Matt Youngmark

This is my first choose your own adventure book ever so to say that I enjoyed it would be an understatement.

I’m rating it 3.5 stars because I loved the concept of the book and I was hooked onto it for quite some time. Time Travel dinosaur is as absurd as the title sounds. It has a sci-fi angle to it with the protagonist, who happens to be you given the genre, leaps through time and enters several timezones and eras.

It is however not a kids books. It is a nostalgic experience bringing back the fun involved in ‘choose your own adventure’ books but written for a more mature reader base.

I have to applaud the writer and everyone involved in bringing this book to us because having 76 endings, sometimes getting us stuck in a loop and having interlinked chapters is not easy and they pulled it off seamlessly.

The only catch for me is that this book has 76 alternate endings and most if not all are of eternal doom. While I was entertained for about 3-4 hours, it got repetitive and irritating towards the end. Sure, this reflects in how I would never survive an apocalypse due to my poor choices but having a few good alternate endings wouldn’t hurt.… (mer)

Yep, as I suspected when I wrote my notes however long ago it was that I wrote the two notes . . .

The two best scenarios/paths were traveled first. Well, best in that one lead almost immediately to death, and the other lead to great things and repopulating the planet. All the other choices seemed to involve you dying. mmphs. There were some funny bits, but those were not as well taken when the only choices left are bad choices. And you know before hand that they will be. And they are.

Ah well. There's another choice your own adventure book I read that I started off like this here. Two paths. A "best" one and a "bad" one. Then I stopped reading. Because, hey, I "won." Didn't do that this time. My mistake. Not as much fun to "play" when you know that you have already read the best path.… (mer)