 Hello everybody, E here. Welcome back to another book review. Today, I'm especially, I ran out here to do this because this was supposed to be a buddy read with me and a bunch of my friends and I wanted to get this out just so maybe if If you've already bought the book the e-book you can return it But definitely read it for yourself open it up and see if you see the same things I do but today we're talking about Hide by Kirsten White. This book is supposedly White's adult fiction debut. The very first problem I have with it is it is a YA style novel with adult characters And what I mean by that and YA is not inherently bad Don't get me wrong Don't come for me guns blazing for that one because I have enjoyed plenty of YA Andrew Smith's books Welcome to the dark house, which I I Would recommend you check out instead of this one Clown in the cornfield. I enjoyed also There are so many great YA books the YA books that I cannot stand are books like this that are written in a dumbed-down way as if Teenagers do not Care for anything other than forward plot momentum The number one problem I have with this and I quit it not not too far after I hit this point there are 14 characters in this book and They are all introduced in three pages three pages You have your requisite youtuber your Instagram or your app developer your Insecure boy insecure girl lonely girl lonely boy girl with haunted past all of that stuff all of the stereotypes That you will find in bad YA are in this book Now there's nothing wrong of course with being a youtuber Instagram or any of those things But when that's the depth of character development that you get and you are Supposed to care about these people long enough to you know, see what happens to them When the author didn't even care enough to give them enough space to breathe before she introduced You know everyone in the book all at once I much would have preferred That maybe each character got a short chapter from themselves before we got started Whatever anything other than what happened here because this read like a D&D character sheet a List of attributes a list of things they do well badly all that stuff. It was so So poorly written I the I'm really upset here I spent full price for this book $27 of books a million because I got suckered in by the cover and then when you open it up It has amazing in papers. It's a whole map of the amusement park. I guess it's called the amazement park Which made me roll my eyes anyways, but I mean that What the park's called is like the least of the problems with this book and yes, I did not finish it I will defend that stance by saying this if I go to a restaurant And I order a if I order a meal I get the meal and the meal tastes bad That's the equivalent of the writing here If the meal tastes bad, I'm either going to send it back or I'm gonna say never mind. I'm gonna go somewhere else Unfortunately, I've already bought and paid for this book and the writing for me is absolutely terrible very choppy Some some very odd word choices Some similes and metaphors that just made me roll my eyes. It's the writing here And of course all the rest of the stuff that I mentioned another thing was is I went over to Rachel's review from Shades of Orange here on YouTube I went and read their written review once I had gotten to page 30 or so and There's so many red flags just popping off Everywhere so many thanks to Rachel. I wish I had read your review before I went out and bought the book at full price But anyways, I got suckered in with the one of my favorite subgenres in horror is amusement parks carnivals Circuses all that theme parks that kind of thing just my favorite subgenre a period Like geek love it has some, you know horror elements or whatnot or a good one's fantastic land is another one that I really enjoyed Although I did give it three stars for a couple different reasons But there are so many other it welcome to the dark house is this exact gimmick Done so much better. I'm sorry, but the author's name slips in my mind But if you're looking for something like this and you want a book that caches the checks that the description know that caches the Check that the description Signs have you want to put it if you want something like that. Go check out. Welcome to the dark house if you're looking for brutal why a horror because you think that Why a is is? Timid I definitely suggest welcome to the dark house and the clowns in the core cornfield clown in a cornfield Any any one of those books if you want more Suggestions and recommendations. Let me know down in the doobly-doo, but this This ain't it. I'm sorry Very upset very disappointed And I won't be reading any more of the author's work whether it's YA adult whatever. I just do not like their writing But that's it if you've read hide Especially if you enjoyed it, I'd love to hear from you down there in the doobly-doo But until next time I have been E you've been you this has been a DNF book review. I'll talk to you guys later. Bye. Bye