I grabbed my gore suite for the second time around on this book as I knew I was going to be needing it and the second time around I enjoyed it even more!



A little backstory for you:

Two friends Ben and Lillian along with Lillian's therapist Dr. Wexler decide to check out the new theme park, Ghostland. The theme park has all different kinds of exhibits that include ghosts which are trapped within those exhibits. The park comes with a map of where everything is located and the place is huge. Also Ben, Lillian, and Dr. Wexler are handed special glasses to see the ghosts as without them they will see nothing.

Ben is excited most of all as Ghostland is centered around horror author, Rex Garrote, who had died in an unique way and who had also lived in one of the most haunted houses in America. So Ben is really psyched to be able to explore the theme park and he just wants to delve deep into all the exhibits.

Everything seems to be going along smooth as silk until on the tram ride through the park an unexpected event happens when the computer system to the park fails and the trapped ghosts that are exhibits become "un-trapped"!

The ghosts are free and when that happens all hell breaks loose in the park as the ghosts go on a rampage destroying anything that gets in their way!



What happens to Ben, Lillian, and Dr. Wexler? Do they make it through the theme park unscathed? What causes the computer system to fail? What happens when the ghosts escape? No spoilers here as you will just have to read the book!

Thoughts:

This book was an extensive research project for the author, Duncan Ralston and you can tell how much time went into this book. Very detailed descriptions of all the exhibits throughout the park along with quite a bit of technology research as well.

I became attached to the characters and when the crap hits the fan in the story with the ghosts becoming free this story goes into ghosts overdrive as the action ratchets up in the book! On this second time around, I was on the edge of my seat as when the action starts happening I was glued to my kindle as there is nothing more cool than reading about ghosts that are ticked off and causing havoc as they go on a ghosts attack!

There are some very extreme "walk on the wild side" sections of the book which might make you cringe and cover your eyes!

The action was so intense in the story that it was like sitting in a movie theatre with booming surround sound as when you read about the screams in the park, you are going to be hearing it and when the gore starts flying you will be feeling it splatter in your face! Giving this book five "creative ghostly" stars! ( )

DNF. This is a cool premise but the writing style was very juvenile and the characters flat and annoying. This writer has a good imagination, but needs to spend more time honing his craft. And the grammatical errors and formatting issues in the book are jarring. Maybe I’ll check out future books by this author (when he is with another publishing house that actually knows how to edit).
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