Lee Brown has a penchant for stories where the reader is in control of their fate.  In Ruin of the Dead, a Choose Your Own Adventure book revolving around divinity and doom—and the first book in a planned trilogy—the focus is on the reader-slash-player embodying a cleric in service of the goddess of Justice.  After a long pilgrimage, the very artifact that you have journeyed to pray upon has been stolen by dark forces, and it is up to you to determine the steps necessary to serve your order, and be seen as a champion to your goddess.  Brown had his work cut out for him, having to not only write a great story, but also to develop a branching path with an interface that was tidy, and he’s managed to do both to great effect.

HALF GAME, HALF STORY – ALL ADVENTURE

You are about to embark an adventure which will define you.

What starts off as a peaceful visit to a cathedral of your faith turns into a thrilling journey to battle various evils that guard a mysterious thief. Can you retrieve the stolen holy relic in a race against time before he escapes.

Part Fighting Fantasy, part Jason Bourne where you get to read the action.

You must make the vital decisions of your journey.

WILL YOU MAKE THE RIGHT DECISIONS IN THIS ROLE-PLAYING ADVENTURE.

WILL YOU DEFEAT THE EVIL THAT STANDS IN YOUR WAY.

WILL YOU BE THE HERO.

Paper, a pencil, and 1 six dice is all you need to make this journey.
A genre loved by young and old alike
A great way of encouraging children from screens and reading books
Perfect for the lone adventurer that loves fantasy realms

When it comes to Choose Your Own Adventure stories, the book usually asks more of both the writer and the reader, but Brown keeps things simple and elegant, ensuring that the player doesn’t have to do too much on their end.  Just a bit of paper, a pencil and a six-sided die, or a computer to keep your notes and do some randomization checks is all you need.  If you think you have what it takes to fight against the undead and savage lizardfolk that threaten peace and order, give Brown’s fun adventure a try.  Check out Ruin of the Dead, Book 1 of the Cleric Trilogy on Amazon today!

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One of the first things you’ll notice about Shawn Nichols is that he has a lot to say.  In his newest book, Book of Forsaken Futures: MAGI (Books of Forsaken Futures 2), that’s readily apparent, as the book clocks in at over a thousand pages in Kindle format.  None of that is superfluous, mind you.  Nichols presents just the right amount of exposition, and dialog, and action, and manages to deliver a book that marches forth at a wonderful pace.  Moreover, he does so with a book that hops in many different directions.  Choose Your Own Adventure stories have a chance to go off the rails at any point, but Nichols built his tracks sturdy and strong, and they’ll entice readers all the way to the end, no matter which ending they’ll get.

Fate is breaking and you choose when and how. From the opening, the choice of one man breaks fate around a random infant, Hale. His choices break fate further upon those around him, until reality itself is at risk of breaking. Take the perspective of over 50 characters in an adventure to choose your fate. In a world of colliding magic and science, every choice brings a different perspective and a different adventure. May your choices bring you the greatest adventure.

It’s always great when you can return to enjoy a book a second time.  With Nichols’s excellent book, readers can come back to it again and again, learning what choices they may have skipped out on, and how things might have been different if they had taken a chance.  On top of that, they’ll get a chance to see the author’s gripping, exciting prose executed in other sequences.  The best news is that if you enjoy the world that Nichols unleashes here, he’s got more on the way, in a bit more of a linear fashion that explores it in some other ways.  But you should start here, as it’s a great introduction to his writing craftsmanship.  Check out Book of Forsaken Futures: MAGI (Books of Forsaken Futures 2) on Amazon today!

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