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Wonderland
Every family has secrets. Wonderland holds theirs. The summer of 1986 was supposed to be carefree for Jacob and his friends in Seaside, California—until a traveling carnival rolled into town. Wonderland’s bright lights and strange attractions mask something sinister, and its arrival begins to unravel long-buried family secrets. Eerie visions, unsettling encounters, and cryptic clues pull the group deeper into the carnival’s dark web. As reality blurs into nightmare, they discover their families are tied to Wonderland’s horrifying past in ways they never could have imagined. With 80s nostalgia, psychological terror, and unrelenting suspense, Wonderland, Dreams of Nightmares is a chilling tale of family, friendship, and the darkness that binds us.
503 pages, Hardcover
Published October 24, 2024
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April 3, 2025
This book was so much fun. From the first chapter it was action packed and terrifying. I loved the gruesome aspects as well as the storyline and friendships. Hands down it was a great read.
November 10, 2025
I bought this book to support a newer author but was deeply disappointed when reading since it seems like a lot of AI writing/editing was used. There are so many formatting errors that the plot and character descriptions are hard to follow. Everything is very quickly paced that there is no further development or description on characters, backstories, or even environmental details. There is a new creepy thing happening every other page that it becomes tiring and hard to keep track of everything happening. None of them are ever elaborated on and it’s all crammed together.
All the characters are quickly introduced with hardly any backstory besides a few paragraphs forced into awkward points in the plot. The character of Cheyenne is portrayed like a very stereotypical Native American and it feels unnecessary to the story, it feels like very Eurocentric stereotypes. You’re constantly reminded of it every time she’s mentioned.
The plot is very influenced by Stephen King or specifically IT with the mention of deaths that happen every 13 years and other specific events throughout the book. The author mentioned biblical themes but that doesn’t really show up very well. There is also a direct quote taken from the movie Spy Kids 2 which caught me off guard.
If this wasn’t AI, then I really hope there is another edit to this book that fixes all the plot issues because I was really excited after hearing the premise of the book. Author does bring up AI in the beginning description though.
All the characters are quickly introduced with hardly any backstory besides a few paragraphs forced into awkward points in the plot. The character of Cheyenne is portrayed like a very stereotypical Native American and it feels unnecessary to the story, it feels like very Eurocentric stereotypes. You’re constantly reminded of it every time she’s mentioned.
The plot is very influenced by Stephen King or specifically IT with the mention of deaths that happen every 13 years and other specific events throughout the book. The author mentioned biblical themes but that doesn’t really show up very well. There is also a direct quote taken from the movie Spy Kids 2 which caught me off guard.
If this wasn’t AI, then I really hope there is another edit to this book that fixes all the plot issues because I was really excited after hearing the premise of the book. Author does bring up AI in the beginning description though.
October 5, 2025
This was almost certainly written with AI. I know the tells, and this book (along with all the suspicious 5☆ reviews on other sites) reek of them
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