Mais pro fim, comecei até a me importar com os personagens, que de fato são a parte mais fraca da história. To say Kiersten White's upcoming horror novel Hide is at the top of my anticipated TBR list is an understatement.

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Não foi perfeito, mas eu também não consigo parar de pensar nele e na ambientação criada na minha cabeça. I know reading is subjective but for what was dubbed a horror novel, this barely had anything scary at all. Esses elementos de: trancados em um lugar sem celular, precisarem assinar contratos, um parque abandonado no meio do nada e a tensão de precisar se esconder e depender apenas de barulhos e pequenas espiadas, criam uma tensão e uma vibe sinistra e bizarra.When I got to the middle of the book, I wished I would have kept a chart from the beginning, but in the end many of the characters were totally throwaway so it didn't really matter. Separate chapters, told in diary format, describe this Faustian pact and how it becomes increasingly difficult to satisfy the monster. Ox Extreme Sports is running the competition, and Linda, their kindly, middle-aged rep is looking after them. The relationship development was quick but felt realistic based on their circumstances, and I was very invested in our core group pretty much immediately. i was expecting a Battle Royale kind of story, and it wasn't until i had the ARC in my hot little hands that i learned this was a rework of the minotaur/labyrinth myth, an unexpected supernatural angle which forced me to recalibrate—and if i'm being honest— lower my expectations.

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The opening about a family’s drama who lost their five years old daughter at the amusement park in 1974 resulted with park’s closing was also picking your interest from the beginning.

suffice it to say, i ride the subway into the city every day, which gives me a front-row seat to the decline of civilization along with some simmering fantasies about thinning out the human herd.