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3.32 AVERAGE
3.32 AVERAGE
dark
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
challenging
dark
sad
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This was a brutal story!! I hated most of the characters and I realize that this story is going to stick with me for a while.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Child death, Cursing, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Homophobia, Incest, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Grief, Death of parent, Murder
dark
tense
fast-paced
After hearing so much about this on Reddit, I decided to give it a read.
I think this book is everything that I wasn’t EH to be. Unlike some other books, it had a great story. The characters were all unique and enjoyable to follow. The splatterpunk was also unique and absolutely disgusting adding to the shock value of everything. I enjoyed that antagonist being Geraldine and Bobby both working to killing the children. It added additional fear factor that is not always the case in EH books. Overall - maybe my favorite EH book - one that engaged me at every chapter - gave literally no time to breath between scenes - and still had a satisfying closure to the fk’d up story…
I think this book is everything that I wasn’t EH to be. Unlike some other books, it had a great story. The characters were all unique and enjoyable to follow. The splatterpunk was also unique and absolutely disgusting adding to the shock value of everything. I enjoyed that antagonist being Geraldine and Bobby both working to killing the children. It added additional fear factor that is not always the case in EH books. Overall - maybe my favorite EH book - one that engaged me at every chapter - gave literally no time to breath between scenes - and still had a satisfying closure to the fk’d up story…
I honestly don’t know how to rate this book. If you’re in it for the gore and horror, there’s plenty. VERY gory and a highly disturbing, not for the faint of heart. Check triggers and warnings.
The story line follows a few families chosen for a grand opportunity for some $$$, and all they have to do is allow their children to play on a new, state-of-the-art playground. However, it is actually a trap created by the evil Geraldine who’s main goal is to see these families suffer. So yes, the children play, but they play and must survive these gruesome, sick, twisted games to be able to see their parents again (parents who are being held captive and are forced to watch their children go through this nightmare).
Exactly like squid games but with kids.
Although this book was truly disturbing and thought some parts didn’t need to me included (cough chapter 6 and 7), it was like a car crash you couldn’t look away from.
Did I read the warnings prior to reading the book? Yes. Did I still hope they would be stopped before we lost anyone? Also yes.
The personalities of the characters remain persistent throughout the story with the exception of a few, and for those that changed they developed dramatically-for better or for worse, mostly worse.
Overall, while I don’t think I will read this again due to my weak stomach, I would recommend this to someone with guts of steel.
✨HAPPY READING✨
The story line follows a few families chosen for a grand opportunity for some $$$, and all they have to do is allow their children to play on a new, state-of-the-art playground. However, it is actually a trap created by the evil Geraldine who’s main goal is to see these families suffer. So yes, the children play, but they play and must survive these gruesome, sick, twisted games to be able to see their parents again (parents who are being held captive and are forced to watch their children go through this nightmare).
Exactly like squid games but with kids.
Although this book was truly disturbing and thought some parts didn’t need to me included (cough chapter 6 and 7), it was like a car crash you couldn’t look away from.
Did I read the warnings prior to reading the book? Yes. Did I still hope they would be stopped before we lost anyone? Also yes.
The personalities of the characters remain persistent throughout the story with the exception of a few, and for those that changed they developed dramatically-for better or for worse, mostly worse.
Overall, while I don’t think I will read this again due to my weak stomach, I would recommend this to someone with guts of steel.
✨HAPPY READING✨
adventurous
dark
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
N/A
Anywhere you look Aron's Beauregard's Playground has become the uncontested face of splatterpunk. While undeniably "explicit", Beauregard fails to provide any worthwhile message that could possibly constitute this book as politically shrewd or countercultural. [AKA The whole point of the splatterpunk genre] Even if one pushes aside the flimsy class discourse and novice exploration of intergenerational trauma, the book ends up boiling down to a series of violent happenings. A rather sad accomplishment, when one considers the objectively entertaining premise of giant murder playground with a gaggle of emotionally unregulated children. Although I certainly didn't expect a William Golding masterpiece, this book crushed any possibility of emotion with its monotonous pacing/structure and superficial characters that served as nothing more than meat bags for cheesy games. (I mean, honestly a whole ass trial for a single slide? Give me McDonalds shit smeared playplace, you coward!) At most, I found myself with a half hearted attachment to Donnie for being a perfect representation of reading this book: dragged stone-faced from violent trial to the next. Even the misogynistic rhetoric, strange homophobic underlyings, and bizzare sexual assault scenes were so utterly dull that I didn't even get the pleasure of a nice hate read. All in all, any kudos given to this book can be narrowed down to popularizing the splatterpunk genre to a new audience and nothing more . [And even that 0.5 brownie point becomes lost when one considers that Playground has inadvertently misrepresented this extreme horror genre as pornographically right-winged ]
Content Warnings
Graphic: Child abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Incest, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, Excrement
dark
emotional
sad
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Okay so it's basically like saw but with kids... Let's say I can't wait till the prequel is out to find out why Geraldine is such a cunt!
Scat queen gets off on raping her abused ward and watching parents squirm at the brutal death and dismemberment of their children on a violent playground she created. There’s also a nazi. And a hall of mirrors and dildos?
Yeah this was something else
Yeah this was something else
icky and awful but i wasnt as affected as i thought id be
writing wasn't like greeeeat but im not here for the writing style im here for the gore
writing wasn't like greeeeat but im not here for the writing style im here for the gore