A review by oraclereadings
Hide by Kiersten White

2.5

"Fourteen competitors. Seven days. Everywhere to hide, but nowhere to run."

Hide takes places at an abandoned amusement park where contestants compete against each other in game of hide and seek. Only, don't get caught. The goal is to stay at the park for a week and not be found; the winner will receive a cash prize of $50,000.

I was really starting to enjoy this book all the way up until the competition started. The buildup was interesting and was giving me Squid Games vibes and I was excited.  And then the game starts and literally it's just these characters doing nothing but hiding and reflecting on their past.

Slowly, people start disappearing one by one and we don't get a reveal until the very end. It felt so hard to to connect to these characters because they were all assholes and maybe that was the point, but I did not feel anything for them. I didn't see a need for a romance to happen in the middle of this book, but it was painfully obvious in the first few chapters what was going to happen.

Unfortunately, Hide was quite literally like an amusement park, but we spent the whole day waiting in line and once we got on the ride, the roller coaster stopped halfway through the ride.