This paragraph is a bit apropos-of-nothing, but I'm putting it in because I think the blurb makes FantasticLand sound a bit like a tedious anti-social-media parable. Even though the hundreds of employees stranded there have everything they need to survive comfortably, shortly after the storm, they start forming these crazy groups and they engage in these bloody battles with each other. Due to the way it was built, the rain note Said to be 24 inches caused two small lakes that keep those trapped inside from leaving.

this is all reported from a member of the pirates, and not the leader himself, so there's a possibility there's more to it than that, but from what is explicitly on the page, it's illogical. 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. Through a series of first-person interviews, the reader learns of the circumstances and (sometimes twisted) perspectives that led to the horrific scene found when help finally arrived. Told in a series of interviews, there were plenty of characters to go around and the narration really added depth to the interview style format.Cut off from phones and the internet, they are left with nothing to do and it turns out, there's nothing scarier than a group of bored teens.

We better get out of here, because these kids are going to lose their minds and start killing each other" an adult actually said something along those lines. Isolated from the outside world, rescue finally comes over a month later to find a scene of horror: heads on pikes, blood and viscera in the streets, and over a hundred dead.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. Total chaos happens- dead bodies hanging from high above, murder, cannon and bow and arrow injuries, and branding are just a few of the gruesome stuff contained in this book. In the FantasticLand park itself, already a surreal mix of historical and pop-cultural structures, characters, and imagery, then mostly flooded and empty under rainy skies, what happens when less-than-fully-formed identities are forced to endure a month with no external contact? At the risk of sounding like a pessimist, human nature being what it is, a lot of the behavior was unnecessarily appalling and disturbing. Ok, so first of all, this book is told through first-person interviews with FantasticLand survivors.

A few hundred park employees of FantasticLand have been contracted to ride out the storm within the park's confines to guard against looting. I've just read the whole description on the Goodreads page, and I think the idea of this being a novel which 'probes the consequences of a social civilisation built online' is overemphasised. Like attracted like and many soon proved they could not be trusted - with food and water sources and with the lives of the stranded others around them.By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. Cosy Catastrophe: Jason Card, a retail cashier, was the only one out of 300 people to make the trek to one of the hotels near the park and spent almost the entire time there in relative comfort and out of the on-going conflicts between the tribes.

Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Events in the book show that the actions of some seemingly unrelated people have bigger consequences down the line with some never knowing about it after the fact. The maintenance workers decided to knock over the Exclamation Point with some TNT they found, in the hopes that the park's main landmark falling over would get attention from the outside world and show something was wrong.

Told through a series of interviews after the tragedy, FANTASTICLAND tells the tragic story of what happened to a bunch of internet dependant teens and young adults, when the amusement park at which they were employed, is flooded and isolated after a huge hurricane. Shout-Out: As these are personal interviews of employees, most in college, they used pop culture references in relation to the events of the book. finally got around to reading this one and now i double my advice to those of you in theme parks - get OUT! I love curling up under a fluffy blanket with a nice cup of hot apple cider and reading a horror story.