


Despite the large cast, the reader eventually gets a handle on at least the personalities of all the contestants. I came to like the central characters, even if I never became particularly attached to any of them. The plot itself was fairly straightforward -a story of survival in a creepy amusement park, a dark past to unravel – and most of the time I generally knew what was going to happen next, though the specifics did often surprise me.

I imagine the author of this learned theory must of course think themselves to number among those who matter.Īnyway, it made me very mad, which was why I found this book so cathartic. One of the worst ‘hot takes’ I ever read on the Internet was a post positing that there must be a limited number of souls to go around to all the billions of people on Earth, and that most people must therefore be NPCs – didn’t that explain why so many people nowadays were so bland, so boring, such utter wastes of space? But what the hiders don’t know is the true nature of the seeker… The challenge: to hide in a decrepit amusement park, and not get found out. Fourteen people participate in a mysterious competition for a chance to win a life-changing amount of money.
