When Hurricane Sadie hits the Daytona Beach area, storm surge isolating the park, the workers project their inner fantasies and fright onto outer darkness.Īt this point, the author might have opted to tell the story from some remove-like third-person POV.
Admin policy forbids employees, most of whom are twenty-somethings, from carrying electronic devices.
Some 264 pages later, I found I had run out of text.įantasticLand chronicles 35 days of hell on Earth in the eponymous theme park, a Disneyesque icon opened in 1970s Florida. Lord of the Flies meets Battle Royale.” I took a deep breath, sighed, and began reading. Usually-when promotional materials originate with mid-size to large publishers-the author has no hand in the matter. Having read FantasticLand, I'll not forget the name.Īs someone who reads and reviews a lot of books, I've learned that press releases, synopses, back-cover copy and the like are not reliable indicators of quality. Prior to receiving his debut novel, I'd not heard of Mike Bockoven. The leader of the Pirates (the most aggressive tribe) bragged about "harnessing the power of boredom, what with the teenager/20-something employees being without cellphones or internet.īut by far the most chilling part was this one man who decided to shack up in a hotel that's within the park, and he's playing cat and mouse with two enigmatic killers in pig masks who are unaffiliated with any of the tribes.Skyhorse Publishing trade paperback October 2016 The interactions and how events unfolded felt very real, as were the media's reactions to the events in the amusement park. The format was somewhat unusual as it took the form of a series or interviews with numerous fictional people, giving us different angles on certain events. Basically a bunch of amusement park employees are locked in the park due to a hurricane, and then when that passes, they all form tribes and start killing each other.
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