Ultimately, I didn’t feel that my particular Choose Your Own Adventure book really created that many adventures for the reader. My final mapping revealed that the book had only eleven possible endings (two in which I died, nine in which I lived). When I went back to my map and read the endings, none of them seemed to resolve any of the issues that the beginning of the book addressed. In the endings where I lived, the author gave my character an exit point- but no real conclusion to the narrative. Instead, he concluded that the protagonist would go on to avenge the death of his family, continue his search for his hero, or wait around until the war in China was over. Each possible narrative was left open-ended. Judging by other’s books, I think my choice (“Chinese Dragons”) was one of the more rare ones in terms of its short length. Everyone else’s books seemed to have more endings and more paths to choose from.