There is definitely nothing weird, supernatural, or occult going on. When the sun goes down, they can return to base camp for some sleep and to prepare for the next day. The location is kept secret and they only discover after a (forced?) nap on the bus that they’ll be spending seven days in an abandoned amusement park.įrom sunup to sundown, each contestant must go into the park and hide. They seem to break down along two lines: those who are doing it because they need the money and those who are doing it because they think it’s some kind of reality tv show and they want to promote themselves or their brand. There are fourteen participants, seven men and seven women. Mack can’t say no to that amount of money.Įverything about the contest is kept incredibly secret. If you make it to the end, you win $50,000. Now she’s been invited to take part in a very interesting challenge: spend seven days playing hide and seek. Several years ago, she was the sole survivor of her father’s murder spree, something she accomplished by hiding very well. There’s ambiguity and not everything goes somewhere, but Hide is a fun horror novel with a good setting and an ominous atmosphere for the set up that turns into a fairly exciting narrative to end.Our heroine is Mack. The writing can be a bit confusing as it changes perspectives quickly and once Mack starts the competition there’s a lot of characters for a while, but it wasn’t so much that I couldn’t keep track of what was going on, and it was fairly typical for some horror books that also try and cram in too many perspectives to build up tension. The twist won’t be to everyone’s tastes as the book becomes more supernatural horror, but I’d already expected that and I quite like how it plays out, a combination of human and otherworldly threat. The first few days and nights of the competition are particularly tense and I felt a real ominous sense before you fully knew what was going on. The opening sets up Mack’s creepy backstory, which drives her character throughout, and then you slowly meet the other competitors and watch as they begin the competition.
The concept of the book is an obvious draw, with the setting a memorable one and hide-and-seek being a great horror concept. As she meets her fellow competitors, she knows she’s not there to make friends, but when it seems less of a fun competition and more of a fight for survival, Mack might have to work with other people if she wants to get out alive.
Well, that, and she has a history of hiding. Mack has nothing, so when she has the chance to take part in a week-long game of hide and seek in an abandoned theme park to win prize money, she takes that opportunity. Hide is a horror novel about a game of hide and seek with very high stakes, set in an abandoned amusement park.
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