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Hide

Kiersten White

Reader Score

69%

69% of readers

recommend this book

Critic Reviews

Good

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER - A high-stakes hide-and-seek competition turns deadly in this "marvelously creepy thrill ride of a book that keeps twisting until the very end" (Karen M. McManus, author of One of Us Is Lying)

"The 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

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.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Del Rey Books
  • Publish Date: May 2nd, 2023
  • Pages: 272
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.20in - 5.50in - 0.70in - 0.45lb
  • EAN: 9780593359259
  • Categories: • Thrillers - Suspense• Horror - General

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About the Author

Kiersten White is the New York Times bestselling, Bram Stoker Award-winning, and critically acclaimed author of many books, including The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein, the And I Darken trilogy, the Slayer series, and the Camelot Rising trilogy. Hide is her adult debut. White lives with her family in San Diego, where they obsessively care for their deeply ambivalent tortoise, Kimberly.

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Critics’ reviews

Praise for this book

"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 Good

"Hide is a claustrophobic thriller choked with weeds, rust, and rot. The game here is not what it seems. The hunt is swift and merciless, and the fear is primal and bestial. Don't pick up this book unless you have time to read it all in one anxious sitting."--Stephanie Perkins, New York Times bestselling author of There's Someone Inside Your House

"Haunting, startling, unrelenting, and unexpectedly heartbreaking, Hide draws you inexorably in among the thorns and rust, where the monsters are both intimately familiar and horrifyingly unfathomable."--Delilah S. Dawson, New York Times bestselling author of The Violence

"Equal parts hell-ride thriller and American fable, Kiersten White's Hide runs you through a sinister child's game set in a nightmare amusement park, and it does so with gleeful, fiendish delight. I hung on to this book with bloodless knuckles, and I adored every spine-chilling second."--Chuck Wendig, New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Accidents

"White pulls no punches in this brilliantly executed thrill ride. Every twist and turn horrified and delighted me in equal measure."--Erin A. Craig, New York Times bestselling author of House of Salt and Sorrows

"This book will live in your head rent-free. When I wasn't reading Hide, I was thinking about it--it's one of those rare books that twists itself into your consciousness. Kiersten White has outdone herself."--Victoria Lee, author of A Lesson in Vengeance

"A marvelously creepy thrill ride of a book that keeps twisting until the very end."--Karen M. McManus, #1 New York Times bestselling author of One of Us Is Lying

"The 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

"An enthralling, high-energy thriller grounded in supernatural horror . . . White skillfully balances the terrifying solo experiences of individual characters, the tense group dynamics, and the park's backstory to create a constantly shifting narrative backed by a growing sense of dread. With this exhilarating outing, White proves she has a finger on the pulse of millennial horror."--Publishers Weekly (starred review)