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Why is our adventure so nervous and scattered? We're way less self-possessed than in Journey Under the Sea. Anyway, I believe that's the final ending.

Well, Horton and I sure were a panicky mess during all that! Useless. Lucky the Atlanteans preserved our hides.

Let's dive deeper to avoid the Atlanteans?

This book is kind of a spacey mess. Not always, but often.

What did any of that mean? This ending was sparse and hurried.

We'll hide out from the Nodoors at Atlantean headquarters.

Maybe the Atlanteans should regard their military defense with more gravitas.

It didn't really give us a choice in the matter at all, did it? R.A. Montgomery is losing it a bit here.

I appreciate our successful retreat to Atlantis, but...the story ends just as the true narrative is beginning. Not good.

Staying aboard the Atlantean capsule to face whatever enemy is approaching.

Can we make the music experiment work?

I'm not sure I like the way the citizens of Agyr—and the author—seem to look down on humans. It's off-putting and self-deluded.

Participating in the Universe Games sounds fun.

I'll pull back from Martullus and his suspicious style.

Why is there no good ending with the peace talks involving the Nodoors? I don't like that. Anyway, let's go to the planet Agyr...

I guess there's no good ending once I spot the bombers.

Why did I act so strangely? I threw myself at two people I suspected were carrying a bomb...and they were. That was foolish.

Let's sit in on peace talks with the Nodoors.

A nice ending, with the humpback whales and young dolphins. If that is my canonical adventure after Journey Under the Sea, I'm satisfied.

It's time to be a whale hostage!

I'm not sure if that ending makes sense, but it was interesting. This is such a different book than Journey Under the Sea.

I'm not going to be hostage to humpback whales! It is interesting to see the creatures again, right after I read Your Code Name Is Jonah.

There will be time later to focus on peace relations with the Nodoors. I want Marpex to show me aquatic comms.

I have no desire to be shuttled to the foreign planet Agyr. I chose to stay here and prove the existence of Atlantis.

Let's ignore the strange marine creature and descend to where the entrance to Atlantis might be.

So far the story is a lot smoother, not herky-jerky like Journey Under the Sea. Not that the spastic nature of the original book was a bad thing necessarily.

Cover art by Catherine Huerta, whose work I always liked. Nice color, and a good variety of aquatic creatures. This is the sequel to Choose Your Own Adventure book two, Journey Under the Sea, but illustrated by George Tsui instead of Paul Granger. I look forward to how the story carries the torch forward from that legacy gamebook.