Persey enters the competition along with seven other young contestants, but while most escape rooms are about teamwork and collaboration, this one is all about being cut-throat—literally. When contestants start getting killed off, Persey must solve a series of bizarre and gruesome puzzles, riddles, and games to make it out alive. Along the way she learns the contestants are mysteriously related—and someone is out for vengeance. Firstly, from what we know about crazy Kimber from the postman works, Persey doesn't seem the type to be able to go absolutely batshit like Kimber eventually does. It just doesn't jibe. i actually really liked persey as a narrator and main character, and i think she was my favorite! i usually don’t like main characters all that much, but i thought she was great!

She meets two kids, both young teenagers, Shannon the older sister who does everything she can for her brother, Kian, who has fallen in with the wrong kind of crowd. Jax is the gang leader, who will do anything and everything to get what he wants ... more money, more power. Kobo Abe’s novel The Woman in the Dunes appeared in 1962, to spontaneous acclaim, was translated into 20 languages and adapted for a Cannes festival award-winning film directed by Hiroshi Teshigahara and scored by Toru Takemitsu. Each of the seven subsequent novels that Abe wrote before his death, aged 68, in 1993 earned him plaudits as a writer of the avant-garde and sales of over 100,000 in Japan alone. Twenty years before Dee Guerra and the Death Row Breakfast Club took down The Postman and Alcatraz 2.0 in #MurderTrending, long before Becca survived The Juggernaut and Who Wants to Be a Painiac? In #MurderFunding, the murder games first began with one awful day at Escape-Capades, Ltd.™ And there’s no telling who might have made it out alive, or what they may have later become.

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In recent years, the People’s Republic of China has rounded up as many as three million Uyghurs, placing them in what it calls “reeducation camps,” facilities most of the world identifies as concentration camps. There, the genocide and enslavement of the Uyghur people are ongoing. The tactics employed are reminiscent of the Cultural Revolution, but the results are far more insidious because of the technology used, most of it stolen from Silicon Valley. In the words of Turkel, “Communist China has created an open prison-like environment through the most intrusive surveillance state that the world has ever known while committing genocide and enslaving the Uyghurs on the world’s watch.” She joins an escape room game and passes with flying colors, basically getting everyone out single handedly. This gets her into an exclusive escape game with a prize of millions of dollors 🤑 I can go on and on about the horrors this book brings to light, but all I am going to say is read/listen to it and learn from it. Freedom is such a fragile and precious thing. Technology is a tool that can be used for good or ill and it's obvious which way China has gone with it.

His philosophical outlook allows him to articulate the book’s psycho-social and existential themes, and his scientific eye, like Abe’s own, is keen enough to engineer escape plans and be informed about the minerology of sand. For all his pomposity, the man tries to be decent.The world has grown even more dangerous for the survivors of the EMP strikes that crippled the United States. Ronny is a prisoner of AILS, a terrorist group planning to remake the world to suit their twisted vision. He’ll do whatever it takes to stop them, even if it costs him his life. Its difficult to review this one without giving much away, I can say I don’t think anyone will be disappointed! I will try my best not to give away too much. This book sees the original group split and sort of head their own teams in an attempt to bring down the terrorist group AILS. It does see all the original characters come to the conclusion that they will bring about the end of AILS or they will die trying! In fact in one section of this book we see characters agree to blow the oil rig up even if it means them dying, then just as they are about to do so they see that AILS have some of their loved ones hostage. They then face a difficult decision, stop AILS but kill their loved ones in the process…..or try to mount a rescue and risk perhaps not stopping AILS. Finally it is decided that they will mount a rescue bid but if at any point it seems all is lost and they are about to be captured they will use a detonator to blow the rig up and everyone who is on it at the time, Before reading Casey Kelleher books I was never a fan of gritty crime/gangland books BUT now I am totally turned around and LOVE them!! I was so excited to read No Escape after previously enjoying The Byrne Trilogy and I hope that this is the start of a new series for me to obsess over. As soon as I finished reading No Relief, I wanted to read this book but then I had mixed feelings, in one way I couldn’t wait to read more but on the other hand I didn’t want it all to end! Anyway, once this was available to read, I couldn’t resist diving in and reading it for very long.

Maybe, maybe, maybe. Buddhism is predicated on the impermanence of all things, including Buddhism. In a not dissimilar way, the meditations on freedom, captivity, the transient and the immutable in The Woman in the Dunes invite, and allow for, misinterpretations - which might be another word for “reinterpretations”. Even the novel’s opening epigram, “Without the threat of punishment there is no joy in flight”, has fuzzy edges: is this an oppressor’s justification or a would-be fugitive’s consolation? This is a story that’s character driven. There are a few likeable ones and ones that are far from it! This memoir expertly documents the unimaginable persecution of an entire ethnic race. It is hard-hitting and in equal parts, both infuriating and an eye-opening revelation. Lucy's being a law enforcement officer comes as no surprise. As a rookie, her first assignment is talking to the residents of the Griffin Estate .... where her mother was murdered. Everyone needs to know that genocide against the Uyghur people is happening in today's world. Yet, Disney has filmed a movie in the very province where concentration camps are operating and the Olympics was allowed to be help in China. Turkel himself was born in one of the "re-education" camps before being able to move to America. The information about what is happening to these people is heartbreaking and we cannot turn a blind eye to the atrocities being committed.a b "No Escape (1994)". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on May 3, 2019 . Retrieved June 4, 2019. The #murder and mayhem continue in this prequel companion novel to the grisly, campy social media insanity that is #MurderTrending and #MurderFunding. Gretchen McNeil brings her signature wit and merciless kills to this gruesome yet hilarious, wildly topical young adult novel.

As a child, she already witnessed the murder of one innocent person. It will take all her courage and training to stop another. Twenty years before Dee Guerra and the Death Row Breakfast Club took down The Postman and Alcatraz 2.0, long before Becca survived The Juggernaut and Who Wants to Be a Painiac?, the murder games first began with the wildly popular "escape room" trend. Specifically, with Escape-Capades, Ltd.? Reluctantly, she joins. Little does she know that its an Escape room of death, until participants start dropping dead during the game 😳 The woman was born in the village and, presumably, has never left it. She says her husband and child were killed in a sand avalanche, but is unable to locate their burial place. Whether this statement is true, a deception or one of Abe’s murkier symbols is never really settled. For all the monotony of her existence, the woman is a multilayered character. It is one role of her unwilling house guest to unpeel these layers for the reader. The man first sees her as an object of contempt: why doesn’t she fight the villagers’ tyranny? Later, the contempt is diluted to pity. She doesn’t fight her tyranny because she doesn’t know what freedom is; she doesn’t even feel the chafe of its absence. While I know a tiny bit about the Uyghur's plight, this book taught me so much about what is actually happening, and how it happened. I was most surprised about the way that China uses technology to monitor the people living there, and how it's been twisted to oppress an entire group of people.

This was a very well-written gangland thriller that kept me hoping for the best for Shannon and Kian, but especially for Lucy as I hoped she could gain closure from her mother's murder. The scenes were gritty and are often tinged with sadness. From the twists and turns to the riveting conclusion, this was a book I could not put down. Until I read this book, I hardly knew of the Uyghurs, let alone their plight in the western part of China. The Xi Jinping described in the book sounds like a modern-day Hitler, or worse. Pure evil. It never ceases to amaze me how cruel human beings can be to other humans.