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Secret of the Ninja by Suzanne Nugent, Jay Leibold, Jose Marron, Jose Luis Marron

jannyslibrary's review against another edition

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3.0

I like choose your own adventure bc I like a book that starts with a "WARNING!!!" and instructions on how to read it (NOT from beginning to end, ya dangus!!)

I found all the endings bc I cheat and use all ten fingers as bookmarks

lynn_k's review against another edition

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3.0

Lots of mystery and intrigue!

myoungs's review against another edition

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4.0

I hadn’t read one of these since I was a kid. So I did a buddy read with my 8 year old. He made notes with his choices and then I read it and did the same. Then we compared our stories. It was a very fun way to read this. My son loved it and we are going to try this again with some other Choose Your Own Adventure books.

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4.0

La serie de Elige tu propia aventura es, literalmente, un clásico de nuestra infancia. He releído algunos, años después, y me parecen un poco cortos de miras, limitados en las posibilidades, pero cuando tenía 10 años cada uno de ellos era una maravilla lista para ser explorada hasta que hubiera dado todo lo que tenía dentro.
Al final siempre sabías que ibas a recorrer todos y cada uno de los caminos posibles. La emoción estaba, por tanto, en ganar y pasarte la historia al primer intento. Si no podías, pues nada, seguro que en el intento 18 acababas encontrando el camino. A veces los autores iban "a pillar", poniéndote los resultados buenos detrás de decisiones que eran claramente anómalas.
Recuerdo haber aprendido tanto palabras como hechos y datos en estos libros. No nadar contra la corriente cuando quieres llegar a tierra, dónde colocarse cuando un avión va a despegar, un montón de cosas interesantes y un montón de historias vividas, decenas por cada libro, que convirtieron a las serie en una colección fractal, donde cada vez podías elegir un libro nuevo entre los que ya tenías.
Llegué hasta el tomo 54 y dejé de tener interés por la serie, pero la serie siguió hasta superar los 180 títulos. Tal vez mis hijos quieran seguir el camino que yo empecé. Si quieres que lo sigan, pasa a la página 7.

vimesbootstheory's review against another edition

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adventurous informative
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot

1.5

I feel like Leibold actually wanted to write a regular, non-CYOA book, but somehow he ended up with the opportunity to write a CYOA book so he just shoved one of his special interests into the format. I did kinda like that he clearly did more than the expected amount of research to write a kids book about ninjas, but to be honest, it got a big bogged down in the exposition and the anchoring in real history, so that in the end, he really just took this way too seriously. There aren’t enough choices, and when there WERE choices, they felt railroaded. Like when I chose to go back into the past to ninja times (because of COURSE I did), the book was like, are you sure? There are other options that are not time travel? Like, fuck off, of course I want to time travel, are you kidding me? 
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