Hide by Kiersten White

 
Hide by Kiersten White
My Rating: ★★★★

I received a copy from Random House Publishing Group through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

Orphaned and living in a shelter, Mack has nothing but a small bag of items to her name. She only wants to be invisible. Instead, she’s singled out and offered the chance of a lifetime: participate in a hide-and-seek competition for the chance to win $50k. The offer seems too good to be true, but what does Mack have to lose? It’s a question that comes back to haunt her when the competition begins to disappear rather than be eliminated. 

I wasn’t sure what I was getting into when I started this book, but I knew it was bound to be crazy. It was hard to follow at first because there’s such a large cast of characters and we only got to know Mack before the main plot gets rolling. It honestly took me a while before I realized I had mixed two of the characters up, and one was eliminated shortly after we met him and the guy I thought was him.

That said, once I got the characters down, it was easy to tell each person apart before their names were mentioned. Each of them are so different from one another and brought something different to the table, so I wish we got to know some of the characters before the competition started. That said, I think it’s an excellent book. We follow several different perspectives, and it truly pulls the whole story together. It was interesting to follow the story from so many perspectives, especially when we jumped to the people who knew what was going on.

I do wish the seeker was revealed completely through the people in the old, closed theme park because it was a little anticlimactic for the main reveal to be vague through a series of journal entries. However, it didn’t ruin the story for me. I just think that the journal entries should’ve come into play after we saw the seeker in all their glory. It was actually quite a fascinating and scary concept that left me very close to being on the edge of my seat.

All in all, I think this was a very good read. I have two of Kiersten White’s books on my to-read list, and now I’m excited to check them out because this was such a good story.