Mack is without home, family, or hope. She's tricked into entering a hide-and-seek contest in an old amusement park. The rules are simple: 15 people spend 7 days hiding in the abandoned park, and the last to be found wins $50,000. None of the contestants know it, but they are all connected to the town, to each other, and to the thing they will be hiding from. And the prize isn't $50,000, but one of their lives. (I'm not considering that to be a spoiler because come on. Of course that's what's happening.)

I've never read a book with this many characters that did such a good job of distinguishing their names, voices, and backstories. You feel for almost everyone in this grown up Hunger Games, and you want them all to live. The town's secret is spectacular, and the way you slowly discover it is perfect. I would happily read a dozen prequels leading up to this story.

First i will like to thank #netgalley and #delray for a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review!

3.75 stars

First i was really intrigued by the concept of the book as it sounded really spooky and right up my alley to be honest. Overall i did enjoy this book a lot as it sucked me right in and left me wanting more and more. There are some really Erie moments and times there things were not right at all.

I have to say something i personally felt that was lacking was the backstory of the whole concept because while i understood why everything was happening i wanted to know more and more and why some people, could see things and others couldn’t,

Other than that i really liked the book and found it to be a fun read suspense read overall!

I loved the premise of this book! I wanted to love the story, but it fell so short for me. I think the pacing was my main complaint. The opening grabs you but then the next quarter of the book just drags on and on. Once you get to the action, you've heard the same character backstories at least a dozen times each so it feels really bizarre to keep including them. Satisfying ending though!

I wanted to like Hide by Kiersten White, but this one was just not for me. There was way too many characters to keep straight or form a genuine connection with. They just blurred together. The main character also was not even remotely interesting. Additionally, the horror element was sorely missing. The description and cover promised something more terrifying than was delivered. What sounded like an interesting premise from an author I've liked in the past, turned out to be a rather dull book. I'd pass on this one.

4 stars. I want to start off by saying I enjoyed the book. However, the different sections not having the names of who we were following was a little disconcerting and took me out of the story a bit. I will definitely have to reread this because I know I missed some stuff with how hectic the book was.

A group of people enter an abandoned and presumably haunted amusement park for a chance to win 50k. Sounds great right? Unfortunately there were a lot of issues with this book that made it something I just did not enjoy. First of all, there were way too many characters that I couldn't keep them straight nor were any of them fleshed out enough for me to care about whether they made it or not. One thing that I just couldn't get over was that this book is written in 3rd person omniscient. There was so much head hopping, it made my head spin. Not only that but 3rd person present tense. I hate 3rd person present. It makes my brain hurt.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publishers for this ARC, but this book was not for me.

I don't know what to say about this one. I was really looking forward to it. However, I just really didn't end up liking it. I think it's partly cause I thought this be a fun amusement park slasher. However, there was a lot more to this book then that. I wasn't expecting. I'm really bummed about this because the moment I heard about it I was super hyped. :(

Unfortunately this one was not for me. I found it too hard to get into and care - there are too many characters for me at first and they all ran together for me. I felt like the plot was on repeat: go hide, talk about wanting to pee, go back to camp, and oops there are 1-2 people missing. Over and over. I dunno. And the twist was not really one for me, either. As an adult debut it read to YA for me - which can be fine, I love YA. But that impacted the experience for me. Everything seemed surface level and I never connected or got pulled in to any plot point or rooted for any character (maybe Mack and her past experiences and how they get put to the test...). And I really think I just read/watched something that had similar themes, but I cannot place my finger on what it was.

A lot of my friends have enjoyed this, so go read their reviews if you need to be hyped up for it. I, sadly, can do no hyping this time.

"If it's a game, win," Ava says, her voice fierce. "And it it's not, survive."

Come out, come out, whereever you are!

Who doesn't like Hide and Seek? Who hasn't played it? Who will be the winner?

