The Forbidden Castle (Choose Your Own Adventure, 14)

by Edward Packard

Book Overview

Choose your fate--and multiple endings--as you quest for medieval gold in this custom-made adventure. U-Ventures(R) Edward Packard's classics, revised and expanded for today's readers! The best in... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0553225154
• Release Date: January 1982
• Publisher: Bantam Books
• Weight: 0.23 lbs.

Customer Reviews

One of the best of a fun series

Most of the best of the "Choose Your Own Adventure" series (in which readers are asked to make periodic choices that help determine the outcome of the story)were written by its originator, Edward Packard, and "Forbidden Castle" is definitely one of Packard's better efforts. (I think his best may have "Who Killed Harlowe Thrombey?") It begins with the protagonist - you - returning to the Cave of Time (book #1 in the series) and ending up in medieval England, where the ruthless King has offered a fortune to anyone who can solve the riddle that will lead to a Forbidden Castle of great power. The riddle is a clever one with a logical explanation, and the quest for the castle proves a dangerous and ultimately rewarding one, though not in the way one might expect. Young readers (say, 3rd-5th grade) will want to read the book many times to discover all of the endings, and enjoy the historical fiction in which sensible decisions really do take you somewhere. The book features appealing illustrations by Paul Granger.

Somewhere South where it is colder...

For those of you who liked "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court," this Choose Your Own Adventure book is for you. A sequel of sorts to CYOA #1, "The Cave of Time," this story written in the series trademark second-person interactive, transports the reader back to medeval England. The reader may end up before this king, and the reader's life may be spared if s/he is able to provide a meaningful interpretation of the poem that provides the clue to discovering the Forbidden Castle. Correct decisions may lead to discovering the castle and ultimately returning to one's own time. Wrong turns may have the reader die centuries in the past.This was one of my favorite CYOA books, along with "Escape" and "Hyperspace."