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A high-stakes hide-and-seek competition in an abandoned amusement park comes to life in this graphic novel thriller. What would you do for $50,000? For Mack, the prize money would be life changing. She knows her time at the women’s shelter is already up. And she’s good at hiding. At least this time, her life doesn’t depend on it–or so she thinks. The challenge is simple. All fourteen competitors must spend seven days hiding in an abandoned amusement park from dawn to dusk. There’s only one rule: Don’t get caught. But as the people around her begin disappearing one by one, Mack realizes this competition is more dangerous than she’d imagined, and that together might be the only way to survive. Rendered in stunning full-color art by beloved comic artist Veronica Fish, this gripping graphic adaptation of Hide fully immerses you in the chilling and page-turning horror story of Mack and her fellow competitors as they fight to make it out of the Amazement Park.
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Thanks so much to Ten Speed Press and NetGalley for access to a digital ARC in exchange for my honest review!
Before the Hide graphic novel, I was already a devout fan of Kiersten White's adult horror novels. Hide was a favorite read of mine for 2022, and Mister Magic was a massive favorite for last year, 2023. So I knew going in that I was already in love with the story and was so, so excited to see the art style and how this story I love so much translated into a visual medium. And as far as the art is concerned, it was *incredible*. The characters were all so well depicted and most of them looked exactly the way that I pictured them when I was first reading the book. And most of the story came through perfectly, but I will say that switching from Kiersten White's beautiful, hauntingly descriptive prose to a story mainly told through visuals lost a bit of the more horror-centric feel of the story for me. So much of the internal struggles of the characters didn't end up coming through because there was so little room in the art to get it across, and this led to the deaths of characters not hitting in the same way that they do in the full novel. However, I was still stunned by the story even in this format and loved every second of getting back into the action with some of my favorite characters. I'm now desperately hoping that Mister Magic ends up getting the same treatment!
0Hide was one of my favourite reads in 2022 and I had high expectations for this.
It didn’t quite hit the mark for me in graphic novel form, but I still stand by my point that I think this would make an incredible TV show or movie.
The storyline is *chefs kiss* and is still one of the only thriller/horror books that I think about on a regular basis.
0This story definitely worked better in graphic format compared to the novel, but it's still very weak overall.
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