These Thieving Hearts

These Thieving Hearts is a lot like Freshman Magic. With a similarly long and rambling writing style with huge blocks of text, it takes too many words to tell you what is going on. Despite the fairly high 280k wordcount, it only ends up being a tedious read which makes your trip around the world feel like a drag.

With a large gang of male thieves, each with a different specialty, it's time to travel around the world on a thieving adventure. Who knows, you might find some romance on the way. Unfortunately, a lot of the characters are not at all interesting. Back in Freshman Magic, I was mildly interested in Alistair, but here, I simply tossed a few coins to pick someone, as none of the characters were the slightest bit engaging. Arthur won the multi-toss, and I managed to get him in the end. Yay? (Spoiler - click to show)Note: There was a skinny dip option at the end which was grayed out for me.

There is a good bit of sexual content, and I manged to get a happy ending with a trip to the pacific. Still, I'll say the same thing I did for Freshman Magic. Erotica isn't fun to read if it's not backed by strong characters and writing.

You get a fairly substantial selection of stats to choose from. I tried to split my focus between magic and history, and I think it got me through the game for the most part, although there were a couple of times where I hit a choice and (I think) I did not have the correct stat to pass it.

There is a good bit which I liked, such as the food choice selections and the hanging out with the guys segments here and there. Still, none of the guys in question were interesting. The premise of a heist which takes you around the world with a cool gang sounded pretty fun, but the writing just wasn't good enough to do this idea any justice.

There are better titles in the HC library. This isn't it.