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FantasticLand

By: Mike Bockoven
Narrated by: Angela Dawe, Luke Daniels
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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.

©2016 Mike Bockoven (P)2017 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.

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fantastic

wasnt expecting a interview like book was suprising amazed and voice actors did a great job

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Style of world war z

This is a series of fictional interviews that unravel an event from diffrent points of view. Its masterfully done.

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Left me spiralling

This book is so enthralling and left me spiralling about myself and the characters. I had to keep reminding myself this didn’t actually happen. I would highly recommend the audiobook version of this book. It just made it feel so real

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Fantastic Everything

Great concept, great narrators, great stories. Was one of the best Audiobooks I've listened to fullstop.

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A different listen

I hound it hard to get into initially but stayed the course the voice actors are amazing

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Excellent

Excellent book. A quick listen as it hooks you in. The story is laid out by people being interviewed. It is a very good way to tell this sort of modern Lord of the Flies kind story. This feels like it will be picked up for a tv series eventually.

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A new favourite? Perhaps

Loved it. great voice actors, gripping story, kept me listening. Will try author again, soon.

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A bit different

This was a bit of a new story for me. Pretty well written & with a easy flowing storyline. I did find it a bit hard to keep up with who was who but that might be more on me than the writer.

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The performance of the voice actors was just *chef kisses*

Loved every second of this novel, the story was so well done and the voice actors really nailed it. The emotion they conveyed made the whole thing seem so authentic and believable which added so much texture to the message behind the story.

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Mockumentary meet Lord of the Flies

I was surprised this this read more like a documentary and was initially concerned that I would DNF it as I find most faux documentary stories fall short.
But this book had me hooked. It wasn't insanely graphic, and it was believable enough to suspend reality.

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