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Choose Your Own Adventure #49
Danger at Anchor Mine
While spending the summer in a small mining town, the reader discovers an old diary that leads to a dangerous quest for gold, in this multi-plot adventure.
128 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published September 1, 1985
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October 1, 2023
No matter how many times I read the book I somehow ended up trapped in the mine ! Lol this is a good read and very reminiscent of the adventure type of books! This is a fun and enjoyable read.
July 3, 2019
I would give two and a half stars to this book. I was eagerly anticipating this volume, having heard many good things about it.
Louise Munro Foley does not disappoint. The variety of storylines in this book is impressive, giving the reader diverse options for how to proceed. Much of the action is suspenseful, and the myriad narratives are creative and well-conceptualized.
Danger at Anchor Mine is a good vessel to promote the Choose Your Own Adventure series, and I hope more people read it.
Louise Munro Foley does not disappoint. The variety of storylines in this book is impressive, giving the reader diverse options for how to proceed. Much of the action is suspenseful, and the myriad narratives are creative and well-conceptualized.
Danger at Anchor Mine is a good vessel to promote the Choose Your Own Adventure series, and I hope more people read it.
May 6, 2022
This one really didn’t have that many choices, and a lot of it fell flat for me.
February 10, 2023
3.75 very interesting
June 18, 2012
A Choose Your Own Adventure without choices.
Danger at Anchor Mine (Choose Your Own Adventure #49) by Louise Munro Foley suffers from a lack of choices. On my first read through I went 8 pages before reaching an ending and had only one choice to make. If I had chosen the other path it was 10 pages before my next choice. I got unlucky my first time because there also are some potentially lengthy paths, though they also don't have a lot of choices. The plot has your character visiting her grandmother for the summer who operates a general store in a small Canadian mining town. There are rumors of one of the closed mines containing not only gold but also explosive booby-traps. These are rumors that pique your interest..
The problem with this book is that not much happens. Only one path leads you to gold and (SPOILER!) it's not in the mine. It's also a very short and unexciting path. Sometimes the mine in the gold and the supposed booby-trapped desk of one of the owners are treated as being real and sometimes they aren't. By the exact same characters. It depends on which path you take, which I found confusing as I was never sure if I was chasing after something real or just rumors. Also there's a canary who may or may not be of the supernatural variety. I don't know why.
I've read two other books by this author and have found her books a bit underwhelming (though this one even more so). Two of the longer storylines in Danger at Anchor Mine about hijackers are almost identical and lead to three almost identical (non)endings. There are a few of these non-endings where the adventure is post-phoned but you reach a THE END notice anyway. The author could've looped the storyline back into itself instead of having two identical storylines thereby freeing up the page count for new adventures. As it is, it feels like padding done by an author who didn't have much interest in the book she was writing. The author also could've increased the amount of choices by fitting more writing on each page since sometimes pages only have a couple sentences on them. The book also could've used more villains than just a jerk cop and the aforementioned hijackers, though I did like the couple of times the author included 'gas devils' as they felt like a spooky menace.
Leslie Morrill is the artist and considering how little there is for her to draw I thought she did a pretty good job of selling the action. One instance of this is when a hijacker is described as shoving you into a chair it's drawn with his outreached hand knocking you back into a chair as it nearly topples over. It added menace to these hijackers. One problem I did have with the art is sometimes it looks like characters are smiling when they're not (like during a cave-in).
Danger at Anchor Mine (Choose Your Own Adventure #49) by Louise Munro Foley suffers from a lack of choices. On my first read through I went 8 pages before reaching an ending and had only one choice to make. If I had chosen the other path it was 10 pages before my next choice. I got unlucky my first time because there also are some potentially lengthy paths, though they also don't have a lot of choices. The plot has your character visiting her grandmother for the summer who operates a general store in a small Canadian mining town. There are rumors of one of the closed mines containing not only gold but also explosive booby-traps. These are rumors that pique your interest..
The problem with this book is that not much happens. Only one path leads you to gold and (SPOILER!) it's not in the mine. It's also a very short and unexciting path. Sometimes the mine in the gold and the supposed booby-trapped desk of one of the owners are treated as being real and sometimes they aren't. By the exact same characters. It depends on which path you take, which I found confusing as I was never sure if I was chasing after something real or just rumors. Also there's a canary who may or may not be of the supernatural variety. I don't know why.
I've read two other books by this author and have found her books a bit underwhelming (though this one even more so). Two of the longer storylines in Danger at Anchor Mine about hijackers are almost identical and lead to three almost identical (non)endings. There are a few of these non-endings where the adventure is post-phoned but you reach a THE END notice anyway. The author could've looped the storyline back into itself instead of having two identical storylines thereby freeing up the page count for new adventures. As it is, it feels like padding done by an author who didn't have much interest in the book she was writing. The author also could've increased the amount of choices by fitting more writing on each page since sometimes pages only have a couple sentences on them. The book also could've used more villains than just a jerk cop and the aforementioned hijackers, though I did like the couple of times the author included 'gas devils' as they felt like a spooky menace.
Leslie Morrill is the artist and considering how little there is for her to draw I thought she did a pretty good job of selling the action. One instance of this is when a hijacker is described as shoving you into a chair it's drawn with his outreached hand knocking you back into a chair as it nearly topples over. It added menace to these hijackers. One problem I did have with the art is sometimes it looks like characters are smiling when they're not (like during a cave-in).
January 2, 2025
An enjoyable Choose Your Own Adventure book in which you can attempt to explore the eponymous abandoned mine to locate gold that is rumored to be located therein, to pay of back taxes owed by your grandmother. I am sure that the ghost's warnings are completely unfounded, as nothing can go wrong when wandering around an abandoned mine, especially one that is allegedly rigged up with explosive charges.
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