The fourteen contestants all want to win. There is a lot of money on the table, and they all are motivated to play, to win, and to change their lives. How hard can it be? Hide during the day and come back to camp at night.

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!

I've love Kiersten White for years since I read her Paranormalcy series way back when so I was super stoked to get an ARC of this book because horror is my real forte. This book read like a horror movie and it absolutely thrilled me because those are some of my favorite horror novels. The ones that feel like you're watching a horror movie play out on screen just waiting for the killer to make their next move and wondering which of the characters is going to survive until the end. For a YA horror novel I really enjoyed this book and highly recommend it to anyone that loves an good horror book/movie.

This book was insane in all the right ways.
Took me on a wild ride, I highly enjoyed
reading this, from beginning to end.
Amazing world building and storytelling.
It has enough dark, grit, and twisted elements
that keeps you devouring the pages.
Loveeed it!!!

14 people are gathered together to compete in a week long hide and seek competition, with the goal of winning $50,000. All they have to do is hide from sun up to sun down...in an abandoned amusement park.

With multiple POVs you get an understanding of why so many of the characters were willing to enter the competition. You also get a sneak into the fact that something more sinister is afoot in the amusement park. Even after day one some of the other competitors aren't returning to their base camp and the others start to hear strange noises of something lurking through the park.

Overall I really enjoyed the book, it gave me Hunger Games vibes from the very beginning with a more realistic edge to it. The only thing I think was missing from the book was more of a creep factor I just wanted to be put on edge a bit more than I was.

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4708773891

Como vocês já sabem, essa resenha é em parceria com a Random House Internacional, de quem recebemos esse eARC (Advance reading copy: algo como “uma cópia de leitura avançada, ou seja, o livro ainda pode sofrer alterações antes de ser publicado). Também lembrando que essa resenha terá um formato diferente: por ser um ARC, não haverão quotes, já como os livros podem sofrer mudanças em seu texto antes de serem comercializados. Gostaríamos de agradecer profundamente a Editora pela oportunidade de parceria.

Desde o minuto em que eu vi a sinopse de “Hide” eu sabia que teria que ler ele. Ele vem assim nessa sinopse já com toda uma vibe de que daria um ótimo filme de terror ruim e por isso mesmo eu não podia deixar passar.

Então, logo no início nós somos introduzidos a personagem principal do livro, que se chama Mack, o que nós sabemos sobre ela de cara no início é que ela é uma órfã, única sobrevivente de um massacre que aconteceu anos atrás e que ela “mora” em um abrigo que todas as noites recebe pessoas em situação de rua.

Quando somos apresentados a ela, ao mesmo tempo somos apresentados ao reality show para o qual dão a ideia para que ela se inscreva: meio que uma mistura entre “Jogos Vorazes” e aquelas brincadeiras de “escape room” tem esse reality show que está em fase de desenvolvimento e tudo que ela tem que fazer é participar de uma brincadeira de esconde-esconde: ela vai com esse grupo de pessoas para um acampamento e lá, sempre ao raiar do dia, ela tem que sair do acampamento e se esconder o melhor possível até o anoitecer por 7 dias. Quem for pego pelos “olheiros” perde o jogo, mas quem ficar até o final ganha milhões de dólares.

Então, assim como somos apresentados para Mack, vamos vendo tudo pelo ponto de vista dela até o momento em que ela conhece os outros participantes: sendo ao todo 14, nós somos introduzidos a eles e vemos pequenos pedaços da mente deles, o que nos mostra que, mesmo aqueles que logo saem do jogo, todos eles tem algum passado complexo, alguma coisa “a esconder” ou alguma coisa pela qual eles sofrem e querem estar ali porque só o dinheiro do prêmio poderia ajudar.

Apesar de ter os pontos de vista dos outros participantes também, não é nada absurdo demais cada ponto de vista a ponto de nos deixar confusos ou sem entender bem o que está rolando na história – acho que desde o princípio fica muito subentendido que tem muito mais rolando ali do que um mero reality show, que tem algo por trás de tudo que acontece.

