Publisher: Del Ray Books
Publication date: May 2022
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.
Come out, come out, wherever you are.
Hide follows Mack and thirteen other contestants in a giant game of Hide and Seek in an abandoned and run down amusement park . The winner gets 50,000. Only it turns out that things are a bit more sinister than that. What can I say about hide? I'll be honest, it wasn't good.
This is supposed to be an adult horror, but it read as very YA and not really horror. The characters acted and talked like teenagers. The characters were plentiful as well as their points of view. There were too many and the transitions were hard to catch. There was an attempt at some back story for each contestant, but I found I didn't care. None of them were very likable. I would have liked it if the story focused on one or maybe two characters only.
The biggest disappointment was the plot itself. It was kind of boring. I wanted more of the game. There wasn't enough of it. The ending was dumb. It was like the author couldn't figure out how to end it, so she just gave us that throw away line. I do not recommend this one.
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