Playing For Real Horror Book Review

When a Vegetarian Author Writes Gruesome Fiction:  Unassuming australian autor weaves a computer gaming story with so much nightmarish gore hat the rest of us must pray it never happens.  Now, the gentle wife, mother and vegetarian has published the antithesis to her unassuming lifestyle: a book so filled with violence and gore, one person stopped reading and insisted Barringham “needed to talk to someone”.  Now, read the book that has everyone talking.  Playing For Real is the story of young Josh Harrison, who inherits his dead uncle’s compute game.  As Josh egins playing, his initial boredom turns to horror when he realizes that people around him die in unimaginable ways. The game is invading his reality, choosing its victims by feeding on Josh’s negative emotions. Whoever he becomes angry with, even for a moment, becomes the next victim.  To stop the deaths, Josh must keep playing. but how can he ever hope to win, especially when the game turns on his own family?  As each nightmarish scenario unfolds, Josh frantically plays to win in a deadly race against time. But is it ever possible to win against a machine the is playing…for real?