You want to be Deadpool? Well, here you go!

I'm old enough to remember the 'Choose Your Own Adventure' books back when I was a kid. It's such fun to see an 'adult' (well, it is Deadpool) version of those now, and with such a rollicking adventure.

The author has 100% captured the voice of the Merc with the Mouth. From the first page, I was laughing, and it was a pleasure to join DP in his shenanigans - even if I doubt I'd survive them in person!

The format worked very well, and I had no problems with the 'back and forth' nature of the text. I think I'd rather have had a paperback than an ebook, but it wasn't too much of an issue - that's just my preference, and possibly some nostalgia for the old Fighting Fantasies that I scribbled in years ago.

I know a Deadpool cosplayer and have already shared this with him. I'll certainly be doing so for the less crazy/interesting among us, especially with interest in the movies failing to wane anytime soon.

As Mr Pool might say, 'Why haven't you gone out and got this yet?!'

This was a great bit of fun - capturing all the silliness of Deadpool with some elements of D&D. The reader has to keep track of their stat sheet which covers three basic aspects of Deadpool’s health and abilities as well as the items being carried and some other abilities. Dice are rolled in order to determine how well he tackles fights and puzzles.
The ebook seemlessly takes the reader through their journey with decisions leading them to different chapters.
Technically I didn’t finish this book as after a couple of hours of it I died having failed in a battle and had no option but to start over again. I suppose I could have taken note of the last chapter i was at and tried again but this seemed to be against the purpose of the book. It felt like this was a very difficult fight to win - having to score more than 15 from two dice rolls with the value of two stats added on top. My stats at that point were down to 2 each so my maximum score was 16 so I was doomed to fail. It feels like there should maybe be more chance to improve these stats or the reader should be given a warning before heading into battles (and then go back to their previous location). But then I guess Deadpool would just blunder into such a fight and see what happens.
I think I’ll have another bash at this in future as it was very enjoyable and i can think of several different paths I could have taken.
Good fun and i think I’ll buy the paperback for my dad’s Christmas.

From the outset, you might think this is just a "choose your own adventure" type book for teens and adults but you would be greatly mistaken.

You do choose what actions you and Deadpool take but there is a fairly sophisticated point system that allows or denies certain choices; as well as a few challenging puzzles.

It pretty much boils down to a really fun one man dungeons and dragons with over the top humor of Deadpool. A portable tabletop RPG if you will.

I would greatly recommend it and give it 5 out of 5.

Okay, if you've been looking for a slightly more interactive Marvel experience, then I have news for you. You Are (Not) Deadpool is a Multiverse Missions Adventure Gamebook, which I'll admit is quite the mouthful. Essentially, what this means is you get to play along, taking notes, rolling dice, and seeing what sort of adventure Deadpool is going to find himself on.

Deadpool is the ultimate agent of chaos. Anyone in the Marvel universe (any of the universes, actually) should know that. So you'd think Matt Murdock (aka Daredevil) would have known better than to offer him a straightforward (read: boring) job/contract.

That may have been a mistake, as it takes no time at all for Deadpool to start shaking things up. Using his fourth wall-breaking abilities, Deadpool quickly realizes that this adventure is too calm and needs a healthy dose of Deadpool chaos.

Okay, wow. This is not an experience I've had the luxury of enjoying before. You Are (Not) Deadpool is not so much a novel as it is a fully immersive experience, especially if you've got a vivid imagination.

If you're still having trouble picturing the concept (it takes a bit, I get it!), consider it to be similar to a Choose Your Own Adventure game, only with Deadpool chaos and flare. Make a bit more sense.

Essentially, you're a random character that has been stuck next to Deadpool, meaning that you have to put up with all of his shenanigans (and hopefully survive everything that follows). That was a bit of a surprise, but honestly? I think I liked it more this way. Playing as Deadpool's perspective might have been fun, but for some reason, this alternative just made more sense for my brain. Think of that what you will. Though in hindsight, I suppose the title sort of gives this fact away, huh?

