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"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.
Chuck Wendig is an author and comic book writer.
Congrats to @kierstenwhite, whose masterful adult debut HIDE is out today. A horrific, thrilling middle-finger to the notion of the prosperity gospel. I loved it. So will you, because you're all good people.
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"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)