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The Playground Kindle Edition

by C. S. Boyack (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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The hottest new toys of the Christmas season are the Playground Network dolls. They contain a worldwide social network for children. Except the network is controlled by a ruthless businessman with dreams of power.

To reach his goals he turns to the occult. Will our children make up his personal army? Could we have an enemy soldier in every home?

Gina Greybill is a cancer survivor who stumbles into her own brush with the paranormal. She wants nothing to do with it, but may be the only one who can bring down the Playground Network. To do it she'll have to embrace her new situation, and recover the next generation of Playground software.

There is competition for the software in the form of a brutal thug named Clovis. He's bigger, more ruthless, and more experienced. To top it all off, he has a head start.

The Playground is suitable for mature readers, due to violence and mature themes.

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339 pages
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April 4, 2016
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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B01D6EF6RI
Publisher ‏ : ‎ (April 4, 2016)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ April 4, 2016
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 997 KB
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 339 pages

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I was born in a town called Elko, Nevada. I like to tell everyone I was born in a small town in the 1940s. I'm not quite that old, but Elko has always been a little behind the times. This gives me a unique perspective of earlier times, and other ways of getting by. Some of this bleeds through into my fiction.

I moved to Idaho right after the turn of the century, and never looked back. My writing career was born here, with access to other writers and critique groups I jumped in with both feet.

I like to write about things that have something unusual. My works are in the realm of science fiction, paranormal, and fantasy. The goal is to entertain you for a few hours. I hope you enjoy the ride.

Craig

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Mary Schmidt

The Playground by C. S. Boyack

Reviewed in the United States on November 22, 2016

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My review follows the authors blurb found on Amazon.
“The hottest new toys of the Christmas season are the Playground Network dolls. They contain a worldwide social network for children. Except the network is controlled by a ruthless businessman with dreams of power. To reach his goals he turns to the occult. Will our children make up his personal army? Could we have an enemy soldier in every home? Gina Greybill is a cancer survivor who stumbles into her own brush with the paranormal. She wants nothing to do with it, but may be the only one who can bring down the Playground Network. To do it she’ll have to embrace her new situation, and recover the next generation of Playground software. There is competition for the software in the form of a brutal thug named Clovis. He’s bigger, more ruthless, and more experienced. To top it all off, he has a head start. The Playground is suitable for mature readers, due to violence and mature themes.”
Boyack outdid himself on this book! If you are a fantasy/horror/supernatural book lover, then this book is perfect for you as it’s a thriller beyond all thrillers. Using internet toys to lure children into a world of pure evil filled with drugs, theft, violence, and more, Boyack is in the top five percent with this book! I truly can see this narrative made into a screenplay for a feature film. Filled with suspense and action, Boyack delivers a punch! The ending makes one wonder if there is to be another book, or if this book is part of a series as there isn’t closure at the end. Left hanging, I rate four stars.

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Robbie Cheadle

An interesting and clever story tapestry

Reviewed in the United States on November 13, 2019

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All over the USA, young kids are begging for their parents to by them Playground Network dolls. They are available for different age groups and for boys and girls. The huge attraction with these dolls is that they connect to a network which allows each doll to recognize other dolls and know their names. Through the dolls, the children can make friends and talk to each other on the network. It sounds great, a way for lonely children to make new friends and for kids to help each other out with things like their homework.
The creator of the network, however, does not have such innocent plans for it. He intends to use it to control the children and make them abide by his commands. He must be stopped.
Clovis is a small-time criminal who does occasional jobs for a hood called Tommy. Clovis is semi-retired but he agrees to take on a last job for Tommy and track down a programmer who has gone missing with the specific software he was developing for Tommy.
Dr Gina Greybill is a qualified doctor who is in remission from cancer. She has given up working in a hospital and taken on work as a caregiver for elderly people who are no longer able to look after themselves adequately. After the death of her latest patient, Gina obtains a new job as the healthcare specialist for an elderly man who lives in a rather creepy mansion with only his part-time housekeeper to company. Gina quickly discovers that she has been identified as the one person who can track down an evil demon who is attacking children throughout the country.
Gina is an interesting character who soon demonstrates her abilities to adapt to difficult and unusual circumstances and to reason on a high level. She is a strong female character with great determination and bravery. I really enjoyed watching her character develop as this story unfolded.
Clovis is a bit of an enigma as he isn’t truly evil, but he also isn’t a good person. He is an individual who does what he must in order to survive. He does, however, have a strong sense of ethics and morals.
The threads in this story are cleverly woven together to create an interesting and clever story tapestry which is guaranteed the reader on the edge of his/her seat. I enjoyed the technological innovation in this story and would recommend it to lovers of sci-fi, fantasy and the supernatural.

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Joy Nwosu Lo-Bamijoko

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Reviewed in the United States on July 26, 2016

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As I read this story, I could see three different stories, that, first of all, could have stood alone, but which mysteriously has a connection, which only became obvious at the end. I was getting quite frustrated following Chloe’s story, and how her parents, and all the other parents were in the dark about what was happening to their children, and the devil toy they were buying them. Or for that matter, the toy itself.

Then the story jumped to Clovis, a character, whose function in the story, I couldn’t understand. Clovis seemed to me to be a go between person, put there by the maniacal Fazio to create a link between him and Gina. There was so little information about where this story was going, until the end, and it was only toward the end that I could sit up and begin to enjoy the story. Before that, I was lost, and trying to see the link between the three story blocks.

In the end, the author did not explain the meaning of some of the strange happenings that took place in the story, giving the impression that the story continued. Things will begin to make sense to me if this story is the first in a series. And as such, this story is just a laying down of the grounds for a much deeper insight into the mysterious world that this story talked about. I am still scratching my head…

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Harmony Kent

Urban Paranormal Horror

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 2, 2017

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This is an easy to read and entertaining urban paranormal horror/thriller. It moves between character points of view, and each POV gets its own chapter so that it is easy to follow the changes. Some of the developments felt a little rushed, such as Dr Greybill getting dragged into the world of the dead and the monster hunters. I felt that this could have done with more of a lead in and some filling out. I loved the notion of the bad guy taking over the talking doll network to his own evil ends, and having a demon instead of a run-of-the-mill computer virus just made this even better.

A few hiccups did trip me up, such as using waived instead of waved (the two have vastly different meanings) and the same with discrete/discreet. The biggie was mixing up sat and set. To say, 'I sat out the tea,' means something different to, 'I set out the tea.' The first implies that you sat it out and didn't partake, while the second (and correct form) suggests that you prepared for the tea and laid it out. Also, some missing punctuation gives an amusing read at times, as with: 'The dog shivered and he started the engine.' Of course, the man started the engine, not the dog, and to this end, the sentence needs a comma!

Aside from these glitches, I found this a thoroughly good read and cannot recommend the writer highly enough. He knows how to spin a good yarn and hold your attention. While the story is a little open ended, it isn't a cliff hanger and works as a standalone while remaining open to a possible sequel.

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