After watching Squid Game, I was excited to hear about this book and its survival game vibe. Thankfully NetGalley came through with an ARC, so here we are, checking it out early! I raced through this in two days flat because I was entertained by the story and found the characters to be really interesting. Rather than just follow our protagonist, you get into the head of most of the contestants to some degree to understand their backgrounds and motivations. I liked that that gave us a sense of more than just a simple good/evil dynamic.

Some parts were a little predictable, but overall, I found it to be a lot of fun. Dark, twisted fun.

Everyone has played hide and seek before, right? Well, no one has played the game quite like this before.
The main narrator is one of the chosen few to go play this highly competitive, very creepy game of hide and seek in a reality show type setting us add in a chance to win 50k!. Don't want to give too much away, but can definitely say Mack did not realize what she was getting into.
This was definitely a fast paced YA thriller, the author kept my attention and there were some surprising twists and turns....
Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for this ARC!

Hide focuses on a group of individuals picked for a simple competition of hide and seek in an abandoned amusement park. At the end, the person who wins is given 50,000, a life-changing amount of money for every competitor. They’re led to believe that this is simply a game of hide and seek, but Mack, our main narrator, begins to sense there is something very wrong with the park. This book was incredibly unsettling in the best possible way. Kiersten White had an incredible ability to build suspense. I loved that the book zoomed away from Mack during days of the completion to get the point of views of other competitors, this gave each character a more substantial feel and helped the book feel very grounded. It scratched the itch of The Hunger Games but with characters I could more relate to as they are closer to my age. I could not put this book down! I highly recommend Hide if you’re looking for a page turner that will send chills down your spine. You may never want to enter a theme park again. (Or play Hide and Seek.)

A dark, sinister game of Hide and Seek pushes the contestants to question their lives, their sanity and their reasons for joining the competition to begin with.

With fully-drawn characters and breakneck pace, Hide is just the sort of twisted thriller many readers will enjoy.

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I’m going to call this the thriller of the year. It’s an incredible story that keeps you interested until the last page. But my favorite part was the unique setting and the characters.

This was the first title by Kiersten White that I’ve read, but I’m curious enough to go seek out other things she’s written.

I’m a sucker for things set at amusement parks…the more run down the better. The setting of “Hide” was a character unto itself…and what’s hiding inside with them…even better.

I got some serious “Cabin in the Woods” with this one. Entertaining read.

A terrifically terrifying thriller.
This is my #1 pick for BuzzFeed Books list of most Anticipated Thrillers.

Thank you Del Rey team and NetGalley.