha fat for saying some calories are important. Both girls are of a healthy weight. | |
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Rich Bitch | |
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Rich Bitch: Coco. Her sister Ali often appears the same way. | |
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New Transfer Student | |
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New Transfer Student: Haley, who in the first book moves from the west coast to the east coast. Subverted that since she moves over the summer and starts sophomore year with everyone else, just as the new girl. | |
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"The Reason You Suck" Speech | |
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"The Reason You Suck" Speech: The dead ends that redirect you to the start often belittle the reader for making stupid or dangerous choices, like hazing younger girls, taking slimming pills, or trying to force a weak friend to stand up for herself. | |
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Gay Paree | |
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Gay Paree: One version of the third book involves Sasha's mother taking her and several friends to Paris, and the book ends on the first day, with Haley assuring the readers that the trip was worth it. | |
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What Were You Thinking? | |
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What Were You Thinking?: Often said by the author when the audience makes a bad decision. Sometimes it's directed at the reader, but it does often go to Haley. Book #2 even has a dead end that opens with asking you why you left Haley alone with a delinquent, and listing the awful things that happened because of it. Book #7 also opens a dead end berating you with this, telling you that you shouldn't have made Haley take slimming pills and she was lucky to end up in a psych ward and not the morgue (aka dead). Also inverted when the author congratulates you in some scenes. Book #6 tells you that it was very generous of you to help Mia (if you choose to) because Haley will get good karma from it. Consequently, if you consciously choose for Haley to ignore the situation, you reach a dead end. | |
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Child Prodigy | |
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Child Prodigy: Hannah Moss turns out to be three years younger than her peers in the third book, and still one of the smartest sophomores. Her grades at the end of sophomore year are the highest average in the class. | |
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Dumb Blonde | |
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Dumb Blonde: Whitney is not dumb, per se, but weak and ditzy. It's also hinted that it's not natural, since Coco mentions that if Whitney stopped bleaching it, her hair might stop falling out in the shower. | |
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Absurdly Divided School | |
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Absurdly Divided School: Coco decides which uncool kids to invite to her birthday party by cutting up a yearbook and picking their names out of a hat. | |
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Entitled Bastard | |
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Entitled Bastard: Coco thinks the world revolves around her. | |
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Carload of Cool Kids | |
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Carload of Cool Kids: How Haley first sees Coco's group. | |
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No Social Skills | |
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No Social Skills: Mostly the "geeks" (nerdy kids) or "freaks" (artsy kids). At least, the cool kids seem to think so. Haley in some of the bad endings. She becomes so entitled that even all of her friends desert her. | |
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Alliterative Name | |
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Alliterative Name: Annie Armstrong, Mitchell Miller, Luke Lawson. | |
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Blonde, Brunette, Redhead | |
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Blonde, Brunette, Redhead: In many books, Haley is the redhead to either Coco's brunette and Whitney's blonde, or to Sasha's blonde and Cecily's brunette. | |
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Toxic Friend Influence | |
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Toxic Friend Influence: Coco constantly treats Whitney badly, lowering her self-esteem. Consequently, Whitney acts more like Coco. Her rekindled friendship with Sasha later on helps her self-esteem and makes her a much nicer, healthier person. | |
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Lighter and Softer | |
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Lighter and Softer: The final book is lighter than its predecessor in tone like the other books, but takes it to extremes. Although there are three bad endings, only one of them asks you to start over. Haley has the chance of prom night going wrong in two endings, but neither of those ask you to return to the start. | |
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Anti-Frustration Features | |
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Anti-Frustration Features: Book #7 has one choice of whether to confront Coco about the slimming pills she's taking or to go to the school nurse. If you choose to talk to Coco first, you reach a dead end which tells you Haley should have gone straight to the nurse, so you know that you need to do that next time. You can, however, skip both chapters entirely and things can still turn out all right, where the dieting stops around Valentine's Day. | |
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Friendly Local Chinatown | |
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Friendly Local Chinatown: In the second book, Haley and her friends visit one of these in San Francisco. They even go to a restaurant there that Irene's parents wanted her to go to. | |
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Fallen Princess | |
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Fallen Princess: Coco de Clerq only drinks on New Years' Eve, and it really shows when she embarrasses herself in front of half the school. | |
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CantHoldHerLiquor | |
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Can't Hold Her Liquor: Coco only drinks alcohol on New Year's Eve. It is clear that she isn't used to it. | |
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Beta Bitch | |
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Beta Bitch: Coco's best friend, Whitney Klein, fills this role to Coco's Alpha Bitch, Occasionally, Sasha Lewis and Cecily Watson also appear to be this to Coco at times. Haley sometimes becomes this, either to Coco or to one of her other friends. | |
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With Friends Like These... | |
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With Friends Like These...: Mainly Coco to Whitney, but Haley can sometimes be this, particularly to Irene or Annie. Instances include entering one of Irene's sketches in a newspaper competition without telling her and allowing Coco to test Annie's loyalty. | |
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Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold | |
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Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: Sasha Lewis is as popular as Coco and Whitney at the start, but has the sweet personality they lack. Whitney can swing between this and Rich Bitch, but the heart of gold shows up more when she's free of toxic influences. | |
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