FantasticLand
Books | Fiction / Horror
4.1
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Mike Bockoven
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.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. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.
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Author
Mike Bockoven
Pages
272
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Published Date
2016-10-11
ISBN
1510709460 9781510709461
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"⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️1/2"
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Sher Free✌️
""I didn't know I had it in me, and I left part of my soul in that park, but I got something back." <br/><br/>Fantasticland is a pretty fun story - it's set after a major hurricane, and it's about employees who are trapped in a theme park. The Lord of the Flies craziness starts to happen, and everything devolves into chaos. <br/><br/>This is such an amazing idea for a book, and I loved the creativity. I went through Hurricane Harvey last year...my experience wasn't even bad, and I could still relate to the characters weird feelings after being cooped up for so long, and not really even being able to step outside. <br/><br/>Although I did really like this book, it is a 4⭐ read because certain chapters were pretty boring, and I'm not sure how much they added to the story. I get that it's supposed to be a comprehensive account of all the interviews from people involved with Fantasticland in different ways - kind of like World War Z. Fantasticland has a pretty slow start, but it's good once it gets going. <br/><br/>Overall, this was a pretty enjoyable read. I would read more from Mike Bockoven."
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Emily
"Very realistic look at if things took the worst turn. A more probable Lord of the Flies 4 1/2 ⭐️"
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Ashley Dunn
"This was so good. I loved the way it was written (interview style but still as a story), and it was so intense. Definitely trigger warnings on this. After the first few pages, I really did have to google if this was based on a true story because it was just so well written and eerily realistic. 10/10 all the way around!! "
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Baylee Jones
"I honestly wasn't sure if I'd like this at first. I've enjoyed interview style books in the past, but I thought this one would fit better as a "real time" book, but ho boy was I wrong. By the middle of this book, I was hooked and could not imagine it being written any other way. Such an interesting and intense book, one of the best Lord of the Flies adaptations I've ever read."
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Stephanie Bartley
"Favorite book of all time. Lord of the Flies in an amusement park. It takes all of the factionalism associated with YA works and combines it with a survival account similar to World War Z."
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Aryn Ironwood
"This book was so eerie and realistic, I had to keep reminding myself that it was a work of fiction. Reminded me of Lord of the Flies. "
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Candace Danbury
"Listened to the audiobook and couldn’t turn it off! "
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Allison Henrion
"So good! I couldn’t put it down."
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Jamie Hobbs
"Fantastic story by a fantastic Author. "
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Wyatt Carson
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