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| Series: | Choose Your Own Adventure #76 | Contained In: | Choose Your Own Adventure Box Set (73-77) | Translated Into: | La "Mona Lisa" ha desaparegut! (Catalan) ¡La "Mona Lisa" ha desaparecido! (Spanish) | Author: | Ramsey Montgomery | Illustrators: | James Warhola (cover) Gonzalez Vicente (interior) | Release Date: | February, 1983 | ISBN: Click to shop... | 0553270044 / 9780553270044 |
| Length: | 118 pages |
| Number of Endings: | 22 |
| Summary: | The Mona Lisa has been stolen, and the French authorities have asked you to help them find it. |
| Demian's Thoughts: Click here for more reviews by Demian | I assume that Ramsey Montgomery is a relative of R. A. Montgomery; although this is not explicitly mentioned in the "about the author" section, the fact that he was college-aged when he wrote this book suggests that he was following in the footsteps of Andrea Packard. In any case, I found this adventure to be rather disappointing mishandling of the mystery genre. Theft of the Mona Lisa is hardly an original idea, and the author does little to make the storyline intriguing or to flesh out the various locations visited during the course of the tale. This essential lack of interesting writing is made worse by the book's interactivity. The reader is left in the background all too often, working from other people's clues and often stumbling upon the thieves only to be shoved aside so that the authorities can take care of things. Perhaps this is more realistic than usual for the series, but it doesn't make for very good reading. Without the feeling that the reader is actively solving a mystery, a book like this seems rather pointless. |
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