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Loading... Flesh Worn Stone (edition 2011)by John A. Burks Jr.
Work InformationFlesh Worn Stone by Jr. John A. Burks
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Brutal! What a story! At first I hated it and very nearly stopped reading the book. But as the story progressed it became more and more engrossing and I ended up resolving to read the next book in the trilogy. Set on an island where people were imprisoned and used to fight in order that the whole community could receive food in order to continue to live. If no one fought then the strict form of punishment in the community resulted in people being eaten because there was no other food available. Not a book for the light-hearted. no reviews | add a review
Steven Alexander, simple suburbanite, loving father and husband, is thrust into a world of violence and slavery beginning with one brutal night where, during a home invasion, his sons are murdered in front of him. He and his wife Rebecca are then kidnapped, drugged, and taken to an uncharted tropical island where they awake on a pristine beach in the company of five strangers.The island is prison and it's residents are both the guards and the participants in the Game, a modern-day rendition of the Colosseum of ancient Rome, where they must compete in acts of murder, rape, and self-mutilation for the amusement of an unseen wealthy elite. Contestants must survive five times to earn their freedom from the island horrors. Losers become the evening meal.Steven struggles to survive in a world where violence is not only accepted but cheered. He fights to hold on to his wife, Rebecca, in a community where cannibalism is survival, brutality is affection, and living another day is at the expense of his own soul. Survival comes with a price, however, and he soon learns that not only are not all of the players in the Game unwilling participants, but those who have volunteered to play the Game have paid a horrible admission price. No library descriptions found. |
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