Cookie-cutter narrative voices and characters who are generally uninteresting and unlikable make for a ride that’s less than thrilling. Quick overview, it is in an interview format just like World War Z and it's about a fictional theme park and its surviving employees stranded in it after a hurricane hit and flooded it. Told in the format of a series of interviews conducted by a reporter, each narrative slowly introduces the core characters, most notably Pirate Cove employee Brock Hockney and Sam Garliek, the manager on duty at the time who goes power-mad when the disaster strikes. Have you guys read Fantasticland by Mike Bockoven The audiobook is also a fantastic way to experience it. When North Florida’s FantasticLand theme park is cut off thanks to a storm, the workers in the various areas, such as Pirate Cove and World’s Circus, have a decent amount of supplies at first, but each area soon devolves into its own faction (with names that include the Deadpools for the folks from the superhero area, Mole Men for maintenance workers in the tunnels, and Shopgirls for the retail employees), and things get bloody extremely quickly. Bockoven’s first novel, a high-concept riff on The Lord of the Flies and The Warriors, has plenty of gonzo potential but degenerates into a polemic against social media and millennials.
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