The Stranger Game, Peter Gadol
The Stranger Game, Peter Gadol
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The Stranger Game

Author: Peter Gadol

Narrator: Rebekkah Ross

Unabridged: 6 hr 13 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/02/2018


Synopsis

A literary suspense novel in which an eerie social game goes viral and spins perilously—and criminally—out of control.

Rebecca’s on-again, off-again boyfriend, Ezra, has gone missing, but when she notifies the police, they seem surprisingly unconcerned. They suspect he has been playing the “stranger game,” a viral hit in which players start following others in real life, as they might otherwise do on social media. As the game spreads, however, the rules begin to change, play grows more intense and disappearances are reported across the country.

Curious about this popular new obsession, and hoping that she might be able to track down Ezra, Rebecca tries the game for herself. She also meets Carey, who is willing to take the game further than she imagined possible. As her relationship with Carey and involvement in the game deepen, she begins to uncover an unsettling subculture that has infiltrated the world around her. In playing the stranger game, what may lead her closer to finding Ezra may take her further and further from the life she once lived.

A thought-provoking, haunting novel, The Stranger Game unearths the connections, both imagined and real, that we build with the people around us in the physical and digital world, and where the boundaries blur between them.

About Peter Gadol

Peter Gadol's six novels include Silver Lake, Light at Dusk and The Long Rain. His work has appeared in journals such as Tin House, StoryQuarterly, Story, Bloom and the Los Angeles Review of Books. A former NEA Fellow, Gadol lives in Los Angeles, where he is chair of MFA Writing at Otis College of Art and Design.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Berit☀️✨ on October 21, 2018

Always remember the three simple rules.... 1 pick your subjects at random. 2 NO contact. 3 never follow the same subject twice! easy enough, right? But what am I talking about, what game?These are the rules for the game sweeping the nation the “Stranger Game“... A game taking social media, reality tele......more

Goodreads review by Ivana - Diary of Difference on February 26, 2022

Blog | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | Pinterest When Rebecca's boyfriend Ezra goes missing, she knows something is not quite right. But when she reports it to the police, they don't seem to really care. They suspect he's been playing ''The Stranger Game'', a game that went viral, where people tak......more

Goodreads review by Danielle (The Blonde Likes Books) on December 04, 2018

Despite the intriguing premise of this one, The Stranger Game didn’t work for me. I loved the slight ties to the social media obsessed era we live in, and taking that to real life. That said, the mystery and suspense was lacking on this one, and the plot moved slowly. I didn’t feel the creep factor......more

Goodreads review by Liz on September 17, 2018

The Stranger Game is a strange book filled with strange characters doing strange things- weirdly compelling and beautifully voyeuristic. A fad started by a random essay finds strangers following strangers, imagining stories for them but never interacting. Rebecca's boyfriend vanishes, the police see......more

Goodreads review by Janet on October 20, 2018

A stylish psychological thriller set in Los Angeles, in the future of the day after tomorrow. The Stranger Game follows Rebecca--whose boyfriend Ezra has left her--who begins to toy with a game that is sweeping the city. The rules of the game are simple. You pick a random stranger—must be random—to......more