Book Review: The Friar's Lantern
The Friar’s Lantern by Greg Hickey is a choose your tale adventure novel where you have a chance to win $1,000,000 and judge a man on trial for murder.
If you are not familiar with the choose-your-own-adventure concept, throughout the book, the reader is given options that alter the direction and outcome of the story. As someone on the jury, you must use logic with the information given to you. And in the lab, you are given different tests or tasks. For instance, you play the game Three Card Monte.
I particularly enjoyed this choose-your-own-adventure because it made me nostalgic for my childhood. However, sometimes I felt like the story was a little dry, especially when in the courtroom.
For me, the story really comes to life when you’re in the lab with Dr. Pavlov, with the possibility of winning $1,000,000. In fact, I think the story would have held up better if the book chose to just focus on winning the $1,000,000 and not bouncing between the courtroom and the lab. It felt a little disconnected and confusing at times.
Elizabeth Suggs is the owner and founder of Editing Mee and co-owner of Collective Tales Publishing. When she’s not writing or editing, she loves to dive deep into books (the weirder, the better!), and she loves to take random long walks to unplanned destinations. Check out her recently released book Collective Darkness with eleven other authors. Buy your copy here: www.CollectiveDarkness.com