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vortimer's review
3.0
Unusual to stumble across one of these in good condition these days.
I can see how I enjoyed them as a child, but also how I soon defected to the more complex and red blooded Fighting Fantasy game books when they came along.
Kudos is due to Choose Your Own Adventure for blazing the trail.
I can see how I enjoyed them as a child, but also how I soon defected to the more complex and red blooded Fighting Fantasy game books when they came along.
Kudos is due to Choose Your Own Adventure for blazing the trail.
mattstebbins's review
Kerr said it better in her review, but here's the thing: This is not a kid's book. Nor is it really a book about mountain survival. 100% false advertising; sorry, folks. Lots of potential in this one, sure, but the central conflict in several storylines is a dude who abducts a kid, and that's not mountain survival skills so much as dumb fearmongering. [b:Hatchet|50|Hatchet (Brian's Saga, #1)|Gary Paulsen|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1385297074l/50._SX50_.jpg|1158125], for all of its faults, is still a much better option if surviving a plane crash with wilderness skills is your thing.
n8duke's review
4.0
So good! Exciting as all get out! Plus, I really enjoyed having to think through directions. And loved finding the map and putting it to good use. What a great book.
kerrianne's review
2.0
I bought this book for Matt for Christmas because the one Choose Your Own Adventure book I had as a kid was delightful and strange in all the right places. But apparently (and I suppose as is to be expected), not all CYOA books are created equal.
This one is supposed to center on "mountain survival" and when it does, it's amusing and fun. But there's a central storyline about some kid tied up in an off-grid cabin by a grown man with a shotgun and a knife (say whaaaat?), and that isn't so much "mountain survival" as it is "Deliverance."
I'd be willing to forgive the creepy cabin pages IF one of them didn't end with [SPOILER IF YOU CARE] a kid being straigh-up bludgeoned to death with the butt of the Creepy Kidnapper's shotgun (Which: What the actual f*ck, everyone who had anything to do with this book?).
I'd honestly say this book is 100% not for kids, which is utterly ridiculous, seeing as how kids are supposed to be this book's target audience.
[Two stars for making people think about what they'd do if they miraculously survived a plane crash in the snowy mountains. Keep dreaming, kids!]
This one is supposed to center on "mountain survival" and when it does, it's amusing and fun. But there's a central storyline about some kid tied up in an off-grid cabin by a grown man with a shotgun and a knife (say whaaaat?), and that isn't so much "mountain survival" as it is "Deliverance."
I'd be willing to forgive the creepy cabin pages IF one of them didn't end with [SPOILER IF YOU CARE] a kid being straigh-up bludgeoned to death with the butt of the Creepy Kidnapper's shotgun (Which: What the actual f*ck, everyone who had anything to do with this book?).
I'd honestly say this book is 100% not for kids, which is utterly ridiculous, seeing as how kids are supposed to be this book's target audience.
[Two stars for making people think about what they'd do if they miraculously survived a plane crash in the snowy mountains. Keep dreaming, kids!]
apostrophen's review
4.0
I loved the Choose Your Own Adventure books, and constantly borrowed them from the library. I owned a few, too, and would mark little pencilled notations on all the endings I managed to reach in my own copies (I'd tuck aside a piece of paper for the ones from the library). When I was nine and ten, these books got re-read so many times it was unreal, and they paved the way to me wanting to write, too, as sometimes I got annoyed at an obvious, missing option.
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