Assim sendo, logo quando a primeira noite chega, depois de passarem o dia todo se escondendo, e duas pessoas não voltam porque já “perderam” o jogo, os outros jogadores vão começando a ficar mais atentos – e nem assim eles conseguiriam imaginar o que realmente acontece ali: mas isso nem eu posso contar para não tirar a graça de todo o mistério do livro.

Esse livro me deixou completamente presa do primeiro ao último minuto porque eu sentia que podia acabar arrancando meus cabelos se eu não descobrisse EXATAMENTE o que estava rolando. Muitas dicas são deixadas pelo livro, pequenos detalhes que aos poucos vão se encaixando, mas quando tudo enfim se encaixa de uma vez, a única reação que define é: “!!!!!!!” porque assim, você fica sem palavras.

É realmente uma mistura de Jogos Vorazes com vários filmes de terror classe b, e muitas pessoas que são fãs de filmes de terror provavelmente vão pegar as dicas no ar, mas de toda forma, a explicação toda é muito gostosa de se ler e satisfatória. Isso sem mencionar que, como eu disse, todos os personagens a quem somos apresentados, desde a nossa protagonista (que é uma ótima final girl, aliás, teve um momento em que eu pensei que iria odiar ela, mas graças a deus não!) até os “vilões” da história, todos são muito bem feitos e é divertido acompanhar a saga deles pelas páginas desse livro e assim, o livro tem uma grande representatividade e um casal que se forma no “reality” é sáfico! (Isso não é necessariamente um spoiler, porque já fica na cara desde o início que elas seriam um casal, pelo menos eu acho, porém não vou dar nomes aqui)

O livro deixa o final meio em aberto, imagino que propositalmente para você decidir qual o desfecho melhor para aquela história e aquilo tudo que acontece ali e eu sei bem qual o final que eu imagino que teve realmente.

Fica aqui essa indicação: se você gosta bastante de filmes de terror, se gosta de fantasia e de suspense e de ficar presa quase sem respirar direito de tanta curiosidade para saber o que as páginas seguintes te revelam: dê uma chance para “Hide” e depois vem me falar qual o final que você imagina pra história 😉

Thanks for the free book, Penguin Random House International.

This book in some ways gave me the same vibes as Cabin in the Woods, but it wasn't as good as Cabin in the Woods. Let me explain:

Characters: Most of the 14 characters that are put in this massive amusement park got a small section where we were following them. This led to us getting barebone knowledge of many of the characters. Only 2 or 3 of them are fleshed out at all besides their stereotypes. The 'villain' of the group of them could've been an interesting side antagonist to the main antagonists. If we had just followed one person, Kiersten could've gotten away with not fleshing the other characters out because then we'd only know what the one person knew. The main antagonists were very interesting, and I'd like to read more about them. The creature thing that's in the book is only seen maybe once or twice. I wish we hadn't seen it at all because that wasn't enough.

Atmosphere: The abandoned amusement park was such an amazing place to have a horror novel. I would've loved to have more descriptions of the park. The small town around the park was also fascinating, but I wanted more.

Writing: The writing was okay. It would've been better if it was 1 or 2 perspectives versus many.

Plot: I think that the set-up was interesting. It was giving me the same vibes as Cabin in the Woods, but it wasn't as clever as the Cabin in the Woods. I was expecting a massive showdown at the end, but it fell flat, and it ended very suddenly with no pay off whatsoever.

Intrigue: I was interested in the cult aspect of the novel and wish there was more of that. This book didn't flesh out any of the interesting bits, and when things got to be interesting, the book ended.

Logic: I mean cults are very real and very scary. I wouldn't be surprised if there was a cult like this out there in the world. It followed its own logic well.

Enjoyment: This was just kind of meh. The ending really ruined it for me to be honest. I needed more interesting characters who were fleshed out and more about this cult. Three stars.

