So, in the vein of "How Much To..." the company that puts out the pay-per-view shows that everyone loves to watch has come up with a new idea.

The "host" goes to a local prison and selects a group of "contestants" who agree to leave the prison for the "opportunity" to "win" their freedom. The group in this case is from a woman's prison. There is the usual bit of backstory along with the POV of the women as they are brought into the story, no one is really likeable. They agree to get on a bus and be driven to a "haunted house" where the ones who manage to make it "all night" are given automatic pardons and are free to leave.

Well, if you are a fan of this series you know that isn't what happens.

After a bit of back and forth between the "host" and the crew who film, the women, and various & sundry we get all the women into a sad house off the beaten path. The women are brought into a room with chairs and a video ready to play. The "host" says that all their questions will be answered and then pushes play, and leaves - locking the door behind him. This is where the film crew and the host wait outside, just picking their noses while time is ticking along.

The women in the room, these prisoners who think they are there for some "game show" to spend the night in some "haunted house" are actually being set up for a "hunger games" last-one-standing murder frenzy. Until everyone but the "winner" is killed, the doors won't open. There are various weapons hidden throughout the house, enough so that each "lady" has a weapon. Meanwhile there are hidden cameras everyone set up to beam the carnage to the waiting viewers who paid for the show.

This story kind of goes in a non-linear fashion where between one paragraph and the next you are either in the past (a previous episode of this show) seeing what happened to contestants, in the past of the women prisoners, or the past of the host. It is told in a "god" pov where everyone is in third person, but the narrative can change in a sentence.

The ending is a kind of wtf, in that the reader isn't quite sure of what they read, since the ending includes some back and forth about the show with the producer and the lighting man, that may or may not have lead the book to read as it did. I can't get into it without spoiling it, but if you read it and it's done, you know what I mean.

There are no real graphic or gross things, it's much tamer than the other books in this series. In fact, it was the tamest I have read by Matt Shaw in whole. It can be read alone, or as a part of the series. I think that the first three books are by far the best in the series.

It took me forever to finish it because I started it when it came up on my Kindle as a pre-order (don't pre-order if you have Kindle Unlimited because these books all end up being available that way), and I pretty much lost interest within the first 30 pages. I only finished it because I paid for the book, I read and loved the series, and I was hoping it would get better.

There is another book in this series that is poised for release in March, I will read it, but I won't pay for it. I have already deleted this book from Amazon so I don't have to "trip" over it every time I check out my Amazon library.
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