Customer Reviews

City of Thieves

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This fifth title in the series, along with Warlock of Firetop Mountain(1), Forest of Doom(3) and Deathtrap Dungeon(6), helps form the bedrock of the Fighting Fantasy world of Allansia. The sense of being in a wild, dangerous, exotic city filled with adventure is very well described by Livingstone. One cool aspect is that many later books in the series refer to Port Blacksand and it's dark denizens in passing. It gives a nice sense of continuity and familiarity with the FF world to be able to say, 'Yeah, I know. I've been there.'

Anyway, this is a must-have if you really want to have a good sense of the world-building that Livingstone and Jackson were doing with this series. Plus it's just a crackling good adventure!

Adrian

It's funny how parts of your childhood return. I've been purchasing the Fighting Fantasy game book series that I used to play when I was 13. Now I'm 38, and playing them all over again. I have a toddler that takes up most of my time when I get home from work, and this series has been a fun way to relax at night and read/play for a little while before going to bed. It's like reading a book from the Choose Your Own Adventure series, but you have to fight villains by rolling 2 regular dice and find hidden objects in the story. I would probably try City of Thieves first since it was (in my opinion) the easiest in the series and has some excellent illustrations. The quality of the illustrations various from book to book, and City of Thieves is well done. The villains you face aren't too hard/numerous to defeat compared to some of the other books, and even if you get lost in some of the maze-like sections, the book will usually get you back to where you need to be. Others in the series will have you pulling your hair out when you seem to go in endless circles and just want to advance in the story. If you enjoy City of Thieves, you will probably get hooked and buy several more. I'm grateful that Amazon helped me find copies in the series so quickly since you have to order outside the U.S. Many are used copies, but are in really good shape and sell for only a few pennies apiece. I had about fifteen of these growing up, but never kept them. Now, I wish I had! These books have brought back a lot of good memories, and there have been parts of the stories that I suddenly remember from 25 years ago. I give it 5 stars for the fun and illustrations, and 4 stars because it was a simple book to win. There is fighting violence, but I would be comfortable letting any of my fifth graders try the series.

I very much enjoyed this as the first book in my collection of Fighting Fantasy.

The Book was good fun, pretty much addictive.

It arrived it supreme condition, to which I was thoroughly pleased.

Thank you!

I sat down on Friday night to read this book and I was very amused. It was an incredibly fun experience, and the course of the adventure held my attention. There were lots of amusing scenes and twists and turns in the plot line. At this point, after having read this gamebook, I plan to read all the books in the series. I wished that there would be a massive return of gamebooks of the 80's. These really are enjoyable.

I was about elleven when i read this book. It took me a while because I always had to look up words in the vocabulary! But that reading experience was awsome, up there with the Lord of the Rings. It is very hard and challenging too, not one of these walk-through Fighting Fantasy. Give it a try!