It’s the game you never asked to play. A one-way bus ticket to Florida offers Rodney Corso the chance at a fresh start from his dead-end life in South Carolina. Unfortunately, he’d never get to his final destination. During the ten-hour trek to Miami, Rodney and the rest of the passengers awaken duct-taped to their seats and stranded in the middle of nowhere. Their captor reveals himself, … nowhere. Their captor reveals himself, informing them they are participants in a game of survival.
“The rules are simple,” he tells them. “Follow the flares to reach the safe zone. Make it there, and you live. Stay, and they will come tear you apart.”
Who is running this game? What awaits them out there in the darkness? And will these flares lead to freedom or straight into a trap?
If Rodney and the others want to live long enough to find out, they will have no choice but to uncover the dark secret that has brought them here and face a nightmare, unlike anything they have ever experienced.
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The Death Wish Game was a good read by Jonathan Chateau. Rodney is looking for a fresh start with his one-way ticket to Florida. On the way the passengers are drugged and wake up duct-taped to their seats. Their captor tells them they’re participants in a game of survival. One by one the passengers are killed in their seats. They must play the game to survive. This was a good read, I cant wait to read more by the author.
I’m sitting here trying to process what I have read, and figure out what to say about it. One thing I will say is I went into this book completely blind. To be honest the cover is what grabbed my attention, I didn’t read the blurb or any reviews. So I dove in hoping that what was inside would be just as attention grabbing. Well I can say that the first part of the story was able to keep my attention. Even with an annoying character, Damien, being introduced. I overlooked this, because I know that not every character is going to be liked. Still I kept reading thinking OK I can get into a good horror story about surviving a human hunting game. But, this author just couldn’t stop there. Nope he had to go and introduce the supernatural into the game. Then when you have the characters trying to run for their lives, that’s when they decidethat it’s time to share their stories. Oh and you can’t forget that the main male character brings up at odd times that he’s noticing the one female character romantically. Ummm, sorry to tell you, your running in the woods trying to survive, keep your head out of the gutter. Even more characters are introduced, these ones being just over the line of creepy. And it’s with them you find out what’s out there and why these people are there. Mainly you find out that this whole cluster is one man’s sick and twisted version of entertainment. By the time this was revealed I was already figuring thatvthe author couldn’t do anything else that I wouldn’t expect. And I was right, there was the inevitable power struggle between the characters. Then in the middle of this struggle, there was one little twist that happens. And then the next thing I know the story is over. I almost felt that the ending was kind of anticlimactic, especially with the way that the power struggle was going.
I’m not saying that I didn’t enjoy this book. But, I also can’t say that disliked it either. I’m going to say that I was in the middle. There was parts that I found kept my attention. And then there was parts that I found to be a little lack luster. At least to me, this may not be the way someone else will feel when reading this particular book.
Not my usual type of book and not what I expected from the blurb, but found myself unable to put it down till it was over.
Has a hunger games vibe
Well…not my typical mystery book. I can honestly say not a book I would normally read at any time, yet I could not put it down. I found myself going back to it wanting to know what would happen next. It is truly a “be careful what you wish for…”
The storyline is one I had never come across before and had a very surprising end. Don’t worry, no spoilers here. I would not dream of it. Not how I roll when it comes to my reviews.
I am not sure how I could explain if the characters where developed but as I think of them many felt very real to me and I guess that is what we ask for. How real are they? It does not matter what genre they appear in. The story arc also must have some depth to it. Like a heavy stew compared to just a broth. I would definitely say this is a stew. This is not just a horror story for there are some surprising twists in the end. Ones that I know you will certainly enjoy as much as I did.