by Kiersten White
Book: Stand Alone
Publisher: Del Rey Books
Pub Date: May 24, 2022
Genre: Young Adult
Format: Print
Source: Bought
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The challenge: spend a week
hiding in an abandoned amusement park and don't get caught.
The prize: enough money to change everything.
Even though everyone is desperate to win--to
seize their dream futures or escape their haunting pasts--Mack feels sure that
she can beat her competitors. All she has to do is hide, and she's an expert at
that.
It's the reason she's alive, and her family
isn't.
But as the people around her begin disappearing
one by one, Mack realizes this competition is more sinister than even she
imagined, and that together might be the only way to survive.
Fourteen competitors. Seven days.
Everywhere to hide, but nowhere to run.
Come out, come out, wherever you are.
A high-stakes hide-and-seek competition turns
deadly in this dark supernatural thriller from New York Times bestselling
author Kiersten White.
My Review: This isn't my normal style of
reading, but I love Kiersten so I had to get it anyway.
At first, I wasn't too sure what to really expect. I know Mack pretty much has
nothing until this contest came up and she was invited to sign up. First, she
was pretty much nope, but a chance to have money and start to make a life for
herself got her to say yes.
Now she's on the way to the location with 13 other people. There is a quick
overview of who those other players are, but only a few of them are front and
center in the book. Which for me was just fine. When they make a stop at a
diner for breakfast, that was a scene I didn't like. Mostly because of the guy
taking the order and he was so old school, stuck in the old ways and well, I
could have dome with someone smacking some sense into him. But, alas, there are
still people like that everywhere.
Any who, now when they finally arrive they settle in for the night and then
they start. From sunrise to fall they must hide and not be found. Which this
whole time it seems like a big hide and seek game right? Oh no no no, there is
something else going on. Another reason for them to be there and what really
happen if you get found?
Overall, I liked this book. It did keep my interest which is a big plus since
this is not my usual genre.