Even if this sort of game/reading format doesn't normally interest you, I can promise that any fan of Deadpool will appreciate Tim Dedopulos' take on Deadpool. He nails the banter perfectly, if I may say so. So, go give You Are (Not) Deadpool a try!

Thanks to Aconyte and #NetGalley for making this book available for review. All opinions expressed are my own.

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Content Warnings
 
It’s a Deadpool book so its content warnings should be pretty self explanatory, however, for those not in the know (how do you not know Deadpool? What’s wrong with you?) this book has plenty of blood, guts, threats of, and actual, violence, and a particularly disturbing game of Jenga.

Blurb…

Deadpool forces you to defeat predictability (and sure, okay, some bad crime lords along the way) through mini-games and puzzles in this new adventure gamebook with Marvel’s “Merc with a Mouth”
 
 
Things seem weird, even by Deadpool’s standards, when Matt “Daredevil” Murdock offers him a profitable – nay, straightforward! – contract. No chaos, no unpredictability, no funny business… C’mon, Murdock, that’s just not Deadpool’s style. Sensing something is up, Deadpool grabs an innocent bystander off the street to confuse any semblance of predictability the universe is trying to force on him. Good-hearted mischief spirals into a sinister plot full of impenetrable bank vaults, crime lords stroking their (lack of) mustaches in very evil ways, and an assortment of offensively stylish suits that are begging to be blown up, Deadpool discovers his choices are no longer his own – they’re yours!
 
You Are (Not) Deadpool is a Marvel adventure gamebook from Aconyte, written by Tim Dedopulos. Throughout the book readers… players… playders… (I’m going with readers, but playders sounds really Inbetweeners-y, and I’m drawn to it strongly!) find themselves faced with choices, games of chance, and puzzles to further the story, or end it abruptly if you make a mistake (I haven’t died yet. I’m good at this super-hero malarkey). If you imagine the Give Yourself Goosebumps book line and D&D had a lovechild, you’d be close. From the very first page the story moves at a brisk pace (painful number puzzles aside - I hate maths) and flows nicely. Throughout my plays I didn’t find there to be a great deal of difference pace wise between chosen paths, I haven’t come across any ‘slow boring safe’ path, they have all moved at a suitably super-hero-y pace. Which is great for my ‘short attention span’ husband. Keeps him occupied with puzzles and not bogged down with anything too story heavy, so it would be great for anyone with attention deficit disorders. Obviously, it’s Deadpool, so more suited to older viewers, but would be good for anyone who wants to work on their maths skills - I’d love to work on mine but I think I may have dyscalculia as numbers move and dance. I’d be lost if I hadn’t had my times table drilled into my memory at school in the early 80’s!


Tim Dedopulos has done a fantastic job throughout You Are (Not) Deadpool with his characterisation of characters, especially Deadpool. Deadpool’s wise cracking and gung ho approach to superheroing is not only well done and evident from page one, but also becomes so infectious you find yourself picking the more ‘Deadpool’ like options as you progress, forgetting that your character, Number 6, doesn’t have super-human regenerative abilities. Although you usually send Deadpool in first, so, it’ll be alright won’t it? Won’t it…?

The book is set in locales most people are familiar with, such as New York City (never visited but I am re-watching How I Met Your Mother which is basically the same, right?), grounding it in reality and giving a familiarity to it, so when you find yourself in places most of us haven’t been, a shady organisations secret underground lair beneath Central Park for example, there is still that element of realism and relatability to pull you in. Disregarding super-human abilities! Although I never disregard super-human abilities…I’m still holding out hope that my X gene will activate and I can be one of the X-Men. Well, you gotta hope, right?
 
Maths puzzles aside (have I mentioned I hate maths?) You Are (Not) Deadpool is a great read, and I would imagine it will be enjoyed by most super hero fans (Marvel fans for sure…but not Zac Snyder fans, it’s way too cheery for those people !). It will also make an especially great addition to any Deadpool fan’s collection - it’s safe to say that come September 29, I’ll be ordering a physical copy of it ready to give to my Deadpool obsessed husband at Christmas.

