What's the Name of That Book??? discussion

some supernatural creature
an aeroplane trip
a temple
In the book's foreword there was something along the lines of this is my umpteenth attempt at writing a book.
Before 2014

You can find a list on Wikipedia of all the books in the Choose Your Own Adventure series. I don’t know if this series matches exactly your time frame, but maybe you’ll find one of the titles familiar sounding or close to the topic you’re looking for.

Thank you, I'll check that out. Though I'm not sure if the book was under the series or a random book.

Chhavi, is this book for kids or teens?

There are various CYOA-type lists on Goodreads. For example:

- Choose Your Own Adventure: Young Readers: https://www.goodreads.com/series/276746
- New CYOA: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
- Twistaplot: https://www.goodreads.com/series/1010...
- Pick-a-Path: https://www.goodreads.com/series/1228...
- You Choose: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/9...
- Modern Choose Your Own Adventure: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/7...

I was ten (in 6th) when I read the book. It was from my school library for 6-12 grade so even though I was kid it could be for teens

Anyways thankyou Kris I'll be sure to check the list out

The Temple of Flame or Crypt of the Vampire by Dave Morris?

It might be the temple of flame the only problem is it was from my school library and did not have a cover... So I'm not able to confirm. If you have the book by any chance does the foreword have the above mentioned sentence and I also think it had a bomb scene where you could chose to save your friend or not.

Hi, sorry Chhavi, it's not your book. I just realised that Temple of Flame is trad sword and sorcery whereas your book has aeroplanes and bombs.

Will keep thinking.

Ok Jon, thanks a bunch

Bump

Any suggestions?

I think it could be 'the deadly shadow' by Richard Brightfield. But there's no copy I can access to confirm the same

The Deadly Shadow is available at the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/deadlysha...

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There's no Foreword in this copy, but it's an early edition. But it's not the author's first novel, either.

For info, "The Deadly Shadow" doesn't have a foreword by the author, so I'm guessing not your book. To be honest, I don't think any of the CYOA series had forewords like that so I reckon it might be a standalone or another series.

The Temple of Flame by Dave Morris - Jon's suggestion:

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