Loved this book. The narrator was great as well. I felt engaged and drawn into the story every step of the way. I'm going to be recommending this book to others!

It's official Jennifer Hillier is now one of my auto-buy authors. She is such a great writer. I was hooked from the start. I mean how could you not be? Most of the setting took place in Wonderland, the towns creepy amusement park. I love being creeped out. I would totally go into the Clown Museum.

The story has multiple POVs, which I love. It's nice getting the story told by different people! And some of those twists...I. DID. NOT. SEE. COMING! I love it when I am caught off guard. I really enjoyed the characters. I would LOVE to see another book with Vanessa Castro. It's refreshing to see a bad ass female cop!

I would highly recommend this audiobook!! It was fantastic. Usually when listening to audiobooks with multiple POVs I like having different voices for each one, but the narrator nailed it. Go give it a listen!! Thank you to NetGalley, Macmillan Audio and Jennifer Hillier for the audiobook!

In Seaside everyone works at wonderland, and some simply never leave. There’s a new Deputy in town and her first day she is notified of a decomposed body in the park and many missing people. Her daughter Ava has the privilege of working in the clown house at the age of 14 but everyone knows the minimum age to work there is 16. She starts Getting creepy vibes until she’s locked in her dressing room with no way out. Will she get out alive or will she just end up as the other wonderland victims? Thank you NetGalley for the chance to read this book in exchange for my honest feedback!

Amusement parks already creep me out a bit when they have that carnival feel. Jennifer Hillier provides this twisty, spooky atmosphere and more in this police procedural thriller. Vanessa arrives to her first day on the job with the police department in a small town when she learns that a dead man has wound up at Wonderland, the local amusement park. In addition, a teen has gone missing after a stunt that went viral on social media. What follows is enough to give you chills and having you turning on all the lights.

What was great:
- the setting of the park and the pacific northwest
- enough suspicious characters to keep you guessing
- a strong, smart female police woman

Not my favorite:
= a weird hookup that didn't seem necessary to the story
- the shifting back and forth of varying character's POVs
- the all-to-quick wrap up at the end; just as it was building, it ended in a flash

The audio was very well done. While the narrative did shift, the voices were done well and never took me out of the story. Overall, I enjoyed this and gave it 4 stars. This is my second book by Hillier. Her writing is great and I love the tone of her books. I am looking forward to future releases.

The narrator was wonderful! Really enjoyed this story and loved seeing characters from other books. I literally had no clue who the killer was until the very end—twisty and so corrupt!

Thank you to Netgalley, the author and the publisher for a chance to read and review this audiobook. I found it to be your standard murder mystery and nothing stood out to me as shocking. The narrator of the audiobook was great and I enjoyed listening to this on my drives to work.

Jennifer Hillier has quickly become one of my must-read, recommend-to-everyone authors. Her ability to wind a twisty, atmospheric tale is always a delight and Wonderland is no exception!

Seaside, Washington is home to Wonderland, the most popular amusement park in the PNW. The park employs many of the town's residents and keeps the local economy booming. Therefore, it's imperative that Wonderland maintain a good reputation.

Deputy police chief Vanessa Castro has just moved to Seaside from Seattle when the unrecognizable body of a homeless man is found rotting on Wonderland's midway. That same day, a local teenage boy goes missing from inside that same park. Fearing what bad publicity will do to Wonderland, and therefore the town, almost everyone involved wants to wrap things up as quickly and quietly as possible. Unfortunately for them, newbie Vanessa is unwillingly to play by their rules. As she digs into Wonderland's history, more secrets surface and more questions arise. Not everything is as it appears in this magical, yet eerie, place.

As someone who frequently visits a nearby theme park, I found the premise of this novel to be pretty intriguing. A creepy amusement park with a questionable history? Sign me up! The story took off with a bang and I was invested throughout. I will say that I was able to solve the Wonderland mystery fairly early on, but I'm not necessarily upset about it (likely due to the brilliant audiobook narration and Hillier's ability to spin a pretty great tale). Overall, this one was a fun ride and I was left feeling quite content.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for the ability to listen to this story.

Vanessa Castro has just started her new job in a new town, popular for it's theme park, Wonderland. Her first day on duty, a body turns up, unrecognizable, at the theme park. The theme park where Castro's teenage daughter has just started working.

There are many stories of scandal (and young men preyed on by the park's current owner), not to mention family scandal at the top of the hierarchy. And other disappearances from the past come to light through the investigation.

What secrets is Wonderland hiding? How can Chief Castro protect her family throughout her investigation of a serial killer? And how is her new love interest factored into all of this? So many questions to answer, and so many twists unveiled.

Holy moly…every time I read one of Jennifer’s books, I think she can’t top herself …Boy was I wrong. I chose this as my first audiobook since she is one of my favorite authors , and since it seemed like a fun thriller. The narrator kept me intrigued from the get go, and I loved the carnival background( nothing is scarier than clowns in mu opinion!). While I did feel this mystery was more predictable than her other books I have read, I devoured this book in a weekend! Hillier can do no wrong for me :)

Featuring ~ multiple 3rd person POV, missing teens, police procedural, serial killer, dark thriller, attempted r@pe, imprisonment, abuse (I might be missing some triggers)

We have a few main characters:
Blake ~ missing Wonderland worker, Vanessa ~ new deputy police chief, Oscar ~ security guard at Wonderland, Bianca ~ CEO of Wonderland who likes to sleep with the teenage staff, and Ava ~ Vanessa's daughter who just started working at Wonderland.

