FantasticLand: A Novel

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My biggest problem with this book was that I often found myself thinking there has to be some supernatural stuff coming up. 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. Grab your fluffy blanket and drink of choice, and settle in for a tale of human desperation, disaster, and crimes against humanity. By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. in a normal day that's practical, but when a hurricane hits Florida, trapping those employees in the park for weeks, that turned the groups into tribes fighting for their own survival (and enjoyment for some.

I'd also have loved to know more about what the deal was with the Warthogs, although thinking about it, I'm glad a bit of ambiguity was left in. The scariest part is no-one knows who they were, why they went off the deep end, and what happened to them afterwards. There is plenty of "on-screen" violence and the author pulls no punches with the descriptions of what happens in the park, you get to witness what happens sometimes firsthand, and then you get to hear how different individuals not only interpreted what went down but why they thought this stuff was happening as well. One of the scariest scenes in this book didn't even have any violence at all - it involved a cat and mouse game in an abandoned hotel and it was something right out of Stephen King. This starts off a little slow because the first few interviews are concerning what led up to the hurricane and the main events of the novel.

They've got plenty of food and water, and they're supposed to be looking after the park, but things don't quite go to the plan of the exhaustive safety manual designed for this specific kind of scenario. When the National Guard finally came, he had been hiding in an office and didn't leave for two straight weeks.

Kids are getting their hands cut off but let me just mention how annoyed Sally is because she can't check Facebook". Personally, I thought it felt realistic, as people are herd animals who do utterly stupid things in crowds when they think the rest of the group's OK with it (see: Trump voters), and cruelty can sometimes be a more advanced and sociopathic byproduct of cruelty, so I bought it. Then Flynn was killed while the power in the shelter went out and everyone became convinced he did the deed.They all apparently got a deal from the prosecutor partly due to the circumstances surrounding the case. I love curling up under a fluffy blanket with a nice cup of hot apple cider and reading a horror story. A video was released of the National Guard entering the park by one of the soldiers for money and was dishonorably discharged.

If meticulously curated online personas can replace private identities, what takes over when those constructs are lost? Unreliable Narrator: As typical of eyewitness accounts, which can be very unreliable, the interviewed employees give conflicting versions of some events and can only speculate about things they didn't actually witness themselves. Perhaps after the trying year we all had in 2020, stories where people are debased to the lowest of the low just don’t appeal to me anymore. You get the idea that most of what is reported is true, but there is enough contradictions between the tribes, that there does feel like a small part of you is unsure. I guess if your cell phone is dead and you can’t play Clash of Clans you might as well do it for real.The gore truly made me sick to my stomach and the sinister vibes continued throughout, making it, in all, a great horror read/listen. I liked that everyone tried to rationalize their actions and point the finger at someone else, who was "worse. Be forewarned, though, that this is a really dark story, and part of the realism comes from the various interviewees describing things in very graphic detail. Irony: The deteriorating situation in FanatasticLand wasn’t the result of poor preparation on the CEOs’ part but rather an abundance of preparation.