Maze of doom; The haunting of spook house by George Ivanoff
You Choose Flip Me series. Random House, 2015. ISBN:
9780857983862
(Age: 8-10) Recommended. George Ivanoff's You Choose Flip me
Books won a children's' choice YABBA Award in 2015. These chose your
own adventure style novels are fast-paced adventures set in a creepy
funfair and a haunted Spook House. Every choice you make determines
your fate; each decision is fraught with danger and tinged with
excitement. How long can you stay alive? is it possible to survive
the horrors that await you! Do you rush ahead at your own peril or
carefully consider each option, with a cause and effect, a brave,
bold move or a more careful one?
The Maze of Doom is filled with shadowy corridors, a creepy
gatekeeper Soldeed and a teenage girl desperately looking for her
lost boyfriend. Along the way, there's an antique fortune telling
machine, are Madam Zoltar's chants worth listening to? Fiery
dragons, a treacherous drawbridge, a dense hedge maze, there are so
many dangers and obstacles to overcome.
The Haunting of Spook House explores the creepy neighbourhood
house built by an archaeologist in the 1800s, who's wife came home
to find him turned into a mummy. Once again, every decision made is
surrounded by danger; there are spiders, a ghost hunter, time travel
and friends playing tricks. If you come to a disastrous end, there's
always a chance to start again.
Exciting fun and recommended for readers from 8-10.
Rhyllis Bignell