This book was not at all what I expected it to be but I don't think it's necessarily a bad thing?

I really love the omniscient writing in Hide, it was a perfect way to manage the large (yet shrinking) cast of characters that come to participate in the "competition." Mack's backstory was horrific, and while I knew this book was a "horror" novel I did not realize how genuinely scary it was going to be. I had a nightmare about this book one night after I had finished about half of it. Really incredible story telling, and while the book does go off the rails by the end, you are forced to hang on until the very last page.

I finished this book with feeling of disappointment. It was lackluster at best. I initially had such high hopes for this book. The premise was that a group of individuals must hide at an abandoned amusement park from an ominous being might hunt them down and kill them.

There were several reasons for my 2 star opinion regarding Hide. The first being that there were simply too many characters to keep track of in this Hunger Games trope of elimination. 7 men and 7 women are bused into an abandoned amusement park with the ominous dread of something hunting them down with two people getting eliminated every day. I never got attached to any of the characters. I wasn't driven to care about them. The author even wrote two of the women with the SAME name. We had beautiful Ava and "gay, other, Ava". (the author's adjectives, not mine).

In author 101 it must be noted that you should NEVEr have two characters with the same name or even the same, starting letter. It causes confusion with readers and lead to me writing out names of all 14 contestant with descriptions. The two Avas served no purpose for the dual naming.

Another reason for my 2 star opinion was that the book was over hyped in it's cover flap description and under performed. I was never scared of the monster. The book would've benefited strongly with a dual timeline with the reader getting a deeper explanation as to how the monster came to be and why the families did what they did. The author implies what happened but we could've been brought back 100 years and learned additional details. The opportunity was lost on this possibility which should've been a suggestion from the editor.

In areas where the specific plot is unknown by the readers we then need passages in between which are suspenseful and push our curiosity. I didn't get the feeling of wanting to turn the page to learn more. I felt no anticipation what-so-ever.

Other passages contained the POV from one character and then would shift mid-paragraph to another character's thoughts. I had to reread paragraphs several times to figure out who's thoughts I was reading.

The book also ended abruptly. Generally, I'm pleased when an author keeps a book at 300 pages or shorter. In this instance we could've benefitted with the additional development of two timelines and multiple points of view from one character in the past when the monster was created to the current timeline.

This was supposed to be an adult debut, but I was really disappointed to find that this novel was extremely young adult. Characters are flat and the story is just very juvenile.

I put off the review for this one for so long because I was just so utterly disappointed with the wasted potential and execution of Hide.

One of the reasons that I really enjoy White as an author is that she has the ability to really tap into unsettling and downright chilling atmospheres with her writing, and we definitely get some glimpses of that within this story. I also love that White wasn’t afraid of making the big bad an actual monstrous beast versus the magical realism that tends to happen in these types of thrilling novels. That being said, that’s really all this book had going for it.

I think far too much time was wasted on introducing the reader to a myriad of characters that do not end up adding at all to the plot since they are merely placeholders to fill out the numbers for this “competition”.

Another criticism is that White walks the line of trying to have some really great social justice teaching moments, but they end up just completely missing the mark so the book comes off as unnecessarily preachy.

The premise of this book is incredible, but the execution just completely fell flat. So much wasted potential.

This was an interesting book- an adult version of hide and seek, but at what end result. You knew something want right when people
In the abandoned theme park didn’t come back at night. But, you didn’t know just how wrong things were and how long this tradition had been going on.. I enjoyed the writing even if the story wasn’t my favorite..

Thank you @netgalley and @delreybooks for gifting me this E-book for my reading and reviewing pleasure for an unbiased review.

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𝑪𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝒐𝒖𝒕, 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝒐𝒖𝒕, 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒂𝒓𝒆.

