Dark Eden
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- £5.49
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- £5.49
Publisher Description
A quinze ans, Will est envoyé à Fort Eden, une institution spécialisée dans le traitement des phobies. Il y retrouve six autres adolescents afin de suivre un étrange traitement. Ils sont enfermés dans des « chambres de frayeur » pour être confrontés à leurs plus grandes peurs afin de les en débarrasser. Mais Will se rend compte que les choses ne fonctionnent pas comme elles le devraient. Après avoir subi ces traitements, les adolescents éprouvent des douleurs inexplicables. Que se passe-t-il réellement dans l'enceinte de ce lieu inquiétant qu'est Fort Eden ? Will va devoir le découvrir s'il veut sauver sa peau et celle de ses camarades... Pour espérer survivre, ils doivent affronter leurs peurs les plus profondes...
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Carman (the Skeleton Creek series) continues to play with the integration of print and digital media, crafting a competent but slow thriller about seven teens with serious phobias who have been sent to a last-ditch facility to help them conquer their fears. Rainsford, the man at the head of Fort Eden, uses painful, high-tech aversion therapy that works but leaves its subjects with debilitating side effects that he insists will wear off. Agoraphobic 15-year-old Will Besting takes an instant dislike to the place, hiding in the basement of an outbuilding where he discovers an electronic setup that allows him to watch the others' treatments; it eventually becomes clear that something other than therapy is going on. Though teamed up with an elaborate interactive Web site and an iPhone app, Carman's tale isn't entirely successful in making things seem as bad as Will believes; when, in what is essentially an afterword, readers discover what's behind the supposed therapy, it doesn't have the impact that it might. Still, for younger teens, the book's relatively low fear factor might be an advantage. Ages 12 up.