All in all a fun romp with one of my favourite characters, maths aside! I’ll forgive him though, because of the joy I’ll see on my husband’s face, and the wife points I’ll accrue when I present him with this on Christmas Day! I’ll give it a ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️, but with an extra ⭐️ floating close behind for the sheer fun of the book - but I’m still holding a grudge about all the maths!
 
I received an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review. Thanks to Netgalley, Aconyte, and Marvel for the advance copy
 
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For more information visit marvel.com. © 2022 MARVEL

This manga was just OK. It was all over the place and not very coherent or funny. I requested the second volume and hope that it will be better.

My misspent youth was filled with Choose Your Own Adventure and Fighting Fantasy gamebooks so the concept of this gamebook was familiar and it was fairly easy to keep track of stats and stuff with the help of that most technical of equipment, a pen and pencil. Or rather the notes app on my phone cos it's 2022 now not 1992.

I really enjoyed the tone of the book - it felt like the Deadpool of the films, and it was very witty and entertaining. It was a fairly lengthy adventure too, which was good. I'd recommend the book to anyone who enjoys the Marvel world, (and maybe fancies a bit of nostalgia for their 1990s childhood.)

With thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for a copy of this book in return for an honest review.

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One of my favourite books when I was growing up was Trial of Champions one of the Fighting Fantasy choose-your-own adventure books. I wasn't the best reader growing up, and struggled quite a lot, but the format of the book made it a lot easier for me, and I was sucked in to the idea of getting to shape the story, and to read it multiple times with different outcomes. Sadly, it seems to be a thing that seems to have fallen out of favour somewhat.

Perhaps it's the rise in popularity of board games and tabletop role playing, but there don't seem to be many books made in that style, and those that are being released are re-releases of older books. The Marvel Multiverse Missions Adventure Books are a new series from Aconyte Books that's going to be bringing these adventure books back; and they're bringing some Marvel characters along with them. One of the first of these releases puts you not in control of a costumed hero, but just a regular person living their lives peacefully in New York. However, when Deadpool decides to rope you into helping him out on one of his missions the fun really begins.

One of the things that this book does that's really clever is to not put you in the shoes of the hero. I don't know if this will be the same for the other books in the series (and think that it would be fun to play as She-Hulk in her book), but for this book it makes things all the more enjoyable. Why? Because Deadpool is too weird a character to take control of. He does strange things, he says bizarre stuff, and he acts pretty wild most of the time; and trying to put a regular person into that kind of character feels like a tough sell. Instead, we get to go along as a passenger, perhaps even a glorified sidekick.

So, readers take on the role o a regular person who's job it is is to kind of just point Deadpool in the right direction and hope things go well. To this end you'll get presented with choices about where to go. There's smuggling going on, so you can choose to check out the docks, to search underground, or see if the illegal weapons are being brought in via air. Over the course of the investigation you'll be presented with different leads to follow, different methods to try and achieve your goals; and depending on the choices you make you can have quite different experiences. I played through the book twice, and ended up sending Deadpool to completely different locations each time.

But this is also a game book, and you will need a pair of six sided dice and a pen and paper in order to keep track of everything. The combat system isn't too difficult, and anyone with experience in complex board games and TTRG's should get on fine with it. There were a few times where it felt like I got a lot of info thrown at me in regards to combat choices and outcomes, but as long as you keep your notes well and stay on top of everything you should be fine. And yes, even on the ebook version it remembers your last entry and you can go back and check out the different options like I know we all did as kids.

I didn't know what to expect from this book, and was excited to see how the team at Aconyte would pull off this challenge. Making any book is hard, but a book that's multiple stories in one and also involves a game system is even harder. So I am absolutely impressed that the book is so well executed, and so much fun. You Are (Not) Deadpool is a book that fans of this format are definitely going to want to check out.

