Tron: Legacy: It's Your Call: Initiate Sequence

by Carla Jablonski

Initiate Sequence is an It’s Your Call book that lets you decide the action of the story.

Genres: Choose Your Own Adventure

138 pages, Paperback

First published October 19, 2010

About the author

Carla Jablonski is the author and editor of dozens of best-selling books for teenage and middle-grade readers. She grew up in New York City, where she attended public schools and the Bronx High School of Science. She has a BA in anthropology from Vassar College and an MA from NYU's Gallatin School, an interdisciplinary program for which she combined playwriting, the history of gender issues in 19th Century Circus, and arts administration. "I wanted to write the play, contextualize the play, and learn how to produce the play for my degree," she explains. "I think I may have been the happiest graduate student at NYU -- I SO loved working toward my thesis."

While still in graduate school she supported herself as the editor of The Hardy Boys Mysteries. "When I interviewed for the job they asked me if I'd ever read the Hardy Boys as a kid. 'No way,' I scoffed. 'Those are BOY books! It was Nancy Drew for me!' Luckily my future boss had a sense of humor. She hired me after I promised I'd read the books if I got the job."

She has participated in the renowned Breadloaf Writers' Conference as well as Zoetrope's All-Story highly competitive writing workshop held at Francis Ford Coppella's resort in Belize. She has taught writing for the children's market, as well as "cold-reading" skills for teachers as part of Project:Read. Several of her books have been selected as part of the Accelerated Reader's program.

She continues to work freelance as an editor for publishers and for private clients, even as she writes novels and creates new series. She also has another career (and identity!) as a playwright, an actress, and a trapeze performer. "I try to keep the worlds separate," she explains about her multiple identities. "The different work I do has different audiences, so I want to keep them apart. But they're all me -- they're all ways of expressing what I'm thinking and feeling -- just in different mediums."

Reviews

[Shannon · Rating 3 out of 5]

I was curious about the one as it has a Choose Your Own Adventure format to it and isin in second person, "You walk here", "You find this", "You say .....", and of course at the end of a few chapters it asks what YOU would do. I also love Tron: Legacy.

I'm curious to explore different narrative styles, but I found with one the second person wasn't really working for me. Even though it says YOU, the character it's following is Sam Flynn ...who is a distinct person and not me, the reader. I wonder if that would work better if I wasn't familiar with the story.

Speaking of, it was fun to walk through the world and story of Tron: Legacy but if you've seen the film you know a lot of what (may) happen depending on the choices you make. There were also way less choices of what to do than I expected. You could go pages and pages without making any choices at all. A lot of the ones that were different than the film made me giggle mostly because it ended in a very quick death of the character.

On a tech note: I ended up reading it on my phone via the Overdrive App which was smoother than reading via Kobo. Both were fine, but I preferred reading via the phone.

Overall, a quick read with some fun nostalgia factors.

[destawaits · Rating 1 out of 5]

Dumbed down to the point where even child me would be disappointed. Forces you on the movie's path with all the nuance and emotion missing, just wants you to move from setpiece to setpiece. Slight deviations from the path lead you either to an uninteresting dead end or back to the linear movie path. Rinzler somehow becomes the mouthpiece for Clu at the portal which makes no sense.

This book had potential to develop deeper storylines like with the rebels Bartik introduced in Solar Sailer Prisoners, resulting in a roundabout way to meet with Kevin but the book literally prevents you from doing that, or with the kid Alex but he just leaves via the portal halfway resulting in you back on the rebel path. Lazily produced book.

[Mariana ♡ readsbymariana · Rating 3 out of 5]

Rápido y entretenido, te dan diferentes finales y eso esta bien.

Mientras vas leyendo te dirigen a varias páginas y en algunas tú decides que hacer.

Me gusto mucho, en un final terminé siendo un repartidor de comida.

[R. Archer · Rating 3 out of 5]

Got this with intent to give it to my friend as a gift but i decided to read through it first. Pretty interesting, tbh makes me wonder about alternate paths that wouldn’t of killed Sam. Also, why is it Rinzler at the end and not Clu? Anyways

[Brooke · Rating 4 out of 5]

A fun little book that’s well written and has enough outlandishly entertaining endings to even keep an adult entertained. Only stopped from giving it 5 stars because it completely ignores Rinzler being Tron. Otherwise, definitely worth the couple of bucks I spent to get it!

[El Usuario · Rating 3 out of 5]

En los ochentas nacieron libros que te ofrecían opciones para continuar tu lectura, te daban opciones y muchos finales alternativos. Para estar basado en la película, este libro está muy bien hecho, no está limitado por la cinta y, aunque tiene sus detalles curiosos, sí dará buenas sorpresas al lector.
Para fans y aficionados, el libro es muy recomndable, además, muy intersante como reto para los niños.