The Search for the Missing Dwarves by Gorobei

Readers will be rewarded by reading closely! I mean, they will literally be rewarded for reading closely because you end up losing so many of your stars if your magical companion is asleep at any time. I love the Hocus & Pocus concept, and this adventure is full of clever allusions and visual references. If more of these come out, I'll still buy them! Who knows, maybe I just messed up by one panel and it somehow threw off the whole story for me. I love the art too, so it's hard for me to give this too low of a score. This book also adds the 'lose stars' feature, so your actions have more consequences sometimes. Maybe someday I will when my frustration dies down.īut I still love the idea of these and I think they're great for middle-grade readers. There's so much travel I'm not sure I'd want to replay this one anyway. Playing as a team (instead of 2 different paths for the bro and sis in the first book) kills the replayability too. By the time I got to the end of the story, I had no idea how I got there! Then when I did get to panels that moved the plot, I felt like I was missing things. There's no real way to keep yourself from back tracking unless you make a note of every panel you visit. I was tired of doing that before I really even moved forward with the plot. I had to constantly flip back and forth to navigate certain areas like the forest, mine, town and island.

I feel like I spent most of this adventure 'travelling'. It wasn't as successful as the first one for me.

The Search for the Missing Dwarves by Gorobei