A review by alatarmaia
Fantasticland by Mike Bockoven

emotional mysterious medium-paced

4.0

I enjoyed this book. It's a really well-done example of "document" media, sort of a cousin to "found footage" horror. My one main gripe is that the idea that "those teens are on their phones too much" is what caused this seemed frankly...shoehorned. the adults kept bringing it up in the retrospectives, but the teens themselves barely mention it. Every time it came up it felt like the author had remembered it was supposed to be part of the story and threw in a reference really quick without bothering to build the necessary foundation. 

There's no content warning option for it but this book is, naturally, filled with explicit description of a natural disaster and its aftereffects. 

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Violence, and Blood

Minor: Rape and Cannibalism