The premise of the story is frighteningly simple: fourteen contestants are dropped off in an abandoned amusement park for a game of extreme hide-and-seek that promises fame and a fifty thousand dollar cash prize for the winner. Hide is a dark horror story that’s full of blood, gore, and a secret society of elites murdering the young, marginalized, and poor in order to secure the success of their own families.īut though her adult debut is very much a grisly tale of horror, it also features many of the same elements that make White’s other worlds so appealing, from its fast-paced, page-turning plot to its diverse cast of memorable characters and the complex, often unlikeable heroine at its center, who is wrestling with a dark past of her own.
Like many popular young adult authors, White is crossing over into the adult market this year, but her contemporary debut is perhaps one of the furthest from the work we’ve seen from her before. (And don’t sleep on the Bram Stoker Award-winning Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein!)
If you read much YA fiction, you’ve probably come across author Kiersten White before, either from her And I Darken trilogy, a gender-bent retelling of the life of Vlad the Impaler, to her Camelot Rising series, which puts a more feminist spin on the story of Arthur and Guinevere.
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