Genre: Choose your own adventure, comic book, action

Disclaimer: Thanks to NetGalley and Aconyte Books I received a copy of this for free in exchange for an honest review.

Thoughts: I grew up with books like Choose Your Own Adventure and Fighting Fantasy, books that allowed you to play a game while reading. I also regularly play tabletop roleplaying games, and so You Are (Not) Deadpool was right up my alley.

It’s hard to really go into detail about the book since everyone will probably read it a little differently. I felt the actual game elements of the book was fantastic. It worked for what the book needed it to be, and the interactive quality of the books were top notch.

The writing of the book was alright. Deadpool is honestly a tough character to tonally get, since it’s easy to either go too hard into slapstick or too hard into edginess. With that said, I think the tone of the book worked well and it evoked everything the way it should be.

While I can say I am more excited for the She-Hulk book, I think this was an excellent book for anyone who has some spare time over a weekend. I really want the company to consider making similar books of its other IPs as well, but time will tell.

Score: 4 out of 5

An adventurous and fun fill tale, for mature or adult readers. Would love to see more of these. Please keep them coming!

Holy Hotcakes!

This was so much fun, a game mixed with a book. As someone who has never played DnD, I feel like this may be a lot like it - utilizing a six-sided die, paper, pen. It made me want to give DnD a shot!

It is also reminiscent of Choose-Your-Own-Adventure books, which I absolutely loved ad a kid. Mix that in with Deadpool's signature sarcasm, along with Marvel history that you don't need to know a lot about, and we have something really special here. There are multiple endings and it's really easy to follow for someone not versed in this kind of gameplaying.

Being part of the story really brought this alive for me, and I definitely recommend it to anyone who is or isn't fully immersed into the world of Marvel or DnD type gaming. It might have made me a convert!

My opinions are my own and freely given.

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I had never heard of gamebooks but I enjoyed this one tremendously. It's a way more interactive version of the old-school choose your own adventure books of my childhood, where you have to keep a record of points, achievements, and stats as you roll dice to decide how parts of the story will develop.
The story itself is a very typical Deadpool adventure where the reader becomes his sidekick on a quest to find who is selling alien weapons to the criminal underground. The premise is composed of the always fun evil corps, big baddie, aliens, goons, secret bases, awkward bank encounters, and many quips by Deadpool.
My one complaint is that the way the book is written, where the reader is the main character who makes the decisions, takes some of the utter craziness that is Deadpool down several notches. It's also a side-effect of being written for younger readers than those who might check out the comics, but I would have liked to get more intense Deadpool violence and inappropriateness. I'm not dissing it, as it remains a very engrossing story with Deadpool and the prerequisite violence and non-sequiturs, but it feels a bit tame to me.

Very happy thanks to NetGalley and Acoynte Books for the fun, interactive read in exchange for an honest review!

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This book has a really fun premise, but it really doesn't work great as an e-book, and I probably would have enjoyed it more in physical form. It feels a little like it couldn't decide who the target audience is, younger tweens or teens, or adults with much more familiarity with the character. Overall, it was pretty fun and seemed well written though.

What makes a Deadpool book a Deadpool book? A choose your own adventure RPG book of course!

Seriously if I could give this more than 5 stars, I would. And when I told my husband about it, he thought it was so cool and I told him he’s definitely getting a copy for himself.

This book is also a bit more of a family friendly version (older kids/teens) as the language is really tame, at least in my adventures I was sent on. So if your kid is into Deadpool but you’re not a fan of the “mouth”, this is a good choice.

I actually thought this book was really awesome. It was funny and definitely reminded me of reading a Deadpool comic. I wasn’t able to use it with a group of friends and only read through it on my own but it I think it would be an absolute blast with friends around. HIGHLY recommended.

Thank you to NetGalley and the Publisher for giving me this eArc to review.

