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You and Zora Belladonna have the power to defeat Prudence Deadly, it seems. You get her in both of these endings. And with this one on page 119, I am finally done with Eighth Grade Witch.

Turned into a cockroach by Prudence Deadly, huh? It's not the weirdest ending in these pages.

I like this double-page drawing of the cats (good work, Gabhor Utomo), but once again the story just...stops. No resolution is even attempted.

It's astonishing how confusing this book is. Why wasn't a proper editor assigned to overhaul C.E. Simpson's narrative work?

Can we please get a coherent ending? I want to like this book, but it's trying hard to render that an impossibility.

Not only is every part of this story disjointed, but most of the endings leave off before any real resolution is brought. I hate to say this may be the worst Choose Your Own Nightmare in either iteration of the series, but...

Probably the book's most nightmarish ending, but the graphic horror can't make it into an actual ending. It offers zero closure to the storyline.

Will the police be able to help, or are they in on the paranormal corruption like most everyone else in Graves End, Brooklyn?

Can we avoid the evil librarian and all the other minions at this school by just using the Internet to research Astrid and her ilk?

This story is a hard to follow mess for the most part. I wonder if we can still find a way to counteract the junior coven of witches without Peter's direct help.

What if we ditch the witch angle and follow these two apparent grave robbers, Marty and Trix?

Wild stuff. I fear the author has next to no regard for maintaining internal consistency in her story.

Original Choose Your Own Nightmare had plenty of bad books, but perhaps none were as unreadable as this one.

I guess at that previous decision juncture, no hope was left for a non-horrifying end.

This is one of the most herky-jerky gamebooks I've read. One could get whiplash from some of these sudden, extreme endings such as this one.

We're on my property, so I guess I owe it to Fang to try to save her from the massive, pulsating green spider.

Reality changes so rapidly in this book, there's nothing concrete for the reader to apprehend or base decisions upon. It's hard for me to imagine I'll end up giving this more than one star, but I'm open to a big surprise shift in narrative cogency.

We're trapped into going back to the beginning and confronting Astrid at the cemetery. Well, okay...

This is absurd. The writing is so lacking in clarity, the author has to pause the dialogue for paragraphs at a time to explain what we just heard being said. I grow less optimistic about this book with each turn of a page.

It would be silly to choose this moment to distrust Peter, after letting him take us this far into the catacombs. I have the feeling that would mean an instant end, and not a positive one.

Why didn't anyone else hear the fire alarm, or sense the aggressive flames in the basement library? This book feels weird at times, like the author didn't perform due diligence.

I'll trust a librarian to know the local history of witches in better depth than a general internet search, but yes...I was right. Continuity in this path seems to have totally broken, since it wasn't Felix behind that bush.

A weird ending, and one that resolves nothing. I have doubts continuity will be maintained if I make the other choice and approach the unknown figure beckoning from the bushes.

Especially given the strangeness of the situation, I'll tell my parents about Astrid's photo before I consider phoning the police.

No doubt, I'm calling in a helper for this one. It's weird that Astrid took a secret photo of me in the car before I'd even moved into the house.

I'm more comfortable just listening than joining the conversation on the walkie-talkie, assuming there's no option here to just stop engaging with the overheard words.

I'll again assume this cover is by Gabhor Utomo, as the interior illustrations are. I had never read the three new Choose Your Own Nightmare books in the series revival that lasted 2014 through '16, so here's my first crack at Eighth Grade Witch. I want to see how different it is from Blood Island by Liz Windover.

So…. you die either way? Bull. shit.

La cantidad de errores de edición que tiene este libro hace que mi futuro título universitario llore