HIDE by Kiersten White (Del Rey, May 2, 2023) Paperback, 272 pages. ISBN #9780593359259.
Synopsis on the Goodreads website . . . .
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 a dream future or escape a haunting past—Mack is sure 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 that this competition is even more sinister than 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.
My FOUR-STAR Review on the Goodreads website . . . .
Popular YA author Kiersten White's first foray into adult fiction is a winner. How far would someone be willing to go to attain success? Would they abandon their morals, and become conscious-less and sacrifice others? That's at the crux of this novel, which also has underlying social commentary about the haves and have-nots.
An alleged reality-show survival game goes off the rails. The story features characters to care about and later lament their passing. There are several twists as the story moves along at a frenetic pace. There were several options for White to end the story, and I was extremely satisfied with her choice.
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