Title: Hide

Author: Kiersten White

Publisher: Del Rey Books 2022

Genre: Horror

Pages: 319

Rating: 4/5 stars

Reading Challenges:

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.

An overall entertaining horror novel. This wasn’t the best I’ve ever read, but it definitely kept me wanting to turn the pages and see what happened next. We start with a fairly unlikable character, Mack, that I never can to love, but definitely came to understand by the end of the book. We throw in 13 more contestants and a few game organizers and set them loose in an abandoned amusement park. Chaos and murder ensues. I figured out the big allusion to another story by the end of Day 1, but knowing the big secret didn’t deter me from continuing to read. I still found it a very entertaining ride. There is gore (a lot of it), murder, and suicide. Not a book for everyone, but I enjoyed it nonetheless.

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