Title: Traumaland

Author: Josh Silver

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Seventeen-year-old Eli has been in a near-fatal car crash. As the anniversary looms, his therapist and family struggle to help him deal with the fall out. The accident has left him emotionally numb, with no memory of the months following the crash.

Desperate to feel something again, Eli winds up at an underground club called Traumaland. But this is no ordinary nightclub. Here he joins crowds of other emotionally numb people, all seeking to experience a new thrill by entering virtual reality simulations of nightmarish scenarios through the points of view of various characters.

When he enters the story of a boy called Jack, he discovers a darker truth to the club. A truth that sets Eli on a dangerous journey to find the source of his own trauma.

Oh wow, what a story!

This author has the knack of taking these seemingly broken characters and making them who they are and taking a story and making the twists so jaw dropping that I had to buy one of those chin lift mask things off TT to keep my mouth closed as I kept thinking about that ending for ages after (100% not for snoring!!!)

I don’t even know where to begin with proclaiming my love for EVERYTHING about this book. So I’m just going to say…..read it. READ IT and fall in love with Eli.

Fantastic, excellent, marvellous – and any adjective for superb! That is what this book is.

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