This book! This book was a first for me. I have never read a "click your poison" or a "choose your own adventure" book before so it was interesting.
I was the main character. I was able to choose which direction and path I wanted the character to go down and explore. Would I survive the adventure? Or would I meet my demise at any given moment? The choice was mine.
What I liked about this was that up to a point I was able to decide myself how the storyline went. Do I want to stay and have a beer? Or because I know it's taboo, I simply leave the brothel? Which ship did I want to take? Which fate would be mine? It was a great story of pirates, braving the sea, and being underclass in a port city.
HOWEVER, there was no way to go back to the previous page unless I knew what page I was on, or what chapter. So if I died (which I did, embarrassingly early in the book) I had to go back and either try to remember the previous chapter and choose a different path, OR I had to start all over again. I could read the book 2-3 times and have it be different every time. Which I guess is the point, but for me it was a first.
For me, it was interesting to see how Schannep tied the whole thing together. No matter what I clicked the story still flowed. There was no gaps for me. He wrote in a manner that made the novel an easy read, fun and exciting to follow and leaving me wanting to know all the directions I could take to decide my fate.
Though I've never read to CYOA novel or anything from Schannep, I would totally recommend it.
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