SuitabookDeprivation House
Leslie McFarlane
- Reading
- Try reading a few chapters together first, then check whether the threat-focused mystery feels enjoyable. You can pause to discuss clues or skip ahead if the suspense is not working for your reader.
- Themes
- Competition and motives: Teenagers compete to survive longest without modern luxuries, with a million-dollar prize; some crew members are hiding secrets. The premise supplies possible motives but does not establish whether the story criticises, endorses or simply uses the competition as a mystery setting.
- Worth knowing
- Death threats are part of the mystery, and the contest centres on surviving without modern luxuries. The briefing does not say how frightening or intense these elements are on the page.