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adventurous
lighthearted
fast-paced
2.0
I had a lot of fun with 'The Master of Mazes', so much, I had to pick up the rest of the series.
'The Forbidden Towers' is how You, Lifin, a young elf, upon returning from a morning's frolic picking berries for your village discovers your people have all been struck with a terrible vanishing plague. The only cure is hidden somewhere in the five forbidden towers. The reader has to pick between Spiders, Hands, Eaters, Bones and Beasts, and find a path to the healing herb before your village entirely disappears.
The structure is interesting, with many "bad" endings, but only one ending where you save the day. It was both a creative and a boring touch. The abundance of wordplay and moral dilemmas is absent here, while with 'Mazes' Gaskin got the personal stake across - Lifen's quest is abstract. You are saving your village, but you don't meet them. The book was OK - I'm hoping 'The War of the Wizards' is better.
'The Forbidden Towers' is how You, Lifin, a young elf, upon returning from a morning's frolic picking berries for your village discovers your people have all been struck with a terrible vanishing plague. The only cure is hidden somewhere in the five forbidden towers. The reader has to pick between Spiders, Hands, Eaters, Bones and Beasts, and find a path to the healing herb before your village entirely disappears.
The structure is interesting, with many "bad" endings, but only one ending where you save the day. It was both a creative and a boring touch. The abundance of wordplay and moral dilemmas is absent here, while with 'Mazes' Gaskin got the personal stake across - Lifen's quest is abstract. You are saving your village, but you don't meet them. The book was OK - I'm hoping 'The War of the Wizards' is better.
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