I will be honest, I didn't complete this as I want the physical version of this to use so I can highlight sections and just the fact I think these types of books are better when physical.

The parts I did play on the eArc were fun and engaging!

You are (not) Deadpool is a fun and engaging mashup of Dungeons & Dragons with a Chose Your Own Adventure book plot!

Join Deadpool on a search for alien guns in New York City. Don’t forget your paper, pencil and dice because there is quite a bit of recordkeeping required in your new employment. And don’t worry about being the sixth person in the position. I’m sure the others just found better paying jobs with other superheroes…

Deadpool’s trademark snark is perfectly portrayed here. So is his quick to fight mentality. The lists of achievements and super-achievements at the end increase the replayability of the game, uh, book.

Overall, You are (not) Deadpool is great fun for all ages. You also don’t really need any of the supplies mentioned earlier. I just used my phone’s Notes app and an internet random number generator to play. Super enjoyable! 5 stars!

Thanks to Aconyte Books and NetGalley for a digital review copy of the book.

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Get this, You're sitting by your window, watching the sunset and listening to the honking down below on the street.

Then suddenly a masked man with double sword and guns appears in front of you with an offer to help him save the city by uncovering a secret mission of alien guns flooding the city.

Oh hi there, forgot to introduce myself. I'm Deadpool, you might have heard of me beforehand? Right. So are you in?

You Are Not Deadpool is like a role playing game except you play this game by reading.
And our resident mutant anti-hero needs your help to solve the mystery.

Like every quest book, this book is filled with secret clues and he's the thing you're going to need a paper, a pen, and a dice before you get started.

It's an interactive game book with the readers where you get to pick the choices Deadpool makes and each choice has a different outcome and keeps you curious to find out what would happen next. I personally enjoyed reading this and getting to play the games like a superhero sidekick.

Throughout the game you'll get points from;

Merch; which is scroed from the amount of firearm and physical destruction Deadpool causes.

Mouth; which is earned from Deadpool's unfiltered vocabulary and social interaction with other people.

Focus; which is earned from Deadpool's ability to keep his mind focused on the mission and not get distracted by unicorns and candies. You know how he gets.

Overall, this was an interesting idea on interactive superhero game book for readers who are fans of gaming and comics as well. Like I always say, Aconyte Books Authors have this way of bringing the Marvel character's personalities into the books with ease that you don't miss that familiarity you're used to seeing in conics and movies.

Thank you Aconyte Books and Marvel.

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Completely bizarre ridiculous childlike fun.

Me and my husband read through this and we both felt as though we were 12 again. I absolutely loved going back over and tryinh different scenarios and will definitely be buying a paper format to play with friends!!

This book is no normal book , but a game book but will you get out of the book alive? Well that will be down to you decisions and dice throwing skills. It's going to take you on a very dangerous journey and your going to love it!

This book definitely reminded me of my school days where choose your own adventure books had come out. With multiple outcomes and multiple ways of dying it is just hours of fun. But then add in an eliminate of tabletop gaming and whole experience. This is perfect for all you marvel fans out there and those who love gaming. Stand aside warhammer or risk we have more fun in town.

 I loved the way you could pick up items as you went along to use in fights. I played this book via a kindle and just loved how I could click seamlessly to the next section. With the numbers of chapters in this book you have plenty of options. It was funny how you made the correct choices and the dice failed you so you had to do things differently. It had me working out alot of things which I just loved.

The first go I had I was dead quite soon but that was expected as I was trying to work out the game. But the second time I played for hours and I got to the end with a 2 star finish. I can't wait to try again to see if I can find the ultimate goal of the 5 star perfect finish.

The story of the book was brilliant and cleverly wrote which made it flow really well and I was laughing alone the way. What more could I ask for!

I really do recommend this books for the over 16+ and deadpool fans its just south fun. 

What's better its cheaper than a board or computer game and it takes up less room.

So much praise goes out to the author and publishers for creating this truly amazing fun game book. I just can not wait to find more of the books.

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