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The First Journey by K.A. Applegate

tallahasseefloyd's review

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fast-paced

2.75

crosenfrisk's review

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1.0

Choose your own adventure. Does not advance the plot of the series.

jordandeanbaker's review

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1.0

Poorly written, missing page numbers at the start of each chapter… which are sort of essential for a choose your own adventure book. The “story” is a mess that lacks any sort of continuity. I finished it, but only because it was so short.

dreadandsolace's review

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adventurous lighthearted fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.0

The Solace: Animorphs but make it a choose your own adventure. This was pretty entertaining. We take a re-do at three of the previous stories inside this book, with the reader as the animorph, choosing which morphs in the moment. I definitely chose not the right morphs for a bit of it, but when I got it right it was very rewarding to know I could hang with the crew. 

The Dread: The stories are a bit repetitive, some don't add too much to the stories we've already read. The structure was also not so great at the end, with the last two chapters being failed endings, which would be resolved with simple rearranging. The last chapter also was missing directionals for our adventure. and of course, this is inconsequential to the rest of the world. 

Overall, this was just a fun and new way to experience the animorph series, one I enjoyed being a part of. 

hstapp's review

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2.0

I love choose your own adventure books, but this is just not a good one. There is only one narrative. All other choices quickly lead to a dead end.
Also it has you being a sixth human member of the crew and tracing through alternate versions of stories past. Which just doesn't make much sense. Getting to be one of the main characters or a new character in the world would have been much more satisfying.

babyleo's review

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adventurous funny informative fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

endaira91's review against another edition

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fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

So bad it’s…still bad, but kind of funny at the same time 

temporaryhouseplant's review

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adventurous lighthearted fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

2.0

kstericker's review

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adventurous medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

2.0


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invisibleninjacat's review

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4.0

The Animorphs reread continues! I never encountered these choose your own adventure books the first time around, but they're pretty cool. They also give you the opportunity to get eaten by a sloth, so that was fun. Definitely be careful choosing morphs. The background plot was pretty confusing, but not particularly important to the reading experience, so that was okay.