Book Review: Playground by Aron Beauregard

 ⚠⚠ Trigger Warning ⚠⚠

⛔⛔Spoiler Alerts⛔⛔

Well, I'm not even sure where to begin with this book. It is definitely one I couldn't put down, but my god it was a bit disturbing. It's not very often where you find books which are based mainly on hurting and abusing children. 

It's safe to say that you shouldn't read this if you are easily offended or disturbed. Geraldine is in a whole other world of disturbed, from setting up the whole dangerous playground, to suffocating her own mother with her vagina. Not to mention her special hall of mirrors. We won't go into to much detail there though! I don't think I've ever disliked a character quite as much as I did her. I'm glad she finally got what was coming to her at the end. 

The children were a mix of likeable and unlikeable characters, for instance I loved CJ, Tanya and Donnie. But by the end of the book I couldn't stand Bobby, for obvious reasons. 

The Traps within the playground were pretty inventive, and I liked the fact that they were all based on or around things that would be within a normal playground. Although I think the use of slides and blades should have only have been used once rather then twice. Although they were done in different ways both times, the traps seemed a bit to similar for my liking.

If you don't like books with very gory details of sex, blood, gore and killing, then this is definitely not a book for you. However if you are a little bit warped in the mind like I am then you will probably find yourself reading it and then hunting out for more books that are similar to this one. 

This book definitely needs to be read with a trigger warning in mind due to the amount of child abuse and sexual content within in it. 

But all in all, I found it a great read and would recommend if you are in to this kind of thing. 

Rating - ⭐⭐⭐⭐