Hide: The book you need after Squid Game

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Seven days. That is not a long time. You must be better than the others at hiding and maybe, just maybe, you could be the winner! When I say I loved Hide I mean I loved it, the story, the characters, the setting, it was one of those books that stayed with me, made me buy a physical copy to annotate, and kept looking for news about it. The graphic novel took it to another level and gave me so much more of an experience.

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Haunting, startling, unrelenting, and unexpectedly heartbreaking, Hide draws you inexorably in among the thorns and rust, where the monsters are both intimately familiar and horrifyinglyunfathomable.” —Delilah S. Dawson, New York Times bestselling author of The ViolenceThe 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 Overall, this is an enjoyable story. I decided to open it up and read whenever I would have freetime and didn't have another book on me. Unfortunately, I did not quite like it enough to read on other time. Thank you to Random House Publishing Group - Ballantine, Del Rey and NetGalley who provided me with a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. All the thoughts and opinions are my own. As I kept reading, this novel just drags on to the point of it being a complete snoozefest. I’m not sure why this is even considered to be a horror novel as it doesn’t have anything scary, crazy, or terrifying enough to keep you up at night. This felt more like a sci-fi/young adult novel than horror. Yeah, there are some parts that dabble in horror but it’s not fully fleshed out enough to scar you as it typically should. I thought the few scary situations in this one were very lame.

Hide by Kiersten White — Cloud Lake Literary Book Review: Hide by Kiersten White — Cloud Lake Literary

There is nothing creepier than an abandoned amusement park, especially when Kiersten White is writing about it. Each character is astonishingly real and the pacing is spot-on. This book held me captive, I couldn't put it down. Samantha Downing, Internationally Bestselling author of My Lovely Wife Scott Peterson, Veronica Fish, and Andy Fish I have to say thank you for bringing one of my favorite books to such a vibrant and visually gratifying version, I had very high hopes for this one and you exceeded all of them. There is nothing creepier than an abandoned amusement park, especially when Kiersten White is writing about it. This book held me captive; I couldn’t put it down.” —Samantha Downing,internationally bestselling author of For Your Own GoodOverall, many people may enjoy this book, it just was not for me due to subject matter that I don't care to read.

Hide by Kiersten White - Publishers Weekly Hide by Kiersten White - Publishers Weekly

The Olly Olly Oxen Free Hide and Seek Tournament rules are specific: 14 competitors, seven days. It’s basically children’s game. The award is: 50K! People pretend things aren’t wrong, even when they can feel the truth, because they’re too afraid of what it means to look right at the horror, right at the wrongness, to face the truth in all its terrible glory. Like little kids, playing hide-and-seek. If they can’t see the monster, it can’t get them. But it can. It always can. And while you aren’t looking, it’s eating everyone around you.” We follow multiple different perspectives as the contest begins and a Hunger Games-type vibe falls over the narrative. Trigger/Content Warnings: murder, blood and gore, suicide, murder of children, loss of parents, loss of a sibling, homelessness, homophobia, sexism, racism, classism, animal death, high-demand religion/cult (mentioned)innocent childhood game given a horror movie coating, sinisterizing the phrase "come out, come out, wherever you are..."