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. When online personas take the place of private identities, what happens when those societal constructs disappear? These narrators were so excellent, they sounded like entirely different people from interview to interview.

One journalist seeks to shed light on the truth behind the rumors and stories in the wake of the disaster and what led a group of mostly college-age students to such brutal and violent actions. It feels like every horror movie filmed and book written after The Blair Witch Project came out 20 years ago uses this gimmick and dude, it's getting REALLY REALLY OLD.Seriously, you had to wonder how long these young adults had been plotting imaginary murders in their heads, they took to it so quickly. Fantasticland (think Disney World) is a popular kid's theme park in Florida that is rendered isolated after a hurricane. i have an overdeveloped work ethic that makes it seem like the most sensible thing to do in this situation is protect thy inventory with bow and arrow, 'cuz that's your job, even if no one's gonna give you a raise for it. I think without rules and people in charge, things would definitely get a little crazy, but then you add in a horrible natural disaster / deadly weather.

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. Sanity Slippage: Played out as a slow burn where aside from the Pirates, the tribes more or less got along. In my view, if a bunch of people stuck in somewhere for about a month, they will stay together and try to survive. When Brock Hockney, the leader of the Pirates, Mercy Killed him it caused the other employees to realize the life-or-death situation they were in.Both of the narrators were excellent, which is good because each one of them voiced many characters throughout the tale. I-dunno-what-I-just-read-but-I'm-pretty-sure-I-loved-it stars for the audiobook version narrated by all-stars Luke Daniels and Angela Dawe.