The Book Depository Fighting Fantasy: The Port of Peril by Ian Livingstone
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Description: Fighting Fantasy: The Port of Peril : Paperback : Scholastic : 9781407181295 : : 03 Aug 2017 : In this brand new addition to the Fighting Fantasy series, you - the hero - must travel all over Allansia on a dangerous quest. What starts as a treasure hunt soon takes a darker turn, with the potential return of a terrifying old foe on the horizon. The Book Depository Fighting Fantasy: The Port of Peril by Ian Livingstone - shop the best deal online on thebookbug.co.uk
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Product ID: 9781407181295
MPN: 9781407181295
GTIN: 9781407181295
Author: Lostweegie
Rating: 5
Review: Time for a splendid return to adventure book story gaming by the master himself - Ian Livingston. He and Steve Jackson enthralled fantasy and gaming fans with their trademark options and stat based adventure books 35 years ago. The good news is the writer pen still works for the now over old reviewer. Your adventure starts very much with you down on your luck and close to beggar status and a travelogue follows. The narrative is stronger than some of the perfunctory 'go left go right options' that plague imitations. It clever, with plenty of cross references to other FF books to keep the sub creation and secondary belief that you need for fantasy books well and truly going. Overall, a clever story, it reads well, the optioning keeps the interest strong even when you meet you demise and return to start again.
Author: O. R. Peake
Rating: 2
Review: This is a review and rating based on the hardback copy of the book and not for story content. Having both the hardback and softback versions of 'Port of Peril' I am disappointed in the hardback. First let's get the few positives out the way: The cover is lovely and there's a colour map on the back (the same as the black and white map inside) it's signed by Ian Livingstone and limited to 500 copies. That's is it for the differences. The black and white illustrations inside the paperback are identical in the hardback, which is particularly irritating as they look as if they're painted in colour so glossy colour reproductions of these in the hardback would have been relatively easy to do surely? There is no other background information on 'Port of Peril' or the history of Fighting Fantasy a la Wizard's 25th anniversary edition of 'The Warlock of Firetop Mountain'. Misleadingly, Amazon states that the hardback has 400 pages whereas the paperback has 232 so you would reasonably expect some 168 additional pages packed full of information, background etc. I was excited by this but It turns out that the "400 pages" is actually the number of paragraph references, so both books actually have 232 pages. [update: I've actually just double checked this before letting Amazon know about the page numbers discrepancy and it turns out that both the hardback and paperback are wrong! Both are the same but at 288 pages not 232. I've alerted Amazon so this should hopefully be updated for both editions soon.] All in all I cannot recommend the hardcover over the paperback book unless there was only something like £5 difference between the two.
