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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.
it's already got me hooked via the interview writing style. Really enjoy this, much in th same way I enjoyed WWZ. Hopefully keeps that up!
Okay, I don't typically like interview format in books. But it seems to really work for this one. I am enjoying each interview like each one is a mini story in the bigger book.
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This was an interesting take on what happens when disaster hits. I can see just how chaos can rain down on the victims of a disaster. I see a glimpse of that every time a hurricane veers our way here in Florida. People seem to lose their common sense when disaster strikes, and will fight for their own survival in every which way they can. If you think that interview format is not for you, I also thought this and enjoyed this read more than I expected to.
This book will suck you in and you will not want to stop until the book ends.
Absolutely loved this book both plot and style wise.