Mack comes from an abusive past and knows how to hide and avoid attracting attention to herself, so when she receives an offer to play in a massive hide-and-seek competition at an abandoned theme park for a chance to win $50,000, she accepts.
However, she gradually begins to realize that a far more sinister plot is at work and she’ll have to work with the other contestants to survive.
Going into Hide by Kiersten White, I wanted to love this book so badly since battle royale is one of my favorite sub-genres in fiction (i.e. Alice in Borderland, Hunger Games, Squid Games).
However, Hide unfortunately lacks the well-fleshed out and compelling characters that make the others in its vein so successful. Instead we’re given an obnoxious cast of caricatures whom—asides from Mack and Ava—I didn’t remotely feel invested in.
It didn’t help either that the cast of 14 contestants are simultaneously dumped on readers all at once or that the story constantly switches POVs mid-chapter. I think the story would have been far more gripping if it had focused on three or less POVs.
Without getting into spoilers, the ONE clever aspect of the book that I liked was its integration of a certain Greek myth.
Overall though, I think the story had a fantastic premise and setting that was bungled by its hot mess of an execution.
Thank you, NetGalley and Del Rey, for providing me with an ARC in exchange for an honest review.
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