Less individuals and more experiences, if that makes sense. So I made my own.) Are Linda, Mack, LeGrand, Brandon, either of the Avas or any of the other characters in the novel inspired by or based on specific individuals? In this case, it was an interest in Greek mythology and how we keep telling ourselves the same stories because we keep repeating the same cycles of violence over and over through the ages, plus an article on an actual hide-and-seek competition set in an abandoned Italian resort town that made me think, 'gosh that sounds murdery.' (It wasn't. Most ideas are several ideas that suddenly, gloriously combine. Her adult debut horror novel is Hide and she recently talked about it with Daryl Maxwell for the LAPL Blog. Kiersten lives with her family in San Diego.

Her books have been published in over twenty territories, and her novel The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein is currently in development with Sony Pictures Television. Overall, I really enjoyed this one, and I would recommend it for readers that enjoy a paranormal horror story.Kiersten White is the #1 New York Times bestselling, Bram Stoker Award-winning, and critically acclaimed author of many books, including the And I Darken trilogy, the Camelot Rising trilogy, the Sinister Summer series, Star Wars: Padawan. I liked the POVs because it helped to reveal things throughout the story, but there were a few that didn’t seem necessary. Getting past that, the characters do start to die off, so that makes the POVs easier to follow🤣. That may have been fixed in release copies, but my ARC didn’t have that, and it would have been helpful. There’s a lot of POVs, and I do wish there had been headers with the character’s name so I knew who we were following. The story follows all 14 characters and can be a bit confusing early on. There are a lot of mysteries to unravel with this one, and each reveal created more understanding, but also more questions. The contestants don’t realize what they are entering, and so there’s a time frame of unknowingly playing the game before realization dawns for them. I absolutely loved the situation for this one. What starts out as a fun game of Hide and Seek soon turns deadly. The 14 contestants don’t have a ton of details about this new mysterious game, but they know that there’s money for the winner at the end, and for these people, that’s enough.

Which brings me to Hide, a story of 14 contestants entered in a game of Hide and Seek at an abandoned amusement park.

Seriously, if there is a story where people are forced to fight against each other or against “something” to survive in a “locked-room” environment, I just can’t help but love it! I’m a sucker for a storyline where many enter and few will survive 🤣.

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