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A high-stakes hide-and-seek competition turns deadly in this dark supernatural thriller from New York Times bestselling author Kiersten White, perfect for fans of Stephen King and SQUID GAME.

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 their dream futures or escape their haunting pasts - Mack feels sure that 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 this competition is more sinister than even 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.

© Kiersten White 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022

 Fantasy Ghosts Horror Supernatural Thriller & Suspense Scary Paranormal Haunted

Critic reviews

A marvellously creepy thrill ride of a book that keeps twisting until the very end
There is nothing creepier than an abandoned amusement park, especially when Kiersten White is writing about it. Each character is astonishingly real and the pacing is spot-on. This book held me captive, I couldn't put it down.
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 onto this book with bloodless knuckles, and I adored every spine-chilling second
Hide is a claustrophobic thriller choked with weeds, rust, and rot. The game here is not what it seems. The hunt is swift and merciless, and the fear is primal and bestial. Don't pick up this book unless you have time to read it all in one anxious sitting.
An enthralling, high-energy thriller . . . White proves she has a finger on the pulse of millennial horror.
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.
Guaranteed to be THE book of the summer. Cinematic in scope, breathless in suspense, this book is a rollercoaster of pitch-perfect horror.
White holds no punches in this brilliantly executed thrill ride. Every twist and turn horrified and delighted me in equal measure. This book was so damn fun!
Luring us into its maze with hints of wrongness, Hide leads us into a nightmare game that escalates from dread to supernatural terror and breathless suspense - a compulsive read you won't want to put down.
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This ended so abruptly it honestly felt like the author just couldn’t be bothered to finish it??? Also the initial exposition boasts a complex and exciting plot and the real explanation I found to be quite anticlimactic

Great start, disappointing ending

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As title says the concept itself was intriguing but the execution was sadly lacking. The nature of the threat was immediately guessable from the town name (for mythology buffs) which rather spoils the reveal. The backstory of the main character’s family trauma felt like nothing more than shock value and would have been far more compelling had it happened due to the secrets about the town and threat. At least it would have made sense rather than being a cliche and it would have provided added internal conflict for the main character. The LGBT representation felt thrown is as an afterthought as it not fleshed out in any way after the initial quick reference. The ending itself was completely anticlimactic and left me with a real feeling of a waste of setup, which is ironic given the villains hatred of waste that is expressed during the final parts.

Intriguing concept, poorly executed

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Thus story had a lot to give, and at times it really did give a lot. The general concept of the story was great and I felt like it went into the story with a good set up. I do feel however at tines there could have been more to it. The protagonists backstory needed a better link to the story. Having two characters with the same name was put in there for what felt like a reason, but then didn't really follow through with that reason. I had to listen to parts of the ending more than once cause I felt lost and rushed st times. Overall it isnt a bad story, it's fairly good, just didn't quite hit the marks

So much potential

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This is easy to read, tension-filled, bingeable book. Narration was really good, and the story was interesting and engaging.

Amazing

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I wouldn't recommend it, with many more choices of books to listen to/read.
Good concept, I liked the idea of the story, but it was poorly executed, felt rushed and wasn't an enjoyable read.

Great concept, poorly executed.

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