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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A high-stakes hide-and-seek competition turns deadly in this “marvelously creepy thrill ride of a book that keeps twisting until the very end” (Karen M. McManus, author of One of Us Is Lying)
“The suspenseful plot combines elements of Thomas Tryon’s classic Harvest Home, Netflix’s Squid Game, and the social commentary of Jordan Peele’s film oeuvre and mixes these with a revelatory pacing reminiscent of Spielberg’s Jaws.”—Booklist
The challenge: Spend a week hiding in an abandoned amusement park and don’t get caught.
The prize: enough money to change everything.
Even though everyone is desperate to win—to seize a dream future or escape a haunting past—Mack is sure she can beat her competitors. All she has to do is hide, and she’s an expert at that.
It’s the reason she’s alive and her family isn’t.
But as the people around her begin disappearing one by one, Mack realizes that this competition is even more sinister than she imagined, and that together might be the only way to survive.
Fourteen competitors. Seven days. Everywhere to hide but nowhere to run.
Come out, come out, wherever you are.
“The suspenseful plot combines elements of Thomas Tryon’s classic Harvest Home, Netflix’s Squid Game, and the social commentary of Jordan Peele’s film oeuvre and mixes these with a revelatory pacing reminiscent of Spielberg’s Jaws.”—Booklist
The challenge: Spend a week hiding in an abandoned amusement park and don’t get caught.
The prize: enough money to change everything.
Even though everyone is desperate to win—to seize a dream future or escape a haunting past—Mack is sure she can beat her competitors. All she has to do is hide, and she’s an expert at that.
It’s the reason she’s alive and her family isn’t.
But as the people around her begin disappearing one by one, Mack realizes that this competition is even more sinister than she imagined, and that together might be the only way to survive.
Fourteen competitors. Seven days. Everywhere to hide but nowhere to run.
Come out, come out, wherever you are.
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3.0
“mid, enjoyable though”
“This book was so interesting! The writing style kind of threw me off in the beginning. Multiple perspectives and descriptions and events happened one after the other almost like a run on sentence so you had to pay attention to follow along. But, I really enjoyed this book! I was definitely wrong on what I thought was happening but I was pleasantly satisfied with the ending!”“2/5
I didn’t hate it but it definitely wasn’t something I fully enjoyed 🤷🏼♀️
Liked:
-abandoned amusement park + deadly competition. Great concept and it started off strong in the first couple chapters with pulling me in. I love a good creepy abandoned site as a background for a story. There’s just something about it that really solidifies the idea that “this isn’t right, you don’t belong here.” Also 50k to be the last one found in a game of hide and seek sounds insanely too good to be true (if it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, then it’s a duck).
Disliked:
-stylistic choices the author made. Give me chapter numbers please, I’m begging (I wish authors would go back to actually titling each chapter but I’ll settle for at least numbering them). Way too many characters backgrounds/POVs. I genuinely didn’t care about the majority of the other contestants. At one point Ian (the writer who never actually writes anything) has like 20 pages dedicated to him. It just felt like the multiple pov thing was done to drag the story out which is crazy because it’s only like 240 pages.
-no real world building, no lore, no good explanation for anything.
Why every seven years? Idk
What kind of monster/god did they summon? Your guess is as good as mine
It so frustrating because I truly think this could’ve been a better book if there was some background information built into the story.
-supposed to be adult but still feels like it’s ya. I don’t know if it’s because this is the authors first dip into adult fiction but to me this still comes off as more ya then anything (nothing wrong with ya but I was promised something else)”
About Kiersten White
Kiersten White is the New York Times bestselling, Bram Stoker Award-winning, and critically acclaimed author of many books, including The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein, the And I Darken trilogy, the Slayer series, and the Camelot Rising trilogy. Hide is her adult debut. White lives with her family in San Diego, where they obsessively care for their deeply ambivalent tortoise, Kimberly.
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