Vanessa begins her new position with dead bodies and missing teens. I found her to be a great investigator and she acted like she really cared about the missing boys. She certainly did a better job than her predecessor.

This is a pretty dark read with more sexual encounters than I would have expected from a thriller. Overall, it was fast paced with some predictability, some twists and a whole lotta creepiness.

Narration:
Eunice Wong ~ 11 hours 39 minutes ~ a great job.

Oh. MY. GOODNESS!!! This audiobook was so good! There were so many twists and turns! I could not stop listening. There was nothing predictable about this story. I loved the setting...it was so perfect. I loved the characters, there was so much depth to them. Layers and layers of depth! I am excited there are other books by this truly talented writer. I cannot wait to read more!!! Be warned when you pick this book or audiobook, you will not get much done done once you start reading or listening!

I’ve had Wonderland on my TBR for way too long, and so when Macmillan Audio reached out with the new release of the audiobook, I was beyond excited to finally read this one. True to form, Jennifer Hillier did not disappoint. The audio is fantastic, the narrator did an awesome job of building the suspense here, which is wonderful as it is suspenseful enough with the setting alone. Wonderland is an amusement park that is the lifeblood of the small town of Seaside, however there have always been rumors of dark things going on inside. And then a dead body turns up for all to see, and it just happens to be when Vanessa Castro starts her first day as deputy police chief.

This was twisty, dark, and a page turner the whole way through, and I absolutely loved it. I guessed a few things but not all, and it was true to Hillier’s dark and disturbing form, she is just so good at this and is a favorite of mine. I listened to this in one setting as I could not get enough, and I highly recommend this one for thriller fans, it is so, so good!

Thank you to NetGalley and Macmillan Audio for the digital copy to review. This one is available now.

I loved this book so much! I really didn’t know what it was about when I started reading it, but I quickly was obsessed! The characters are well developed, and I couldn’t help but love them all!

I had already read Wonderland by Jennifer Hillier… however… listening to it as an audiobook was a pleasant experience. Im really getting into audiobooks.
Wonderland is set in an amusement park with many creepy characters. The author knows how to keep you wanting more and more.
Thank you to the publisher and author for such a great few hours of listening pleasure. By the way… the narrator was phenomenal!

The narration was good! I enjoyed the pacing and her reading made for an enjoyable listen. She captured the essence of a middle grade John-John perfectly because honestly, I wanted to fast-forward through his parts. Despite the solid narration, this book took a hot minute to hook me. There seemed to be a lot going on, yet it felt like nothing was really happening for the first third of the book. I’ll be honest, it took me weeks to get though because of the slow start. Once it picked up though, I came around to enjoy the rest and I honestly wished I just pushed through sooner.

I really liked the main character Vanessa and how she wasn’t afraid to take action or to rock the boat. I also really loved that it was the same Vanessa (the PI) from Little Secrets. The big reveal did take me by surprise and I really didn't see it coming. The plot of the novel was middle of the road for me, but the atmospheric setting and the narration were spot-on.

Everyone loves amusement parks because they are so much fun!

Wonderland.is a magical place for children, who like cotton candy, and rides galore. One of the many highlights is the giant Wonder Wheel which happens to be the oldest Ferris wheel in the Pacific Northwest. But something creepy is going on maybe even sinister. There seems to be a feeling of dread over the park. Maybe it’s the Clown Museum, home to creepy wax replicas of movie stars and a massive collection of antique porcelain dolls, or the terrifyingly House of Horrors. Or could it be the dead, decaying body left along the midway?!

Today is Vanessa Castro’s first day as deputy police chief of Seaside, Washington, and her first investigation. What a way to start! The body is an unidentifiable homeless man. To top that off, a picture has been left by a defiant teenage employee at the top of the Wonder Wheel. It doesn’t take long for the news of the two seemingly unrelated crimes to go viral.

Vanessa’s investigation leads her down a puzzling and disturbing path of missing persons that goes back decades. The park’s dark history is finally being revealed and it’s ugly!

I found this story to be quite creepy and twisted. The girls dressing up as live dolls would have done me in as a park visitor.

Jennifer Hillier’s bone-chilling thriller is masterful, fast-paced, hurtling, shocking, and deadly.

I highly recommend this audio book if you want to be thrilled. I’m happy to have been introduced to a new author for me to love.

I really enjoyed this thriller! Vanessa was such a tough and likable lead character amidst a sea of unlikeable ones! It was dark and twisty and I was shocked by the reveals. Very entertaining from the beginning and the lightning fast pacing kept me glued to the story!

Very good audiobook. Kept my interest the entire way. A few turns I didn’t seem coming. I REALLY liked the theme park aspect of this book, not sure I’ve ever read a book about a theme park setting before.

Wow! What a great story with many twists and turns. Can’t wait to pick up another book by this author. Thanks NetGalley for the audio eArc.

I love Jennifer Hillier.  She's an autobuy author for me and this book did not disappoint! Some of the characters definitely give you the creeps but that just makes for a better book in my opinion. 

I read a ton of thrillers and sometimes I can guess the ending but as long as the story is good, I don't mind the predictability.  However, once in a while I read a book with a twist that catches me off guard and it's the best thing ever!  This was that book!

If you haven’t read the book or listened to the audio and you love thrillers, definitely give them one a try!