The Glorious Train Wreck Mom posted: " Welcome aboard, train wreck. As I'm writing this, I just finished the twelfth book in my 31 in 31 book reading challenge. I have read some great classics - Dracula, Frankenstein, The Lottery, The Doll, Carrie. I read some middle grade horror whic"
As I'm writing this, I just finished the twelfth book in my 31 in 31 book reading challenge. I have read some great classics - Dracula, Frankenstein, The Lottery, The Doll, Carrie. I read some middle grade horror which totally surprised me - CIrque Du Freak. But so far, one book stands out among the rest.
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Since the 1970s, FantasticLand has been the theme park where "Fun is Guaranteed!" But when a hurricane ravages the Florida coast and isolates the park, the employees find it anything but fun. Five weeks later, the authorities who rescue the survivors encounter a scene of horror. Photos soon emerge online of heads on spikes outside of rides and viscera and human bones littering the gift shops, breaking records for hits, views, likes, clicks, and shares. How could a group of survivors, mostly teenagers, commit such terrible acts?
Presented as a fact-finding investigation and a series of first-person interviews, FantasticLand pieces together the grisly series of events. Park policy was that the mostly college-aged employees surrender their electronic devices to preserve the authenticity of the FantasticLand experience. Cut off from the world and left on their own, the teenagers soon form rival tribes who viciously compete for food, medicine, social dominance, and even human flesh. This new social network divides the ravaged dreamland into territories ruled by the Pirates, the ShopGirls, the Freaks, and the Mole People. If meticulously curated online personas can replace private identities, what takes over when those constructs are lost? FantasticLand is a modern take on Lord of the Flies meets Battle Royale that probes the consequences of a social civilization built online.
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This has been sitting in my Kindle since March 2017 and I'm just now getting to it. By the way, if you love your Kindle like I do, you should check out Kindle Unlimited. https://amzn.to/3AGwDrQ Why did I let this one sit there so long? It was so good. When I had to stop it, I couldn't wait to get back to it. I needed to know. What happened? How? Why? But I'm getting ahead of myself.
Picture if you will, Walt Disney World and about three hundred employees. And now make it Lord of the Flies. I love how it's done in a series of interviews. Very much like World War Z. I really enjoyed how there are "author's notes" that include things like notes that were found and even a play by play of a video.
This isn't monsters and creatures. The real horror is how fast we would revert back to savagery. The real monster is us.
What I really liked.
Sad but true, I can see this happening. And even though it's not Walt Disney World, I totally imagined Main Street and Pirates of the Caribbean and Dumbo's Circus. I enjoyed how some characters were absolutely disgusted with themselves with what they had to do. Others, thrived. And there's the horror.
What I didn't like.
If you have a weak stomach, don't read this. You're going to be subjected to smells and sights that will turn your stomach. I'm usually ok with this but my stomach has been warring with my body lately. Aside from that, I felt like the decline of the survival society moved way too fast. I would hope it would take more than a day or two before people were looting, raping, and pillaging.
Who should read this?
Listen, I can be kind of an asshole some days. This would absolutely be a gift I would give to an obnoxious Disney fan. Like myself. Now whether they get mad or laugh, that's on them. Other than that, I would say anyone who enjoys survival horror. Kill or be killed, battle royale type of books. This would be good for them.
My rating
This absolutely gets five out of five broomsticks.
Well, there you have. This may wind up as a read on my way to our Disney vacation next year. Just because.
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