Book Reviews… Retro Book Review: The Brilliant Dr. Wogan (Choose Your Own Adventure). 23 Oct 201623 Oct 2016 The Brilliant Dr. Wogan is a highlight of the middle stretch of the Choose Your Own Adventure series. Imaginative, kinetic and exciting, it recaptures the youthful vibe of some of…
Book Reviews… Retro Book Review: Invaders of the Planet Earth (Choose Your Own Adventure). 15 Sep 201615 Sep 2016 For such a small book, Invaders of the Planet Earth took a super long time for me to read. This slender red and blue volume has been at my side or…
Book Reviews… Retro Book Review: Secret of the Sun God (Choose Your Own Adventure). 21 May 201621 May 2016 In Secret of the Sun God, author Andrea Packard--presumably the daughter of Choose Your Own Adventure series co-founder Edward Packard, whom I interviewed in 2013--has one or two main stories she…
Book Reviews… Retro Book Review: Secret of the Ninja (Choose Your Own Adventure). 26 Apr 201626 Apr 2016 Jay Leibold's Secret of the Ninja, which was the beginning of a tradition in the later Choose Your Own Adventure series, is a fairly engaging, entertaining book that manages to diminish--though…
Book Reviews… Retro Book Review: The Mardi Gras Mystery (Choose Your Own Adventure). 14 Apr 201614 Apr 2016 I wanted to like this book. God knows I wanted to like this book. I panned Louise Munro Foley's last three books, and as this is the last of hers…
Book Reviews… Retro Book Review: Mystery of the Secret Room (Choose Your Own Adventure). 3 Apr 20163 Apr 2016 Mystery of the Secret Room is lots of the most important thing a Choose Your Own Adventure book should be: fun! But it's also exceptionally well-written, with interesting characters, unusual…
Book Reviews… Retro Book Review: Vanished! (Choose Your Own Adventure). 26 Mar 201626 Mar 2016 Vanished! by Deborah Lerme Goodman is a very enjoyable Choose Your Own Adventure book despite some unevenness and fairly glaring shifts in tone, character and genre, especially when plot elements…
Book Reviews… Retro Book Review: Terror Island (Choose Your Own Adventure). 19 Mar 2016 As I begin this review I realize the word "Terror" is one of the most popular words in Choose Your Own Adventure titles--in fact this is the second review on…
Book Reviews… Retro Book Review: The Trumpet of Terror (Choose Your Own Adventure). 11 Mar 201611 Mar 2016 It's been a long time, but I haven't forgotten my Choose Your Own Adventure review series! If you told me when I started this series in 2013 that in three…
Book Reviews… Retro Book Review: Forest of Fear (Choose Your Own Adventure). 11 Dec 201511 Dec 2015 This is my first Choose Your Own Adventure review since early September, the last having been Shannon Gilligan's The Case of the Silk King. After doing this book, I may need…
Book Reviews… Retro Book Review: The Case of the Silk King (Choose Your Own Adventure). 1 Sep 20151 Sep 2015 This is a pretty special Choose Your Own Adventure review, and one I've looked forward to doing for a while now: not only is Shannon Gilligan's The Case of the Silk King…
Book Reviews… Retro Book Review: Ghost Hunter (Choose Your Own Adventure). 8 Aug 20158 Aug 2015 Ghost Hunter, one of the most popular classics of the Choose Your Own Adventure series, is a bit slow to get started and has some clunky bits that could have…
Book Reviews… Retro Book Review: You Are A Shark (Choose Your Own Adventure). 18 Jul 201518 Jul 2015 Okay, I know I promised that my next Choose Your Own Adventure review would be Ghost Hunter, a very popular entry in the series. But I just recently obtained a…
Book Reviews… Retro Book Review: The Magic of the Unicorn (Choose Your Own Adventure). 1 Jun 20151 Jun 2015 I can tell you right now that there are going to be some interesting gender dynamics in this review. Here I am, an adult non-heterosexual male, about to review a…
Book Reviews… Retro Book Review: Return to the Cave of Time (Choose Your Own Adventure). 18 May 201518 May 2015 We're at 50 already! This commemorative book, the 50th in the Choose Your Own Adventure saga, celebrates the big five-oh with a time travel adventure framed as a direct sequel…
