Bell Park, Youth Detective

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Part of the Bell Park series
Pre-Teen Mystery
2013

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- Anya Johanna DeNiro (Minnesota), November 25, 2013

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Low on choice, but well-written and fun., November 18, 2013
by streever (America)

The writing is good: I'm not typically one to sit through a game with large amounts of text, but the presentation and writing on this game were both very well done.

The story centers on a 12 year old detective investigating a murder, and makes clear nods to how ridiculous the premise is.

The writing is funny and engaging.

This CYOA is low on choice--like many classic CYOAs, it seems to have one outcome. The lack of choice didn't hamper this entry, however--it was still engaging and enjoyable.

I appreciated the formatting of the page--in general, I think the better CYOAs lay out the page in a way that makes it easier to read than the default layouts.

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- Egas, November 17, 2013

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- Wade Clarke (Sydney, Australia), November 17, 2013

- Karl Ove Hufthammer (Bergen, Norway), November 16, 2013

- Sam Kabo Ashwell (Seattle), November 16, 2013

- Mr. Patient (Saint Paul, Minn.), November 8, 2013

- N.C. Hunter Hayden, October 30, 2013

- ifwizz (Berlin, Germany), October 28, 2013

0 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Much text, few choices, October 4, 2013
by Ray

This CYOA is fairly competently written and mildly amusing at first, but gets increasingly boring when the player, or should I say, reader, is bombarded with page loads of text with only a few and useless choices to be made. The story is improbable enough to make me lose attention while at the same time not wacky enough to keep me entertained (unlike the author's earlier piece about bees). So I skipped from about half-way through till the unspectacular end.

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