I was completely engrossed and couldn't stop reading, so feel free to ignore this review and go right ahead and read it.

This whole Found Footage or Podcast or "Reality" or Mockumentary style of horror writing has been done to death already. They then dragged one of them back and made them [the future Deadpools] watch as they chopped off his hands and left for dead. Fourthly, WHY, when there is enough food, water and shelter to last weeks and weeks, WOULD PEOPLE'S FIRST DECISION TO BE TO FORM TRIBES AND START KILLING EACH OTHER?

And given the unsanitary conditions and lack of real medical care, this hypothetical prisoner wouldn't have survived past losing finger two. At the risk of sounding like a pessimist, human nature being what it is, a lot of the behavior was unnecessarily appalling and disturbing. I firmly believe now this book would've been more effective had the author not exaggerated some things.

Cut off from the world and left on their own, the teenagers soon form rival tribes who viciously compete for food, medicine, social dominance, and even human flesh.

I’m not sure what’s going on in Florida but nothing surprises me now with the stories that come out of the state. Yet of the only two who are interviewed, one was drafted and only spoke of his forced induction while the other presents the group as not as evil as the Pirates are made out to be, acting in self-defense and never raping anyone. Nearly every character exists in that morally gray space that I love my book characters to exist in. Refuge in Audacity: The Freaks had taken over the circus section which had decorations prepared for their Halloween celebration. The Dreaded: The Freaks and the Pirates were the two most feared of the FantasticLand tribes though it worked out in different ways: the Freaks were a group of stoners whose leader came up with the idea to create a facade of being insane cannibals to keep the other tribes from attacking them.