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A review by daynpitseleh
The Park by Voss Foster
3.0
I received this from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
While this will get comparisons to the Hunger Games series (which itself ripped out Battle Royale), I think I actually enjoyed The Park more, although it was not as well executed. I enjoyed the reality tv aspects and the inclusions of the tv guide type summaries, blog posts, and email dialogues. However, I felt like it just wasn't fully developed enough - I wanted to know more about pretty much everything, and the ending just kind of fizzled out for me. At the beginning of the book, I had a bit of trouble keeping the characters separate, which can be traced to the issue that the characters are not fully fleshed out enough -- I would have found it clever if there had been an introduction to the characters in the beginning, perhaps written in the style of a magazine article that introduces the new cast of a reality show. Overall, it was a quick read that left me intrigued but ultimately wishing it had been better executed.
While this will get comparisons to the Hunger Games series (which itself ripped out Battle Royale), I think I actually enjoyed The Park more, although it was not as well executed. I enjoyed the reality tv aspects and the inclusions of the tv guide type summaries, blog posts, and email dialogues. However, I felt like it just wasn't fully developed enough - I wanted to know more about pretty much everything, and the ending just kind of fizzled out for me. At the beginning of the book, I had a bit of trouble keeping the characters separate, which can be traced to the issue that the characters are not fully fleshed out enough -- I would have found it clever if there had been an introduction to the characters in the beginning, perhaps written in the style of a magazine article that introduces the new cast of a reality show. Overall, it was a quick read that left me intrigued but ultimately wishing it had been better executed.