Series - Miscellaneous Works by Dan Abnett

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Language:	English
Publisher:	Koala Book Company -- Australia
Categories:	Complexity Level : Intermediate (Some Game Elements) Game System : Visual Puzzles Genre : Horror Target Age Group : Older Children

Gamebooks

Treasure Hunt in the Creepy Mansion
Treasure Hunt in the Lost City

User Comments

Dan Abnett's pair of pseudo-interactive works are little more than juvenile picture books illustrated in advance by Alan Baker and then wrapped together in a package that appears to promise gameplay of some sort but fails to deliver. These two books are definitely the work of a publishing house failing to coordinate a basic idea across its creators before launching into the production process, and this shows in the finished product - the sense of "solving puzzles" feels trivial at best, and the overly routine direction of these large-print books leaves little lasting impact. I'd say these books accomplish what they generally set out to do - as in, sell themselves on the basis of short-lived novelty factor for younger audiences - but as far as interactive literature goes, these books don't really deliver on their promise. These books try, oddly enough, to do far more than their ill-conceived premise would let them accomplish, yet even then they don't try to reach for the heights of success that the high-quality production might've otherwise suggested had been the intention. Unfortunately the resulting books are, conceptually, poorly defined and lacking in lasting value, and I can't exactly recommend them for the most part.

--Shadeheart