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Temple Run: Run for Your Life! #2
Doom Lagoon
Temple Run, the fastest-growing mobile game app, is taking its biggest leap yet, jumping into children's books with a series of adventure books just right for middle-graders. Watch out, Indiana Jones, a new hero is in town: you the reader!
Synopsis:Temple Run #2: Doom Lagoon is a hunt for sunken treasure. You are an intern and will be accompanying the curator of an antiquities museum during school vacation on a dive to a newly discovered historic shipwreck. Depending on the choices you make, you will either be stranded at sea, drown, explore the wreck, or discover buried treasure. You decide!
Synopsis:Temple Run #2: Doom Lagoon is a hunt for sunken treasure. You are an intern and will be accompanying the curator of an antiquities museum during school vacation on a dive to a newly discovered historic shipwreck. Depending on the choices you make, you will either be stranded at sea, drown, explore the wreck, or discover buried treasure. You decide!
160 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2014
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January 31, 2019
I died seven times. I liked Castle Chase better . . .
March 8, 2018
Asher (11yo) read.
October 11, 2019
Great fun for tweenies and this adult. My decisions in controlling the adventure led to my demise many times before I found my way through. I love how the author kept a sense of humour about each demise and didn't make it dark.
February 23, 2015
Oh dear, I do so hate giving one star. I'm sorry, but I just didn't like this one.
I picked it up to use with my Chatterbooks group. I wanted something to balance the last choice which was deemed 'girly' by the boys in the group.
They may like this one, but I won't be using it for a session.
This one of those 'choose your own adventure' stories where the reader decides how the story progresses by making choices at intervals. I don't mind them, they can be fun. I like interactive.
Since quite a few choices end in 'your' early demise and the invitation to 'run again' going back to page 8, the reader needs to explore other routes to reach a satisfactory outcome. This is the idea - keep 'em reading. Again, I'm all in favour of something that gets kids reading. I can see that this might appeal to reluctant boy readers especially.
The trouble with this one for me was that there was a choice every couple of pages and they switched back and forth across the 160 pages in a totally random manner. This was fine at first, but I soon lost track of which outcomes I'd followed and which I hadn't. I can imagine that the above mentioned reluctant readers would get frustrated with the frequent 'dead' ends, and give up trying to keep straight the different option routes available. It was just too many splits to manage. And that was reading it in one sitting. I felt like I needed to make notes - page x option 1 taken, page y option 2 taken etc. I tried to be methodical, going through picking option one each time, but after that, should I try option 2 at the first split, or follow the option ones until the last split and then go to to option 2? Long before I'd covered them all I felt like I really didn't care anymore.
Of course, I'm a long way from the target demographic for this, so please, remember it's your choice. [See what I did there?]
I picked it up to use with my Chatterbooks group. I wanted something to balance the last choice which was deemed 'girly' by the boys in the group.
They may like this one, but I won't be using it for a session.
This one of those 'choose your own adventure' stories where the reader decides how the story progresses by making choices at intervals. I don't mind them, they can be fun. I like interactive.
Since quite a few choices end in 'your' early demise and the invitation to 'run again' going back to page 8, the reader needs to explore other routes to reach a satisfactory outcome. This is the idea - keep 'em reading. Again, I'm all in favour of something that gets kids reading. I can see that this might appeal to reluctant boy readers especially.
The trouble with this one for me was that there was a choice every couple of pages and they switched back and forth across the 160 pages in a totally random manner. This was fine at first, but I soon lost track of which outcomes I'd followed and which I hadn't. I can imagine that the above mentioned reluctant readers would get frustrated with the frequent 'dead' ends, and give up trying to keep straight the different option routes available. It was just too many splits to manage. And that was reading it in one sitting. I felt like I needed to make notes - page x option 1 taken, page y option 2 taken etc. I tried to be methodical, going through picking option one each time, but after that, should I try option 2 at the first split, or follow the option ones until the last split and then go to to option 2? Long before I'd covered them all I felt like I really didn't care anymore.
Of course, I'm a long way from the target demographic for this, so please, remember it's your choice. [See what I did there?]
February 13, 2015
Readers familiar with the game Temple Run will enjoy these select your own adventure books based upon the game. Each story is told with the reader as the protagonist, choosing from two or three scenarios each with their own perils. In the second book, Doom Lagoon, you are in the swamp with Guy Dangerous, Scarlett Fox who is a gadget queen, and their friend Pedro Silva searching for a priceless mask when Officer Barry Bones arrives and you don’t quite trust that he is who he says is. Should you trust him? Will you find the mask? You must decide your next steps to survive.
Middle grade readers will enjoy choosing what their character does next. I would recommend this book for purchase to any school or public library.
This book was provided by the publisher for professional review by SWON Libraries.
Middle grade readers will enjoy choosing what their character does next. I would recommend this book for purchase to any school or public library.
This book was provided by the publisher for professional review by SWON Libraries.
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