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DatLonerGirl
Since: Mar, 2014
16th Jan, 2015 08:16:04 AM
I think I know this one! Is it The Game of Sunken Places?
Writer, or something. And... a button? 🖲️
logzlo
Since: Dec, 2010
16th Jan, 2015 08:51:25 AM
Got it in one! Thanks so much. This has been bugging me for years.
My memory's a lot fuzzy on this one, because it was years and years ago when I was small, I heard it as an audiobook, slept through half of it, and I keep getting bits of it mixed in my mind with the Charlie Bone book I listened to on the same car trip, but here goes:
I'm not sure if this was in the book or if it was from yet another book, but I think there was a prologue where a man is wandering through the woods, lost, and he hears screaming from all around, eventually he finds a rock or tree with a bunch of names carved into it, and that's all I remember from that scene before it ended. it stuck out in my mind because I remember it being far too scary for a small child to listen to, but still excellent.
Two boys (good friends but not related), teenaged I think, are spending the summer(?) at one of the boys' uncle(?)'s house. I can't remember anything but vague generalities up to the climax. The two boys end up caught in a supernatural contest between good and evil. One boy is assigned as the champion for good, one for evil, but they're not told which, only that they must...get to a throne, I think? Wear a special crown? Something like that, and whoever got to the macguffin first won the battle of good and evil for his side.Some creepy evil dude harasses them as they try to reach the end of the game, hampering one and hindering the other. Naturally, they assume that the one being held back is the champion of good and the one being helped by the evil dude is the champion of evil.
However, at the climax, through some mechanism I can't recall, they figure out that the evil guy was manipulating them all along, tricking them into thinking they were on the sides opposite of the ones they were really on because they were too good to help the evil side. They realize this while in the room with the macguffin. The creepy guy is there too, I think, and he's trying to kill them both at this point with shurikens or razor frisbees or the like. I don't actually know if the razor frisbees are in the same scene as the climax, but they were definitely there. I don't remember how it ends.
Any ideas, tropers? The release date could be anywhere from late 90's to mid-2000's, or maybe even earlier.