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In a new series of choose-your-own-adventure-style books, Matt Forbeck writes the Endless Quest series that take middle school readers through actual Dungeons & Dragons content in an adventure filled quest. In Big Trouble, the reader is an elven druid whose family home is attacked by hill giants. They must make choices about if they will stay and fight, flee, or hide to try to save themselves and their little brother. There are many twists and turns that lead to success or failure. This series of books is particularly good for kids who are already hooked on D&D, kids who love this style of book, or both. It may be an excellent way to introduce readers to Dungeons & Dragons if they haven’t heard of it before, or to get those who are into D&D reading more books. Purchase wherever either is popular.

At first I wasn’t really into this story, and I couldn’t tell if, after reading a couple of these already, it had probably lost its novelty or I had lost my nostalgia. But then I kept reading to get to the different endings, and I liked how varied the endings were.

It seemed more than just the one or two “winning” endings and the rest of them ending in death like I remember a lot of the Choose Your Own Adventure type stories always seemed to.

This may be my favorite one out of the three that were released at the same time.

Worth checking out if you missed the Endless Quest books we had as kids, or like Dungeons & Dragons, or just enjoy interactive books.

<i>Thanks to NetGalley and Candlewick Press for a copy in return for an honest review.</i>

Matt Forbeck crafts yet another solid story with engaging characters, evocative backgrounds, and the added fun of the Endless Quest choices that make one book into scores of different stories depending on your choices!

Alas, the Netgalley copy I received for a review failed to allow the branching choices to alter the narrative flow while I read this on my Kindle, so I can't comment on the choose-a-path nature of the story.

What I can say is that Matt's characters and their plights grab you from the get-go and show you the Forgotten Realms from a singular/personal perspective. As I was among the few who've written about Ardeep Forest in the past, I enjoyed seeing this from another viewpoint as a fan of the Realms.

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.

I received a copy of this for a fair and honest review. This is the third of those books this kind I have review. I am a tremble adventurer. I guess I take to many risk or that I am to nosy. I seem to find a lot of tragic endings for myself. But I have to say that I have a lot fun getting to those point even if it's not the end that the book actually wants you too. Grab a copy of this and have a go. It can get a little strange but that is part of the appeal.

This was an adorable story. I LOVE pick your own path books! I did however find some of the names difficult to prnounce when reading them to the kids. It was also a bit difficult turning to this page or that when it says to on the kindle. But my kids 7&10 loved them and enjoyed making the choices and seeing what happens

This is a great choose-your-own-adventure style book. You're chilling at home minding your own business when giants attack! There are lots of choices for you to make, and most of the paths lead to a pretty bad ending. Have fun trying to find the path that leads you to a victorious end!

I love how many options there are, and how sometimes when you think you're choosing the "safe" option there's a plot twist and it wasn't so safe after all. I read through this about three times and then gave up trying to survive this encounter with the giants. I sure wasn't able to find a path to a happy ending, though in flipping through and reading some of the endings there ARE a few... well, it not HAPPY endings, at least less horrible ones that don't result in your death.

Warning that there is a fair amount of death and dismemberment in this book (plus giants eating people and choking to death), so it's not for a very young audience.