Device Free Weekend
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3.9 • 37 Ratings
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- $2.99
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- $2.99
Publisher Description
Seven friends, one eccentric billionaire, and an all-expenses-paid reunion on a private island: with no technology allowed, it’ll be a weekend to remember—for those who make it out alive.
Ryan Cloverhill, founder and CEO of the world’s most popular social media platform, invites his six best friends from college to his home on his private island near Puget Sound. For Stephen, Emma, Perry, Will, Beau, and Lainie, day one is just what the doctor ordered: amazing food, many drinks, lots of laughter, and a sunset cruise around the island aboard their host’s custom Van Dutch 55.
Day Two, however, takes a bewildering turn when the six hungover guests wake up to find that their host has disappeared, along with all connection to the mainland. A touchscreen tablet of unknown make awaits them, blatantly defying the rules of the weekend with its on-screen challenge: Unlock Me! The passcode to the tablet is hidden somewhere in the group’s shared history. But what seems at first like just another silly game turns deadly serious when the group discovers what unlocking the tablet really means. Is it the key to their futures, a Pandora’s box none of them will ever be able to close, or both?
Only one thing is clear: their old friend Ryan has something unthinkable planned. Now it’s up to the six of them to stop him. And when this weekend is over, the world will never be the same.
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This wild and woolly thriller from Doolittle (Kill Monster) gathers six keyed-up college BFFs for what amounts to a 30th reunion on the private island off Puget Sound owned by social media CEO Ryan Cloverhill, the seventh member of their circle. The first hint of anything wrong for the two married couples and one pair of exes is their host's stipulation that all devices are to be surrendered on arrival. The second, unmistakable clue, comes when the six guests wake up in Ryan's luxury compound to find no sign of him, a single blinking touchscreen tablet the only potential means of communication to the outside world, and then suddenly four of them are trapped inside the main building and the remaining two, who had gone outside, hopelessly locked out. They soon discover it's not a misguided effort by the eccentric mogul to create an escape room experience but something far more dangerous. This circus quickly careens out of the control of its ostensible ringmaster, with results dramatic, deadly, and occasionally funny. Though character takes a back seat to the high-octane action, Doolittle more than compensates with a creatively madcap adventure. Fans of TV's The White Lotus will find a lot to like.
