Reviews tagging 'Death'

Hide by Kiersten White

151 reviews

minaopal's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Addiction, Suicide, Racism, Death, War, Bullying, Murder, Child death, Gaslighting, Blood, Death of parent, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Gun violence, Grief, and Alcoholism

brooketreads's review against another edition

challenging mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

2.0

I love old dilapidated places. A book surrounding an amusement park sounded like chef’s kiss. Unfortunately, there was too much going on. The writing felt all over the place. As a horror, it was disappointing. I never felt scared or thrilled. The point of view was throwing me off. Third person, omniscient. It almost felt like first person at times. I think I have found third person just isn’t my thing. There were too many characters with too much focus on having tragic backstories. It took away from the present. Also, two of the characters had the same name which added unnecessary confusion/ annoyance. I didn’t care about any of the characters either. The author threw in a romance subplot that I found completely unnecessary in what is supposed to be a horror. Also, I found it highly annoying that one male character thinks they may be lesbians I don’t give a f***. Then another male character thinks oh I’ve never been friends with lesbians that would be cool… it was giving straight author trying to pander to the gay community. I may be completely wrong on that.

I enjoyed the pieces about the amusement park, the first chapter about the Amazement Park, the meeting of the inner circle, and the finding of the journal. But, all the other filler was just not great for me. We didn’t need them getting dropped off on a deserted road, the dinner, the spa, or the nightly base camp stuff.

I needed more horror and for no one to survive. There doesn’t always have to be survivors in the end.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Body horror, Death, and Blood

Moderate: Child death and Cursing

antimony's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot

3.0

fun but also like. it took me until more than halfway through to know who any of the characters were except mack and ava. :( not many more thoughts not much else to say

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Death, and Child death

bekah1210's review against another edition

dark tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abandonment, Suicide, Confinement, Death, Gun violence, and Transphobia

Minor: Injury/Injury detail, Lesbophobia, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, and Ableism

anniereads221's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious medium-paced

4.0

The vibes were it
It kept changing which character we were following so it took a while to get used to it.

I enjoyed it. I am not gonna lie was it consistent? no. But i kept turning the page to see what would happen next i also loved the old abandoned amusement park.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Suicide, Sexism, Murder, Misogyny, Grief, Racism, Gore, Death, Blood, Religious bigotry, and Injury/Injury detail

katreadsalots's review against another edition

dark mysterious slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

2.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death

Minor: Gore

souymuilk's review against another edition

dark mysterious slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Child death, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Mental illness, Gore, and Death

lazydazey's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Death

Moderate: Murder and Suicide

bluelillybooks's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

This was totally not what I'd expected, but in a good way?

After a very mysterious and intriguing prologue, the first two chapters felt rushed to me. We get introduced to a bunch of new characters, including the 13 others canditates of the game and the main character, as well as the host of the game. That's a lot of information to throw at a reader in the first chapters of a book! I get that this tempo might throw some people off, but believe me it. is. worth. it. And I totally get now why we had to rush through those first character portraits (but would 20 more pages really have hurt? i think not). 

The plot picked up quick and I was immediately immersed in Kiersten White's world. I liked how I didn't care for some characters and cared a lot for others, just like our main character Mack does. Following several characters' point of view into their hiding places increased suspense and helped the reader put together clues before Mack could with the little information she had. 

Can I just say without spoiling anything that I love Brandon and he deserves the world and I'd come live with him in his grandma's house and play games with him and eat pizza and knit him a Christmas sweater and make friendship bracelets ANY DAY.

Also, lesbians! Also, Greek retelling! What's not to love?

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Religious bigotry, Suicide, Blood, Child death, Gore, Cursing, Death, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Classism, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, Abandonment, Blood, Body horror, Child death, Gore, Religious bigotry, and Self harm

carleneb's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Suicide

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Death of parent, Toxic relationship, Gun violence, Violence, Cursing, Classism, Child death, Abandonment, Racism, Physical abuse, Lesbophobia, Grief, Gore, Death, and Blood