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I wanted to love this book but I found it to be really corny and cliche to the point where I predicted everything that happened. I will say the best part about this book was the writing, the author certainly is skilled.

The cover really gives "horror at an amusement park" which I was really excited about. I was surprised as I was reading to find that this book is more fantasy than anything. That being said, for what is was, it was overall good at a 3=star read for me. I loved the first 30% of the book with us learning in real time as the main character that he was actually stuck in "heaven" in Whirly World. As the story progressed, I was excited for more drama around Jason's death, escaping Whirly World, discovering park secrets, etc. Instead it was just a really immersive look at an amusement park in insane detail. About 60% through the author was losing me a bit. I would recommend this book to anyone who's posthumous dream is to haunt Disneyland for all of eternity.

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I have a lifelong love for Amusement Parks so of course I was immediately interested in Whirly World by Brandon Jones.

Jason Green has died and is in his favorite place, Whirly World (which I am also happy to say had some nods to disney park elements to it (as all good theme parks should) along with nods to a few others, but the park isn’t quite how he remembers it.

I just quickly ate this book up due to my love of theme parks as well as a unique cast of characters.

Will you love the book as much as I did if you don’t love places like Knoebels, Hershey Park and Dorney Park? There’s only one way to know.

(If I was going to do a soundtrack for this book I would definitely put a lot of Bowie on it. As to what songs I will keep that to myself so I don’t spoil anything.)


Pub Date Oct 13 2023
Emet Studios

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