Waterstones Fighting Fantasy: The Port of Peril
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Price: £7.99
Brand: Waterstones
Description: PART STORY, PART GAME - PURE ADVENTURE! A new way of telling stories and in many ways the birth of modern gaming, these books captured the imaginations of a generation of kids - it's great to think that a new generation are going to be similarly captivated bestselling author Charlie Higson In this addition to the multi-million-copy-selling Fighting Fantasy series, YOU - the hero - must travel all over Allansia - from old haunts Darkwood Forest to Port Blacksand - on a dangerous quest. What starts as a treasure hunt soon takes a darker turn, with the potential return of the most terrifying foe of the original books, Zanbar Bone, on the increasingly dark horizon. ABOUT THE SERIES The multi-million copy globally bestselling choose-your-own-adventure series is repackaged and reignited for a brand new generation of children. All you need is a dice and you can choose which way the story goes Be careful - the main character can die at any point! 20 million copies sold worldwide in 32 languages Perfect for kids who love gaming A great way to encourage children away from gaming on screens and get them back into reading books!. Waterstones Fighting Fantasy: The Port of Peril - shop the best deal online on thebookbug.co.uk
Category: Books
Merchant: Waterstones
Product ID: 9781407181295
Delivery cost: 2.99
ISBN: 9781407181295
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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.
