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I received a copy of this book for a fair and honest review. I am not good at those chose your own adventures since did not matter how many times I tried to go through the book I died, but that is just how it happens. I am going to keep trying to see if I can make it through. I don't want to say too much it will ruin the choices that we can make. It is a lot of fun and takes me back to my childhood when I had a lot of books like this.

It has been ages since I've read a Choose Your Own Adventure type story, and I have to say that these D&D ones are great fun and made me feel like a kid again. I would absolutely recommend all of them to Dungeons and Dragons fans but also to those who want to experience the nostalgia of the CYOA books you loved as a child.

#1. Do you like adventure? Are you a treasure hunter trapped in an average Jane or Joe's body? Go to #3. If not, go to #6

#2. Are you ready to encounter drows, gnomes, orcs, dwarfs, goblins, and huge hairy spiders? Yes? Continue to #5. If this is getting too scary for you, go to #6.

#3. Did you grow up on Choose Your Own Adventure books? Did you ever play Dungeons and Dragons? Do you like fantasy books/ games/ movies? If you answered yes to any of these questions, go to #2. If you're actually like, kinda-sorta boring, go to #6.

#4. You're stuck in a dungeon, deep underground. Bound by chains and surrounded by a scary bunch of inmates, you need to decide what to do... Will you try to escape? Will you fight for your freedom? If you want to begin your journey, go to #7. If you are still trying to figure out what end of the sword to hold... Go to #6.

#5. Are you ready to make all the choices? Become a master of your fate? Decide your destiny? Go to #4. If you have better things to do like count tree rings or twist straws and make them do that pop thing, go to #6.

#6. You trip, hit your head, and wake up as a slug. The End.

#7 Go pick up Matt Forbeck's Escape the Underdark. It's a fun trip into nostalgia for some and a new trek into the awesome world of D&D and the Forgotten Realms for others. No matter how you enter the dungeon, you will come out changed. You will be The Fighter!

4 out of 5 stars

Thank you to NetGalley, Candlewick Press, And Matt Forbeck for the advanced copy for review.

I've always loved choose your own adventure novels. This one was a lot of fun too. Definitely recommend it!

The "Choose Your Own Adventure" books sold millions of copies in the 1980s and as a child of the 80s, I devoured them.

I can fondly recall the proverbial "five-fingered bookmark" as you grip the book in multiple sections, thus enabling a back step, should your ill-fated choice prove fatal.

Regrettably, this was a short-lived genre that was soon supplanted by video games, but The Lone Wolf series by Joe Dever as well the incomparable Fighting Fantasy series by Ian Livingstone and Steve Jackson brings back fond memories.

My daughter is now following my footsteps by playing Dungeons and Dragons, so I was rather excited to share Escape the Underdark with her. Alas, the Kindle version provided is presently incompatible with following the page choices so we are left stranded in that cold, dank cell.

Accordingly, I presently unable to properly review this novel, but hope that this issue is resolved soonest by the publisher. I have tentatively allocated a three star rating so as to enable this post and I hope to return in future with a full, nostalgic laden review.