#1 bestselling horror author and multiple Bram Stoker Award finalist Michaelbrent Collings brings you “a great, complex story” (Horror After Dark) with “twists and turns that keep you guessing right up towards the end” (Horror Drive-In).
“I already know all your names. As for me… you can call me Mr. Do-Good.”Five strangers have woken up in a white room. A room with no doors, no windows. A room … Do-Good.”
Five strangers have woken up in a white room. A room with no doors, no windows.
A room with no hope.
“5 stars!” Sci-Fi & Scary
Because these strangers have been kidnapped, drugged… and brought here as the newest contestants in the world’s most high-stakes scavenger hunt.
Run by a madman named Mr. Do-Good, the game offers only two options: win or die.
“Unputdownable!” – Fundinmental book reviews
All they have to do to survive is…
complete every task…
on time…
and not break any of Do-Good’s rules.
“Scarily good.” – Colin Garrow book reviews
Playing the game will bring the players to their breaking point and beyond. But play they will, because Do-Good has plans for these strangers, and their only chance to live through the night is to discover what’s really behind his Scavenger Hunt.
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Scavenger Hunt by Michaelbrent Collings is a wild tale of five people taking part in a twisted scavenger hunt. The stakes are high; the result of not following the rules or accomplishing the task in time is instant death.
I had a blast reading this! Though I do side eye my Apple watch every now and again, hoping that it doesn’t beep and have a voice give me a task. My reaction to my notifications hits a bit differently now. Phew.
Content Warnings: Child endangerment, drug use, human trafficking, and other related items.
I keep seeing mentions of the Saw movies when this book comes up. I LOVE that this tale has a nod to that series. I would say a few elements were similar, but it was less gory. But don’t get me wrong, this tale has its fair share of gore to be sure! It also has plenty of gut-punch moments and a lot more action and suspense.
If you enjoy horror tales packed to the brim with action, very interesting characters, and that will keep you guessing until the final puzzle piece falls into place… you gotta pick this one up.
As soon as I saw the cover, I knew I had to read Scavenger Hunt by Michaelbrent Collings. Why I haven’t read any of his work before, I can’t say, but I am glad HE found ME and offered me an ARC.
At first, I was confused and thinking, uh oh, is this one of those books I am going to struggle through. Well, I didn’t have long to wait to find out that I was too quick to judge.
THEN: The bottom dropped out of five lives as they are thrust into a deadly game of Scavenger Hunt and I quickly find out how the bloody smiley face on the cover comes into play.
Bloody, gory happenings as we flip between the past and the present, learning each characters life, exposing the reason for them being chosen to PLAY the game.
The camera is on and it could be watching YOU!
There’s more going on than the Scavenger Hunt. We have Thaddeus…a rich muckety muck and Hope, a young girl haunted by her past.
WOW…WOW…Scavenger Hunt is turning out to be so much more than what I expected. Michaelbrent Collings has a wicked mind. I haven’t read a book quite like this and it took me to a really dark place. I love the DARK.
I wondered how the stories would all come together, why these particular characters were chosen and it took me a while to see the common factor. As each character’s history is revealed, the threads weave together, though the perpetrator continues to elude me
I love the ending, and for all you high and mighty muckety mucks out there who think you are above the law…BEWARE.
You may think the same thing I did when I first began reading, but don’t give up too soon. The story just keeps getting better and better as it unfolds.
Scavenger Hunt’s originality, fast paced action and tension filled pages makes this an unputdownable book. I read it in one day, while at the dentist, at the eye doctor and finished it up while watching my Detroit Lions play the Green Bay Packers on Monday Night Football. Anything that takes my eyes off the game has to be great!
I voluntarily reviewed an ARC of Scavenger Hunt by Michaelbrent Collings.
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I have read several books by this author, and his writing style is amazing and the characters he creates are believable. This book was no different well written
and loved the twist at the end.
I am a horror fanatic but this takes it to a whole new level! I literally did not put this book down from cover to cover! It has to warrant at least 8 stars in my book! This author is absolutely the scariest but most amuzing horror writer to ever grace the genre! I have gone on to read a few more of his books and each and every one just pushes him up the ladder of scary dudeness!
If you ever see this book – just get it – you will never regret it and it will open up a whole new world of his library!
Pleased to have met you Mr Collings, you will be forever in my Kindle – keep ’em coming or, as you say, more words please!!!
Dark. Demented. Maniacal. Sick. Twisted. I loved every single page!!!
*I received a complimentary ARC of this book in order to read and provide a voluntary, unbiased and honest review, should I choose to do so.
Five strangers are yanked about on a deadly scavenger hunt. Psychological suspense, violence, gore . . . it’s scary fun.
Collings takes a complex plot (many of points of view and different points in time) and makes it easy to follow. I never got lost while enjoying the layered complexity. I enjoyed Collings’ interesting narrative techniques, too, anything from YouTube comments to traditional narration to interview transcripts to flashbacks. Cool.
Overall, this book is exciting, bloody, scary, and hard to put down . . . five star suspense!
Five people wake up in a strange white room. Each has an electronic collar attached to his or her neck and a wristband that issues instructions from the mysterious Mr. Do-Good. The ‘contestants’ are told they are to play a game, but the stakes in this adventure are high – make a mistake and your head might explode.
This is the second book I’ve read by Michaelbrent Collings. While it appears completely different in style and tone to the first one (Predators), the writing tells a story that is just as scary and just as troubling. From the outset we have no idea where we’re going or where we might end up. As someone famous once said, ‘an audience would rather be confused than bored’, and this is certainly confusing, but gradually Mr Collings brings things together and of course, all the clues were there if we’d only been smart enough to see them.
Michaelbrent Collings is a highly talented writer who seems to have more ingenious cunning in his little fingers than the rest of us have all together. Scarily good.