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Major Detours

A Choices Novel
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Major Detours by Zachary Sergi follows the adventure of a group of teenagers embarking on a road trip to visit mystical sites in the American Southwest. As they navigate the open roads, the group is guided by a mysterious tarot deck, leading them to unexpected challenges and self-discovery. The story combines elements of friendship, mystical guidance, and personal growth, making it an engaging read for young audiences.
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You might enjoy this book if you're captivated by stories filled with intriguing choices that lead to varied outcomes. With its interactive narrative style, it offers an engaging experience where you become part of the story, making decisions that shape the journey. If you appreciate tales of discovery with a sense of adventure, this will appeal to your curiosity and enthusiasm for children's literature.

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Major Detours

Tarot meets road trip in this updated version of the choose-your-own-adventure format about two tarot-loving teens on a summer road trip that quickly becomes a high-stakes scavenger hunt to unravel the mysteries behind their rare tarot deck.

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All roads lead back to you in this mystical YA about the powers of friendship, self-discovery, and tarot.

Before heading their separate ways for college, four best friends—Amelia, Chase, Cleo, and Logan—decide to take an occult-centered road trip inspired by Amelia's grandma and the unique tarot deck she and Chase inherited from her. However, their trip full of visiting occult shops, bonding, and sightseeing takes a major detour as the friends discover that their tarot deck is more valuable—and coveted—than they could've ever imagined.

As the friends race to finish this mystical scavenger hunt across the West Coast and uncover the mysteries of their tarot deck, it is you who will decide where to go next, how to handle Chase and Amelia's friendships and romantic interests, and how the story will end.

With an alternating dual narrative and black-and-white illustrations included throughout, readers will move forward through the plot (no jumping back and forth) by making a combination of character-focused and plot-focused decisions that will offer four possible final and romantic endings. For fans of classic choose-your-own-adventures, tarot, and speculative fiction, this unique interactive novel offers readers a chance to step into the shoes of the characters and, with the different endings, encourages them to go back and reread to discover how things could have been different.

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Major Detours by Zachary Sergi is lauded as an engaging read for older teens, filled with adventure, mystery, and puzzles. Critics highlight its introspective elements, likening the journey to the inspirational tarot. The novel offers a fresh spin on the theme of adventure choice, providing both fun and self-discovery, and is praised for its innovative storytelling and wonder.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780762471416

Publisher: Running Press,U.S.

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 30 September 2021

Country: United States

Imprint: Running Press Kids

Illustration: 34 Black-and-White Spot Illustrations

Audience: Children

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 32.0mm

Width: 148.0mm

Height: 214.0mm

Weight: 420g

Pages: 320

About the Author

Zachary Sergi is a fiction and television writer, as well as a pioneering author of the interactive fiction genre. His interactive online novel series, Heroes Rise and Versus, have sold over 350,000 copies and has created a global fan base. He lives in Los Angeles, where he fell into writing his interactive series for Choice of Games and began his career as a TV writer. He is always striving to write stories that blur genre lines, pushing the boundaries of format, and are full of humor, emotion, and genre flare.

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