Magic Master

Choose Your Own Adventure #122

by Edward Packard, Frank Bolle (Illustrator)

Visiting the house of a famous magician with the hope of discovering his powers, the reader is asked to enter the seemingly empty house and take a look around.

Genres: Gamebooks, Choose Your Own Adventure

116 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 1992

About the author

Edward Packard attended and graduated from both Princeton University and Columbia Law School. He was one of the first authors to explore the idea of gamebooks, in which the reader is inserted as the main character and makes choices about the direction the story will go at designated places in the text.

The first such book that Edward Packard wrote in the Choose Your Own Adventure series was titled "Sugarcane Island", but it was not actually published as the first entry in the Choose Your Own Adventure Series. In 1979, the first book to be released in the series was "The Cave of Time", a fantasy time-travel story that remained in print for many years. Eventually, one hundred eighty-four Choose Your Own Adventure books would be published before production on new entries to the series ceased in 1998. Edward Packard was the author of many of these books, though a substantial number of other authors were included as well.

In 2005, Choose Your Own Adventure books once again began to be published, but none of Edward Packard's titles have yet been included among the newly-released books.

Reviews

[Josiah · Rating 2 out of 5]

One of my earliest Choose Your Own Adventure favorites, I rate Magic Master at least two and a half stars. The wide variety of exciting, fully developed story paths has kept me coming back to this book year after year. I appreciate how differently things can turn out depending on whether you enter the Great Bonza's mansion uninvited; it's amazing how much hinges on one crucial decision. As usual, Edward Packard's storytelling hits the mark.

[Ivy K · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is another book I enjoyed while in Middle School. I can still recall in detail one of the scenes at the beginning... and it's been 14 years.

[Sheila Read · Rating 5 out of 5]

the adventures that I went through when I was bored I just read these books over and over again you would never get to the end of the story.