Customer Reviews

Indiana Jones & the Gold of Genghis Khan (Find Your Fate, No 9)

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* CHARACTERS:
Characters are decently established. The name "Mr. Snake" was lame though.

* ARTWORK:
Above average quality as usual for this series.

* STORY:
The story is above average. It is better than "Cup of the Vampire," but not as good as "Eye of the Fates." The only real problem is the pursuit of treasure - there isn't much of a sense of urgency pursuing treasure compared to say, finding the lost Ark, Eye of Fates, etc. I do with the storyline with exploring the dungeon was more developed, but compared to the garbage R.L. Stine wrote, this book is a gem.

* AUTHOR'S WRITING STYLE:
The writing style is above average, with good use of subtlety and building of suspense.

* GAMEBOOK DESIGN
As a gamebook, many of the choices made you pause and think about which is the best choice to make. Some of the choices were lame in the respect that it was a do it or chicken out choice, but it is easily made up for by the excellent choices. The difficulty in making a decision was similar to Carol Gaskin's "Master of Mazes" and "The Magician's Ring."

One problem was that some of the choices went to the next page. It's difficult to avoid the temptation of reading the next page instead of actually choosing the choice you want to.

* CONCLUSION:
An above average gamebook, and clearly one of the better books of this series.