Retro Book Review: Invaders of the Planet Earth (Choose Your Own Adventure).
CYOA's take on a classic alien invasion narrative has a great premise, but doesn't fully develop it. [Read Me!]
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Retro Book Review: Secret of the Sun God (Choose Your Own Adventure).
An adventure among (fictional) Mesoamerican Indians is the chief offering of this decent, if unremarkable, Choose Your Own Adventure book. [Read Me!]
Retro Book Review: Secret of the Ninja (Choose Your Own Adventure).
Your dojo is going down the tubes, and saving it involves tracing a mysterious sword and tangling with ninjas in this Choose Your Own Adventure book. [Read Me!]
Retro Book Review: The Mardi Gras Mystery (Choose Your Own Adventure).
Missed opportunities abound in what has got to be one of the most disappointing CYOA books of the series. [Read Me!]
Retro Book Review: Mystery of the Secret Room (Choose Your Own Adventure).
Mystery of the Secret Room is a standout of the CYOA series, written by one of its most interesting and accomplished authors. [Read Me!]
Retro Book Review: Vanished! (Choose Your Own Adventure).
What took the CYOA series so long to feature an adventure involving the Bermuda Triangle? [Read Me!]
Retro Book Review: Terror Island (Choose Your Own Adventure).
In this CYOA adventure you're fighting an evil corporation on a distant South Pacific island. Not the most original, but entertaining. [Read Me!]
Retro Book Review: The Trumpet of Terror (Choose Your Own Adventure).
This book would make a great heavy metal concept album. I nominate Amon Amarth to do the music! [Read Me!]
Retro Book Review: Forest of Fear (Choose Your Own Adventure).
Forest of Fear? Not quite. Forest of Mild Consternation, perhaps. [Read Me!]
Retro Book Review: The Case of the Silk King (Choose Your Own Adventure).
In this Choose Your Own Adventure book, you go in search of a silk magnate who disappeared (in real life) in 1967. [Read Me!]
