Customer Reviews

Mystery of the Maya (Choose Your Own Adventure #5)

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I would reccomend this entire series, and especially this book. The cover really jumped out at me. Once I picked it up, I couldn't put it down. Any young reader would enjoy this book. You travel back to the time of the Mayans to find your friend Tom. You end up with a whole lot more on your hands than just your friend's disappearance. You run into aliens, Mayans, and a whole bunch of adventure. You might end up in jail, you might find your friend Tom, or you could even travel to outer space. This book won't leave you disappointed. Each turn of the page and decision adds a new level to the mystery. You have to deal with the tradition of human sacrifice with the Mayans, as well as dangerous strangers. Watch out and you just might make it out alive.

I sent the sample to my kindle but the sample only contains the cover and the table of contents - no actual content. I have a kindle 2, and the product page says it is optimized for the DX so I was worried there will be problems - that's why I wanted to try a sample. I decided to go ahead and buy it because unlike something like a comic book, I saw no reason why screen size would matter. Also, Amazon is good about refunding ebooks if there is a significant problem with them.

I just started reading this book and it seems to work just fine on the smaller kindles - in fact I'm not sure why they said optimized for the DX. There are illustrations, which is nice - not many of my kindle books have illustrations - but those display just fine on the smaller kindles.

One note for the author or whoever edits them for the kindle - the directions at the beginning say that if you change your mind, press previous page to go back and make a different choice. But that's not correct - you want to press "back".

Mystery of the Maya gives readers an exciting glimpse of ancient Mayan society and a thrillingly unconventional journey through the pages of a book. As in all Choose Your Own Adventure books, the reader must frequently decide between various plot alternatives, flipping through the pages of the book to follow one particular storyline or another. Told in the second person, Choose Your Own Adventures permit "you," the reader, to face death, arrest or untold glory in a way that makes reading unexpected and very entertaining. This book is great fun for reluctant readers, who will enjoy the adventures in time travel, human sacrifice, warrior initiation and great financial success.