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Overall, many people may enjoy this book, it just was not for me due to subject matter that I don't care to read. Creature these crazy people summoned or whatever to eat peeps every seven years so they could have great lives. But as the people around her begin disappearing one by one, Mack realizes this competition is more sinister than even she imagined, and that together might be the only way to survive. Mack is our primary protagonist, but many of the competitors get developed as we spend time in their minds during the game.

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We at Penguin Random House Australia acknowledge that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are the Traditional Custodians and the first storytellers of the lands on which we live and work. When contestants begin to disappear and tragedy strikes those remaining, it is seeking that Mack must learn to be equally good at, if she is to discover what is really occurring and make it out alive. I'm not so much into creature features anymore but this was exceptionally well written and I cared enough about some of the characters that I enjoyed the ride from beginning to end. The author does a good job of quickly showing each person’s defining characteristics, and although there is a large number of characters the narrative doesn’t become confusing. It was an abandoned Amusement Park, closed after a five year old girl vanished within, her patent leather shoe caught on the branches of a topiary.

So not only did the book skip what would have been the best part of the ending, what they kept didn't make a lot of sense. LeGrand is a young man excommunicated from his isolated, cultish community and desperately worried for his vulnerable sister left behind.

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Without going into too much detail, I will say that the author’s Mormon upbringing plays as much a role in this story as it does in MM. let us leave unexamined what it says about me that i use competitive murder books as escapist entertainment. Once again, I’m unfamiliar with the conventions of the genre, so I can’t speak to what has or hasn’t been done before, but I found this book excelled as a character study. This was a horror story blended with the supernatural yet it touched upon many current social issues that all of society is dealing with today as in violence, domestic abuse, murder, racism, physical appearance, bigotry, PTSD, economic class etc which were wonderful assets brought into a horror story. Even though everyone is desperate to win--to seize their dream futures or escape their haunting pasts--Mack feels sure that she can beat her competitors.Cell phone reception is blocked by the local geography – most annoying for the social media influencers in the group – and its not clear how the event will be recorded. She excels at staying hidden and has been doing so her entire life, since the time the rest of her family were taken from her, and sees no reason why she should fail at doing so now. Esses elementos de: trancados em um lugar sem celular, precisarem assinar contratos, um parque abandonado no meio do nada e a tensão de precisar se esconder e depender apenas de barulhos e pequenas espiadas, criam uma tensão e uma vibe sinistra e bizarra. It's a speculative supernatural horror, so if you enjoyed The Cabin at the End of the World, this book is up your alley!

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and all they have to do to win is scatter and stay hidden from dawn to dusk within the crumbling, overgrown amusement park until one person remains. Her father butchered his family, only Mack survived, and she did so by taking her younger sister’s favourite hiding place. I won't give anything about the ending away, I'll just say trust your gut when certain characters make an appearance.Had the author limited the book to two or three viewpoint characters, spent more time on development of the important characters, and actually wrote a complete ending this could have been a decent read. Fourteen young and very lucky contestants are selected to vie for the ultimate prize of fifty thousand dollars. Entering through the wrought iron gate, they then proceeded to the base camp pavilion, a cement floor under a corrugated roof. When I saw that the book was being developed into a graphic novel I might have screamed and spun around in a circle and it's worth every ounce of excitement I had.

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Mack needs that 50 grand and if she has to hide to escape her old life, well that’s something Mack knows she can do. Não foi perfeito, mas eu também não consigo parar de pensar nele e na ambientação criada na minha cabeça.ugh, I just rolled my eyes and plowed through to the end to see if things would be redeemed, but unfortunately they really weren't. Due to this, it was not a fun reading experience going back and forth like that with no real rhyme or reason with characters I already forgot about or didn’t know who they were because again, they just weren’t worth remembering. Tive um pouco de dificuldade de me conectar no começo, porque a escrita da Kiersten parece estar um pouco mais simplória comparado a outros livros que já li dela. There is a lot of money on the table, and they all are motivated to play, to win, and to change their lives.