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Book 209🎧 3.2⭐️

A pretty good MG horror about following the rules during Hide and Seek😬

I actually finished this a few days ago (so goes on my August #bookspinbingo board 🫣) and really liked it! Was it terrifying? No. But it was unsettling and would have definitely terrified me if I was a kid….I mean who wouldn‘t be scared by their worst nightmares appearing? I really liked how the author combined this with the very real terrors (racism, mental health issues, death and grief, etc) these young characters were going through. 🌟🌟🌟🌟

What a wonderfully creepy book! When a bunch of kids break the rules playing Hide & Seek, they're brought one by one into Nowhere, where the Seeker is collecting children to break out of its universe. Themes of teamwork, believing in yourself, trusting others and facing your fears makes this relatable for any age group!!
#middlegrade

Just the right amount of creepy for me! And thanks to the middle grade designation, it also came with some good messages. Also smoothly incorporates references to issues that black kids, and many kids in low income neighborhoods have to deal with: i.e. institutional racism, heightened incarceration.
Sidebar: The blend of horror elements and kid working out their issues surrounding grief, reminds me of A Monster Calls.

HIDE AND SEEKER by Daka Hermon

After a game of hide and seek goes eerily wrong, Justin and his friends are slowly pulled one-by-one into a dark, shadowy realm where the monstrous seeker unleashes their worst fears on them.

This was a fun middle-grade horror novel with intriguing mystery elements, satisfying character development, and a well-crafted supernatural world👍 A slow-burn that builds up to an all-out, climactic ending.

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This book definitely would have creeped me out reading it as a kid. As an adult, it was basically just a fantasy novel to me. The kids play hide and seek and if you break the rules, the seeker snatches you to another world where you have to relive your fear forever.

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Apparently I know nothing about hide and seek. Or maybe because I play with my nieces and nephews… don‘t you just count to like 30?

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Horror book by author of color +1

Here are the books I‘m planning to read for the weekly #Screamathon prompts

Week 1: The 2 goosebump books and then I‘ll watch the goosebump episodes
Week 2: tagged book
Week 3: I‘m planning to read a bunch of books with witch in the title, but I‘m going to try and reserve this one
Week 4: I have no idea what I‘m going to do for this one

I love creepy middle grade books! This is something I would have picked up as a kid. It probably would have creeped me out, but I would have loved it.

The friendship between the characters was sweet and I‘ll admit that there were a couple moments that had me tearing up. The horror itself was creepy, scary in moments, without being over-the-top terrifying. Definitely recommend as a spooky October read. I hope the author makes this a series.

I don‘t think I will ever look at a game of hide and seek the same way I did before I read this book. Justin‘s friend Zee has just come home after being missing for over a year. Zee isn‘t the same person that he was before. But at Zee welcome home party everyone decides to play a game of hide and seek. But when they start to go missing Justin and his friends are getting ready to meet the seeker. Will they make it out of nowhere?

Genre: Middle Grade, Horror
Rating: 🌟🌟🌟🌟

The plot was interesting and the characters were diverse. My only gripe with the story was the stereotypical portrayal of a pitbull. One of the villains in the book has a dog and it was mean pitbull named Butch. Now, as an animal lover, I know all too well the bad rap that pitbulls get. I'm sure some will think it's silly, but it annoyed me 🤷🏾‍♀️. Aside from that, the story was solid.

Genuinely scary novel. Think IT marketed to 10 year olds.

For what ever reason if you search for this book on Goodreads it does not come up. but if you Google it, the good reads page will come up. UGHHHH. But this looks like creepy fun for Middle Grade from Scholastic.

Out Sept 15

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