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FantasticLand: A Novel

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Either by giving them the same idea to protect themselves or they bought into them too much and followed their lead becoming Serial Killers. Every interview actually feels like an interview and the characters are all obviously different people. My biggest problem with this book was that I often found myself thinking there has to be some supernatural stuff coming up. Yet despite this, there were stories of people helping each other including some passing out from giving all their water to thirsty infants. The Pirates, at least Brock Hockney and the only other who was interviewed, try to present themselves as this claiming that the other tribes exaggerated their crimes and cruelty.

There's no hard evidence of who killed who and everyone defended everyone else who had charges brought against them. it's vivid, wonderfully gory, and as absurd as it seems on the surface - that people would deteriorate into Lord of the Flies lawlessness in under a month - given the circumstances, the participants, the escalation, the book does a good job making it seem like something that could totally happen.

Almost none of them believed it but one employee confirms their existence and they killed at least three people. It felt like the gore was used as a crutch, and some things would've been more effective and believable had he played more with the unreliability of the narrators. Author Mike Bockoven has written this in such a realistic way with gritty details that it truly reads like a compelling real-life documentary. I couldn't help but think that in a situation like this, where a group of people are left stranded somewhere for a long time, the logical thing to do is stay together, then find shelter, food and water.

The worldbuilding is just so thorough: if the premise sounds stupidly far-fetched, it doesn't feel like it by the time you've taken in the history of FantasticLand and understand its company culture. And 300+ employees of FantasticLand, low on the rescue priority list because they had plenty of food, water and shelter, left to fend for themselves and await help to arrive. Not a single person remembered Fantasticland was scheduled to run a horror-themed event, or put together that the Freaks would have access to those props. With no help quick to come their way, the isolated individuals organised themselves into groups and attempted to assert some sense of social hierarchy into their new community. If you're running a script or application, please register or sign in with your developer credentials here.

Nearly every character exists in that morally gray space that I love my book characters to exist in. But when the National Guard finally reach the park, they are faced with an unbelievably grisly scene: bodies hung from rides, decapitated heads on spikes, blood and bones spattered and strewn everywhere.

At first things were going well until he restricted access to the control room in the shelter to the disapproval of many and one girl, nicknamed Flynn by the others, in particular. Had I not read this in the middle of the week when I had to get up early for work the next morning, I would have stayed up into all hours of the night just to finish it. These narrators were so excellent, they sounded like entirely different people from interview to interview. Meta: As noted above the book has been described as Lord of the Flies tranplanted to Walt Disney World Disney World]].Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade, Yucca, and Good Books imprints, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in fiction'novels, novellas, political and medical thrillers, comedy, satire, historical fiction, romance, erotic and love stories, mystery, classic literature, folklore and mythology, literary classics including Shakespeare, Dumas, Wilde, Cather, and much more.

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