✓ large group of strangers dwindling down à la And Then There Were None. ✓ innocent childhood game given a horror movie coating, sinisterizing the phrase 'come out, come out, wherever you are.' ✓ deadly high stakes competition set in an abandoned amusement park. This book knew just how to get my attention: Thank you to the publisher, Del Rey Books, for providing me with a copy to read and review. I was expecting more, but even though this was a miss for me, I will continue to pick up anything White writes. Overall, this was fine and I know some Readers will really enjoy it. I liked that, but eventually as you discover the truth behind the park, it could have gone deeper into those elements. The not knowing was sort of like when you first started watching Lost and you knew something was in the jungle, but you could never tell what it is. I didn't enjoy it.įurther, I promise this is it for complaints, the horror aspects were kept too obscure. I hated being in her head.Īlso, there was a plot device used to help explain the background of the contest which generally I like, but here, the execution of it, I just felt like it was too convenient. Mack, who was the person whose perspective you read from the most, didn't do it for me. Additionally, it jumped around a lot, it was hard to engage with any of the characters or what they were feeling. There were so many perspectives and characters. The writing was a little wonky for me from the very start, but I was intrigued to see where it was going regardless. Unfortunately, the bad override the good. I liked a couple things and I really disliked some things. It's taken me a long time to come to grips with how I feel about this book. This game may be more dangerous than anyone initially anticipated. The things Mack observes as she hides chill her to the bone. As she sees it, her biggest gift is her ability to hide. The main individual we follow is a young woman named Mack, who has a very violent, traumatic past. Additionally, it's not clear at all who, or what, the Seekers are. With two contestants getting caught and out of the game each day, the tension increasingly mounts.

We follow multiple different perspectives as the contest begins and a Hunger Games-type vibe falls over the narrative. The only things they really know are that it is hosted by a sporting goods company and the prize is $50,000.

Seemingly selected at random from some sort of need-based selection process, the fourteen individuals are complete strangers and come from locations scattered throughout the United States.įrom the very start the contest is shrouded in mystery. In this story we follow fourteen contestants competing in a Hide-and-Seek contest at an abandoned amusement park.

One of my all-time favorite tropes are games, or competitions, so when I heard the synopsis for Kiersten White's Adult Debut, Hide, I instantly added it to my TBR.

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