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jessferg's review
2.0
Of course I read Choose-Your-Own-Adventures as a kid and they were fun for an afternoon diversion but as an adult it's too easy to get caught up in the disjointedness of the story. This is even more bothersome in a "history" story where it's unclear what actually happened and what didn't. As with most of the series, the same "adventure" can have multiple endings which begs the question - what really happened? With fiction, it's not so much an issue, but here it feels like a sticking point.
There is an afterward with some sparse information on James Lafayette and a timeline of slavery and emancipation in the United States but I don't know the kid that's going to read that part voluntarily.
I was very happy to see a missing figure in history represented, but this just isn't the format to give Lafayette justice.
There is an afterward with some sparse information on James Lafayette and a timeline of slavery and emancipation in the United States but I don't know the kid that's going to read that part voluntarily.
I was very happy to see a missing figure in history represented, but this just isn't the format to give Lafayette justice.
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