Hide by Keirsten White
Fourteen people are invited to play hide and seek in an abandoned amusement park that closed down several decades before because of a child murder. But that was years ago! Surely nothing could go wrong now, right? And none of the fourteen players have any relevant traumas related to hide and seek, yeah? And if the park feels more like an elaborate labyrinth than a park, well that’s just because of how overgrown it is. And the company holding this contest is absolutely positively on the up-and-up. Would I lie to you? Hide is a tight, fast-paced gut punch of a book that has something to say about the world and one way or the other, it’s going to make you listen. It’s a delightfully angry, heartbreaking book and I would love to see it get a miniseries adaptation someday. Kiersten White’s got another horror novel, Mister Magic, out right now and I’m eagerly awaiting my copy from the library.
drowsyreaper. 