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗴𝗲: spend a week hiding in an abandoned amusement park and don’t get caught.
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗶𝘇𝗲: enough money to change everything.
𝐅𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐬. 𝐒𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐝𝐚𝐲𝐬. 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐡𝐢𝐝𝐞, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐧𝐨𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐫𝐮𝐧.
Even though everyone is desperate to win—to seize their dream futures or escape their haunting pasts—Mack feels sure that 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 this competition is more sinister than even she imagined, and that together might be the only way to survive.

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14 contestants have been invited to play an epic gave of hide and seek in an abandoned amusement park. Their task is to make it 7 days without being found and the winner will get 50,000. As the week goes on some of the contestants start to get suspicious that something more be going on and the truth is beyond any of their nightmares.

I found the story to be pretty predictable but it was still a bit entertaining. I feel like this would have made a better slasher horror movie where the viewer goes in expecting to suspend all disbelief.

There are quite a few characters (and giving two of them the same name is confusing in a book that already has too many characters), and most of them are varying shades of self-centered and unlikability. Mack is a somewhat dubious hero with a clear save-herself-first mentality, and I liked watching her break out of that over the course of the novel.

All in all this was an entertaining read but be expecting a lot of disbelieving tales in this story.

TW: sexism, homophobia, bullying, lose of sibling, language,

<b><big>*****SPOILERS*****</b></big>
<b>About the book:</b>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 their dream futures or escape their haunting pasts--Mack feels sure that 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 this competition is more sinister than even she imagined, and that together might be the only way to survive.Fourteen competitors. Seven days. Everywhere to hide, but nowhere to run.
<b>Release Date:</b> May 24th, 2022
<b>Genre:</b> Horror
<b>Pages:</b> 256
<b>Rating:</b> ⭐ ⭐ ⭐

<b>What I Liked:</b>
1. The plot sounded fun
2. I love the yellow cover
3. The writing style is nice
4. Non-stop things happening

<b>What I Didn't Like:</b>
1. This felt way too YA
2. Beautiful Rebecca mentioned too much
3. Who are these people - no back stories to make me care
4. 14 people is too many people in a book - even if they are never explained
5. Book drags

<b>Overall Thoughts:</b> So we start off right at the point where people are offered the opportunity to go do the challenge. The whole time I kept asking myself a few things. Who are these people? I know nothing about them. Why did they decide to join? How did they find people to ask to join the challenge? Did anyone say no? I find it hard to care about people when I haven't had the chance to even know who they are. The book is a little over 200 pages but I feel like the author could have take maybe 25 more pages to make us care about them.

Also I refuse REFUSE to accept that these are adults in the book. This is reading so hard like a YA. This is a quote from the book from Brandon.
<i>He can’t decide which he likes best: the hiding, which is exciting even if it is kind of boring, or hanging out with everyone after. He hopes they’ll keep in touch when the game is over. Maybe even come visit him. Or he could visit them! He really likes Ava, even if her buzzed hair intimidates him. He suspects she’s a lesbian, which is super cool. He’s never been friends with a lesbian before. He doesn’t think they have any in Idaho. And Mack is quiet but he likes her and he’s sure she likes him. Jaden and Christian seem too much like the big-city kids in Boise who have dads and summer cabins on the Snake River and steal things from the gas station even though they have money. But the other Ava, well, he can barely talk to her, she’s so pretty. Rebecca, too. And Rosiee. He likes them all. Except Jaden and Christian. But that’s unfair of him, because he doesn’t even know them.</i> It is like something a 14-year old would say. The writing comes off really cheesy.

I found the characters very immature and boring. It felt like they spent more talking about crushes than the game.

The book draggggggggged for me. It felt so long and like it would never end. I started losing interest around the 100 page mark. A book that's only 250 pages shouldn't be so slow it feels felt like I was reading a 1000 page book.
(gif will it ever end)

<b>Final Thoughts:</b> Well it was just okay. Pretty over-hyped book honestly that ended on a low end. I liked the overall idea of this books existence.

<b>Recommend For:</b>
• Readers that love amusement parks
• People competing for a prize
• Younger characters

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