I am a big fan of this author, so I was definitely interested in this one as soon as I heard about it. I loved the premise, and can totally see it as a horror movie that I would go experience on the big screen. While it takes place in an abandoned amusement park, really that is not what the place they are has always been, and it really isn’t even the amusement park that is the horror of the story. There is something killing there, older than the park, and probably older than even the land itself.

The way the characters are brought into this contest is interesting and again fits perfectly with the horror movie that this book would be a perfect script/storyline for. A lot of the actual horror might be from what is bringing these people together into this spot, compared to what actually happens to them. The horror and violence of the deaths or disappearances however they may actually be as we read them, is left off page, for the most part. We get a bit of it at the end along with some descriptions. So this would be a more suspenseful type of horror movie, the monster that is supposed to be in the park would need more screen time in a movie in my opinion.

But once the action got going I really enjoyed it a lot. My only issue, I really hate the whole 3rd person omniscience POV in stories. It makes it hard for me to know who we are following at the time, so that made it hard for me to get in the story, and meant at times I also had to double back a few paragraphs because they way I read I missed who exactly we were following at the moment. Other than that, a great horror story! And I really like the way the ending went, even if it didn’t completely tie up all the loose ends and solve the whole thing. In a way, the perfect way a horror movie could leave open for a sequel.

Review first published on Lisa Loves Literature.