Hide: The book you need after Squid Game

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Creature these crazy people summoned or whatever to eat peeps every seven years so they could have great lives. Jerks Also, in the author's note she mentions something about this being a treatise about race/class/whatever. Nah, it doesn't even come close to going there. I was really looking forward to this book coming out, but it ended up being a big letdown. I first read the blurb and was hoping for something like Fantasticland. Instead, I got something more like Clown in a Cornfield, that took itself too seriously and got rid of the fun . Taken into a shelter they are given the rules, from dawn until dusk the game is on, hide or be eliminated if found. They are told that two of them will be eliminated each day and after that return to the base until the next day when the hunt begins again. To win simply survive the seven days without being found. The Olly Olly Oxen Free Hide and Seek Tournament rules are specific: 14 competitors, seven days. It’s basically children’s game. The award is: 50K!

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i dont want this to turn into a massive rant, so i will try to keep my disappointments brief. - the direction the plot eventually goes in doesnt fit the tone the novel begins with Haunting, startling, unrelenting, and unexpectedly heartbreaking, Hide draws you inexorably in among the thorns and rust, where the monsters are both intimately familiar and horrifyinglyunfathomable.” —Delilah S. Dawson, New York Times bestselling author of The Violence A high-stakes hide-and-seek competition turns deadly in this dark supernatural thriller from New York Times bestselling author Kiersten White. The challenge: spend a week hiding in an abandoned amusement park and don't get caught. The prize: enou... Kristopher Kam for the And I Darken trilogy, The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein, the Camelot Rising trilogy, and the Sinister Summer series A really good flow with great writing style, fast paced and easy to follow. As the book went on the plot was pretty obvious. Too many characters to really get to know them all. The MC's development was good. I was excited for this storyline but it died a bit in the middle. The cover is nice and bright and captures you attention.

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No thanks to Netgalley for declining my request for an arc of this graphic novel (probably due to my low rating of the physical novel but… oh well) I’ve found my way to reading this in advance anyways. Muhaha. Sixteen-year-old Isadora talks a bit like a spoiled California teen, but she doesn’t actually become one until her mother sends her to San Diego to keep her safe. Until that point, Isadora lives in Continue reading » In all honesty, when I got to the end this is more of a supernatural horror book than the adventure I thought I was getting. The only clue is a little bold sentence at the end of the blurb, I should have paid closer attention. I also enjoyed the social commentary, from homophobia, racism, classism, and sexism to generational animosity (boomers using and abusing younger generations for their own benefit and then blaming and deriding them for struggling). I read the novel version of this story last year. It was one of my anticipated reads, but it was such a disappointment. I decided to request the graphic novel version on NetGalley, and while the story was the same, the illustrations added a better experience to it.

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Thank you to Random House Publishing Group - Ballantine, Del Rey and NetGalley who provided me with a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. All the thoughts and opinions are my own. Shoutout to NetGalley and Ten Speed Press for this ARC! I was so excited to see that Hide by Kiersten White was becoming a graphic novel. I think it is such a good book for this medium. I read Hide as an ARC in 2021 and I absolutely could not put it down. This adaptation was no different. The concept of a game of hide and seek in an abandoned amusement park is already fascinating, but add in potential paranormal events and people who are desperate to win the cash prize, you have yourself a good horror. I do think it could have done with a bit more mystery to build the suspense, but it was still overall a very enjoyable read. The art, while nothing to write home about, was also decent. The whole time I was thinking how this would be a great tv show on a platform where they could go gory, because the whole time I was also thinking, "this is House on Haunted Hill in an amusement park with teenagers!" (I initially expected it to turn out more like The Hunger Games, which is kind of starts out as, but it is definitely more House of Haunted Hill (1999)!) To start out with, there are WAY too many characters (fourteen!) to keep straight. They are first and often identified by their "identities"-ie "intern" "writer" etc. Then we get names and identities sometimes used interchangeably. When I got to the middle of the book, I wished I would have kept a chart from the beginning, but in the end many of the characters were totally throwaway so it didn't really matter.I want to preface this review by saying I haven't read the novel this is based on, so my opinions are seperate from any differences there might be from that. Seemingly selected at random from some sort of need-based selection process, the fourteen individuals are complete strangers and come from locations scattered throughout the United States.

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Thank you so much NetGalley and the publisher for the review copy in exchange for my honest review! Secondly, when we find out why they are really there...ugh, I just rolled my eyes and plowed through to the end to see if things would be redeemed, but unfortunately they really weren't. As I kept reading, this novel just drags on to the point of it being a complete snoozefest. I’m not sure why this is even considered to be a horror novel as it doesn’t have anything scary, crazy, or terrifying enough to keep you up at night. This felt more like a sci-fi/young adult novel than horror. Yeah, there are some parts that dabble in horror but it’s not fully fleshed out enough to scar you as it typically should. I thought the few scary situations in this one were very lame. This was once again an amazing story! I felt like it followed the novel fairly well. Having read it last year I can’t recall all the finer details but the story at large stays the same and even knowing what happens I still found myself taken by surprise on occasion. I read the original version of Hide last year when it released, and while I enjoyed it, I remember thinking it had a lot of facets that didn't translate well to a written novel and would have worked better in a visual medium, like a film or mini-series—or, lo and behold, a graphic novel!You may guess something so sinister waiting for those guys at the amusement park. You’re absolutely right! The chosen narration was dull though, it felt more like an over-arching stream of consciousness rather than a coherent storyline. Content warning: suicide, blood, death, violence, homophobia, racism, classism, child abuse, gun violence, grief, confinement, death of an animal, injury detail

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Overall: with less characters, this would be so much fun but it was still great try and I enjoyed it till the end. I hope Kiersten White writes more adult horror novels. She absolutely killed it!

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I do definitely think the graphic novel version is the best way to read this book. The illustrations add so much more meaning to the story. 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 Kiersten White is an author that has made a name for herself in the young adult fantasy world but Hide is her first attempt at an adult novel. Hide is a thrilling paranormal horror story. When it comes to White’s writing style in this novel, I didn’t like it at all. The chapters are done in days and felt like various, out-of-place, random mini-stories within those chapters from the POV of characters as events happened. These mini-stories just ended out of nowhere then right onto the next random person. From way too many references of peeing and two main characters with the exact same name, this was one confusing mess with way too many characters. I didn’t like any of them and even found the main protagonist annoying. This probably would have been better if it trimmed down some of these characters to make them memorable.