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Contained In: Choose Your Own Adventure Box Set (78-82) (Collection)
Translated Into: El misteri de les pedres sagrades (Catalan)
El misterio de las piedras sagradas (Spanish)
El misterio de las piedras sagradas (Spanish)
User Summary: You travel to Florida to help your neighbor's sister paint her houseboat, and soon you stumble upon an adventure....
Demian's Thoughts:

After a long succession of books ranging from plot-light to plot-free, it's good to see an adventure with a real, coherent storyline. In fact, Foley has really gone the extra mile here, providing not one, but two distinct, coherent storylines in one book. It's refreshing once in a while to read a book by an author who does more than simply write random events and glue them together with choices. Unfortunately, though, the fact that the stories used here are well thought-out doesn't make them especially good. The crime story lacks originality and scope, and the fantasy/adventure story is too silly for its own good and also lacking in the originality department. This is a well-made book but not a terribly enjoyable one. It's better than average for the series, but it's not Foley's best, and the reader is likely to forget it soon after reading it.

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Series: Choose Your Own Adventure (1979-1998) no. 79
Item: Mystery of the Sacred Stones
Author: Foley, Louise Munro
Illustrators: Warhola, James (cover)
Morrill, Leslie (interior)
Date: May, 1988
ISBN: 055326950X / 9780553269505
Length: 118 pages
Number of Endings: 18

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