So this is ARC I got from Booksprout, what drew me to pick it was the cover and the blurb intrigued me enough to select it. It takes a little getting into but was good. They are many POVs but the main one I think is Jaxon a boy on a family funcation with his parents and annoying older sister Becky, it's not long after the death of his grandfather Pops so his mother hopes a trip to Bixby Park will go to helping in healing from the lost, we also follow Don a guy on a double date with his friend Ziaire and ends up paired with Rosie who is a Bixby adult and rich but is annoying as hell but she is hot so Don put up with . We learn there is a prize drawing for tickets to the Dream Factory a place that has been closed off from the public since the park's opening as well as a million dollar cash prize. The third POV is of Charlie, who works for Lucille"Lucy"Bixby the daughter of founder Max Bixby having worked for her for ten years and her contract is ending, the job has some weird conditions but the pay is good and as you read you understand why she took it. Recently she was tasked with making sure that certain people got tickets for the draw, Charlie wonders why Lucy wants these particular ones but doesn't really want to dig deep into it as she just wants to just get to the end of her contract. Soon Jaxon and his family, Don and Rosie who have got the winning tickets as well as Charlie who is invited by Lucy as a reward for her time working for her end up in the aforementioned Dream Factory and soon things will get very creepy and tense. The apper assistant who transport them to isolated Dream Factory are quite unnerving all have names ending in apper, with stark white hair, smiling with faces that seem off like a mask. Inside you find a place that is mind blowing but also just off in a way. I wasn't sure what to expect when reading this but was surprised by where it went they is some confusion and it can get a bit distracted with some of the other narrative threads. Max Bixby and Bixby Park are plays on Walt Disney and Disneyland and Wally Rabbit Max's creation is a play on Micky Mouse. If you like psychological horror, dark fantasy and a touch of haunting nostalgia set in a creepy theme park this is for you.
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