A review by spellboundchapters
Hide by Kiersten White

adventurous dark emotional reflective 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? Yes

2.5

“Mack’s hungry, and she’s thirsty, and she’s tired. She doesn’t want to go back to camp, doesn’t want to see who’s not there, doesn’t want to think about what that might mean. It’s a game, yes. A game. A game run by people, and she understands perfectly well how monstrous people can be.”

This had a very strong start, and I thought Mack’s backstory was very interesting and wish it was used to its full potential.
Also the fact that it’s inspired by the Minotaur’s myth? So cool, but again, not used to its full potential. 😩

My first issue was that there were just too many characters, I couldn’t remember who was who. Also could sense the unnecessary romance coming since Ava’s introduction haha. Then there is the pacing, it’s extremely slow and we spend more time in the characters’s heads, listening to their internal monologues, than on the action. Basically every time someone would get attacked, the scene would stop and we would move to a different POV… And don’t get me started on the ending. I usually like open endings in horror books but this one just felt extremely lazy and we are left with so many unanswered questions.

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