Mini Review: Hide by Kiersten White
5 Stars forever, Loved this character study driven suspense-filled novel
Hide by Kiersten White sucked me in from the first line to the viciously perfect end. What began as a skim of the beginning ended with me staying up waaaaay too late and waking up waaaay too early to consume this story in all of its glory. I knew from the dedication that this was going to be intense and it so is, it so perfectly is.
“To the youngest generations we’ve tasked with saving us all: You shouldn’t have to. I’m so sorry.”
I loved this book, the social commentary simmering underneath, is a scream that sinks its fangs under your skin. Intensely character-based, with elements of horror and the beauty of being human and finding your way back to choosing and wanting to live. It is found family, the sweetest subtle romance, friendship, and sacrifice.
“Just because she shouldn’t have to be so damn strong doesn’t mean that she isn’t.”
Through tremendously skilled writing, the layers of repercussions and consequences of the choices made by those who came before, only to leave behind a mess for the next generation to fix and clean, is seen and felt and it’s magnificently terrible. This book is one of my favorites of 2022 and will always have a place on my bookshelf. I am hopeful that this could be a movie someday. . .
The characters will live with me for ages and I’ll always be wondering what happens after the last page. Stupendous, intense, can’t recommend it enough. I’ve already thrown it at my family and told them to read it.
Also, Mack and Ava are everything. Throw in the friendships formed between characters, it’s just. . .chef’s kiss.
“But she doesn’t run for Ava. She runs toward Ava, trusting absolutely that Ava will be ready.”
Synopsis:
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.
A high-stakes hide-and-seek competition turns deadly in this dark supernatural thriller from New York Times bestselling author Kiersten White.
