Kyandreia Jones – Cannonball Read 17

Choose Your Own Adventure for the younger crowd

Choose Your Own Adventure: The Ghost on the Mountain (Dragonlarks) by Kyandreia Jones

November 14, 2024 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

I don’t know about you, but I used to enjoy the Choose Your Own Adventure books as a kid/pre-teen. They were easy and even back then I liked that quick read. That mystery of where your choice would take you. Now they were not my main genre for reading and I moved onto other books, but I always held a small space in my heart for them. And as a bookseller I found them again, but again, I don’t need to read. But I found […]

The year is 1781 and James Armistead Lafayette is a spy!

Choose Your Own Adventure Spies: James Armistead Lafayette by Kyandreia Jones

October 8, 2019 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

The two main story points of this Choose Your Own Adventure Spies are radically different. One story arc has a supernatural aspect that clashes with the realistic one. And while there are amusing moments, Kyandreia Jones’s story is mostly serious. In CYOAS: James Armistead Lafayette, you are James Armistead, a literate slave of Virginia. During a fire (that may have been a diversion to help your friend John escape) where you are trying to save your fellow slaves, you are hit on the head by […]

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