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roses_readingspace's review against another edition
4.0
Reader beware... You choose the scare!
Readers experiences the adventures of visiting a wax museum, where things are not what they seem. Use the clues and decide your own fate.
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A history class is taking a trip to the Wicked Wax Museum the day before it opens. You and your friends, misbehave while on the bus. Then you are told by Mr. Dunning, the teacher, that you are not allowed inside. Eventually, one of your friends decides to go inside and soon starts screaming, providing you with the first choice in the book: whether to go in after him or to go find help. If you go after your friend, you find out the museum's secret of making their exhibits. Unfortunately, you and your friends may end up as the newest additions. If you go for help, you will run into a mysterious man named Axel. He leads you to Sybil Wicked, since he's apparently working for her, and she is looking for a new face to replace her disfigured one, and she might get yours!
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There are a total of 22 different endings from which you can only survive in two. I read through 15 scenarios and finally was able to survive in one. Each scenario has its own story to tell but mainly focused on 2 things - you either meet the owner of the museum or encounter Sybil Wicked.
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I enjoyed the book because of its wide variety of endings and interesting twists and turns. It's a good light read for some fun scary story scenarios.
Readers experiences the adventures of visiting a wax museum, where things are not what they seem. Use the clues and decide your own fate.
.
A history class is taking a trip to the Wicked Wax Museum the day before it opens. You and your friends, misbehave while on the bus. Then you are told by Mr. Dunning, the teacher, that you are not allowed inside. Eventually, one of your friends decides to go inside and soon starts screaming, providing you with the first choice in the book: whether to go in after him or to go find help. If you go after your friend, you find out the museum's secret of making their exhibits. Unfortunately, you and your friends may end up as the newest additions. If you go for help, you will run into a mysterious man named Axel. He leads you to Sybil Wicked, since he's apparently working for her, and she is looking for a new face to replace her disfigured one, and she might get yours!
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There are a total of 22 different endings from which you can only survive in two. I read through 15 scenarios and finally was able to survive in one. Each scenario has its own story to tell but mainly focused on 2 things - you either meet the owner of the museum or encounter Sybil Wicked.
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I enjoyed the book because of its wide variety of endings and interesting twists and turns. It's a good light read for some fun scary story scenarios.
connorjdaley's review
adventurous
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
5.0
This is one of the Give Yourself Goosebumps books, and I think the series was serviced really well as a choose your own adventure. It made it both scarier and more climactic flipping back and forth through the pages. At one point I had all five fingers of one hand between pages so that I wouldn’t miss any of the endings.
I went into this hoping for a Goosebumps version of The House of Wax and to a certain extent, it is, but it also does it’s own thing. A bit more supernatural, and it pulls a few characters from the original series to appear as wax figures!
Personally a 5/5*, really enjoyed this format.
yikesdude's review against another edition
lighthearted
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
xwritingstoriesx's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
4 stars! A blast from the past. I read this as part of a challenge and I'd forgotten just how much I enjoyed these choose your own adventure books. It's such a fun concept to break away from reading dense books. R.L Stine was the first to introduce me to my interest in horror lit and his work has a special place in my heart for this reason alone.
Content Warnings
Minor: Medical trauma, Gore, Body horror, and Violence
hollowspine's review
3.0
This really hearkens back to the grade and middle school days. Once I discovered Goosebumps books in 4th grade, there was no going back. I think the first one I read was Welcome to Dead House about a young girl who moves to a new town and discovers that pretty much everyone in the town is a zombie. Welcome to Dead House was the first Goosebumps book, published back in 1992, but one doesn’t need to read them in order. I skipped the ones with hamsters or gnomes on their covers, only going for the books that had creepy covers. Aliens, pets and lawn ornaments didn’t really do it for me, though I’m sure they all turned out to be pretty creepy.
Now, with the Goosebumps movie out I thought I’d revisit some of the books, so close to my weird childhood self. I tried to read some that were unfamiliar to me, though most of these covers I’ve seen at some point or another. Welcome to the Wicked Wax Museum is a typical Goosebumps set up, three kids get lost in a creepy museum and have to find a way out before they get turned into wax displays, have their faces stolen or get caught in one of the many traps. I died many times. In fact, I think in the attempts I only actually made it out with my life once. I was turned into a wax figure, I was “de-boned,” I got steamed. Even when I did survive it was only to face being told off by my parents. Adults never believe anything!
There is a certain corniness that one comes to expect from the Goosebumps series. The Wicked Wax Museum delivered again and again. Despite the often terribly corny lines it was hard to put down. I had to see what bizarre turn the story could take next. Would I be attacked by some sort of living birthday candle? Would Mr. Dunning (their teacher) turn out to be in on the whole thing? Was it all just a hoax after all, some sort of Grand Opening prank on the kids?
Light reading, a funny and entertaining half-hour perusal. Great for kids who don’t think they like reading, since it grabs readers attention, has tons of gross humor and is pretty entertaining. It’s no Caldecott winning literature, but hey, it’s a doorway into reading for some of us.
Now, with the Goosebumps movie out I thought I’d revisit some of the books, so close to my weird childhood self. I tried to read some that were unfamiliar to me, though most of these covers I’ve seen at some point or another. Welcome to the Wicked Wax Museum is a typical Goosebumps set up, three kids get lost in a creepy museum and have to find a way out before they get turned into wax displays, have their faces stolen or get caught in one of the many traps. I died many times. In fact, I think in the attempts I only actually made it out with my life once. I was turned into a wax figure, I was “de-boned,” I got steamed. Even when I did survive it was only to face being told off by my parents. Adults never believe anything!
There is a certain corniness that one comes to expect from the Goosebumps series. The Wicked Wax Museum delivered again and again. Despite the often terribly corny lines it was hard to put down. I had to see what bizarre turn the story could take next. Would I be attacked by some sort of living birthday candle? Would Mr. Dunning (their teacher) turn out to be in on the whole thing? Was it all just a hoax after all, some sort of Grand Opening prank on the kids?
Light reading, a funny and entertaining half-hour perusal. Great for kids who don’t think they like reading, since it grabs readers attention, has tons of gross humor and is pretty entertaining. It’s no Caldecott winning literature, but hey, it’s a doorway into reading for some of us.
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