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This book honestly has stuck in my brain waves since I finished it! To begin with it was kind of slow but from the ending was awesome and it was such an underrated twist!!
3.75⭐️

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This was really good—dark & twisty & a good thriller with paranormal elements worked in. I liked the MC, Mallory, a recovering addict who gets a job as a nanny for the summer for a family. Her charge, 5-year-old Teddy loves to draw & when the drawings start getting better & creepier, Mallory suspects something supernatural is going on. The drawings in the book are creepy (there‘s a great afterward with the author & illustrators) ⬇️

Now this was a book I quite enjoyed! The images throughout.... creepy.... I loved it!!! I studied child psychology, so this novel really held my attention. 4 🌟

Happy New Year, we all have Covid 🦠 reads.

“Hidden Pictures” revolves around Mallory Quinn, a 21-year-old recovering addict who becomes the nanny for Ted and Caroline Maxwell‘s five-year-old son, Teddy. During her summer watching Teddy, Mallory begins to suspect that Teddy is in danger and that she is either in the middle of a supernatural conflict or suffering mental instability, possibly because of her drug use.

Well, this book certainly had one almighty twist.
A ghost story mixed in with psychological thriller.

3.5/5 🌟

This book offers a fast-paced, engaging narrative that's more thrilling than frightening. It's an easy and entertaining read, yet, as with many books in the horror/thriller genre, it does require suspending belief to fully immerse yourself in the story.

Rekulak wrote an incredibly exciting story full of twists that I simply did not see coming. It was phenomenal! And the brilliance of adding the illustrations by Doogie Horner and Will Staehle was top notch. Such a stellar way to really help this novel along and to give the reader an all encompassing perspective on what the characters were seeing themselves. I loved it! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

I actually couldn‘t put this book down for the life of me. I read this in a sitting and rated it 4.5 stars! A paranormal/true crime thriller that will have you hooked from the start! The illustrations were so well done and were the perfect addition to the creepy atmosphere of the story. Thanks to whoever recommended this to me for my #12bookchallenge! Book 121 of 2023 😊

Characters were pretty realistic and interesting, I liked Mallory.

This book was intriguing enough but somehow pretty similar than some other books that I have read. That means that this wasn't really unique or special.

This was entertaining book to read and I had fun while reading.

I liked this ok: a recovering opioid addict becomes a nanny for a child who draws increasingly disturbing pictures that seem too advanced for their age. But maybe I wanted more creepiness? In any case, there seemed to be some missed opportunities or maybe I am just poisoned by my #scarathlon expectations 😝 👻
#Spookyghostclub book 2: 82 word search words, readathons to be added later in comments

Tomorrow is my first day off in 3 weeks, and my last day off until sometime in November, so, of course, I‘ve been sick all day. I‘m hoping it‘s just allergies 🤧 and I‘ll wake up tomorrow feeling ok.
I‘m really enjoying this spooky read for my IRL bookclub (that I WON‘T talk myself out of attending) while snacking and watching the MLB playoffs ⚾️
Any other baseball fans here? Who are you rooting for? If you say the Rangers, I‘ll be your BFF 🥰

Cool coincidence!! It‘s a perfect Saturday here in the sip!! Reading, football, gorgeous weather, cars, my love!

Happy Caturday!! 🧡🎃📚 🏈 🐈‍⬛

Y‘all this book!! It is so intense and my heart is racing! I‘m pretty sure I‘ll have nightmares tonight, but I can‘t stop reading it!! ✏️ 📝 🪨 👀 🏃‍♀️ 😱

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“But I‘m always happy when the weekend is over and I can finally go back to work.” These words will never come out of my mouth 😂😂 maybe when I was younger!!

Happy Friday!!

#Adayinthelifeoftux
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When your book and bookmark matches 🖤☠️💀

Starting this one with a book club on Fable! The link is below if you would like to join!! 📷 🖤

Check out Thriller Lovers Book Club on Fable! We‘re reading Hidden Pictures. Join us!
https://fable.co/club/thriller-lovers-book-club-with-sydney-405036205025

Amazing!

I'm about 3/4 of the way through and this book isn't even a fraction as scary/horror-ish as I was led to believe. Maybe things pick up right at the end? And am I the only one who feels like the wife is batcrap crazy? She keeps switching moods from one extreme to another

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2023 7/10 full of surprises!! Enjoyed this book!

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It‘s coming a flood here and I love thunderstorms ⛈️ ☔️

Hidden Pictures is a serviceable… horror? thriller? mystery?

Not quite sure where it falls. It has some spooky moments but it doesn‘t linger on them long enough to be horror. Rekulak‘s style is simple and safe but the final act is bogged down by way too much exposition.

It‘s saved by its use of artwork to propel the story; it‘s a creative and original conceit. Honestly, I wanted to keep reading the book simply to see the awesome illustrations.

Twisty! An easy horror read; nothing groundbreaking but a good ride.

I have not been successful in trying to get any time reading in lately but I'm making time today.

Couple chapters while little man munches some breakfast with his tablet. So far this morning I have learned that I race cars wrong, the tv has to be on cartoons even though he isn't watching it and I'm never allowed to be the blue truck. But he went potty by himself so I'm taking what I can get today 🤣

#PickYourBattles #SendCoffee

I didn‘t even know about this book as found a random review on social media. It seemed interesting so I started to read it and I really enjoyed it. Good characters, supernatural type plot and overall a fun read

Attempting to get a few pages in while the psychos psycho 🤣🤣

https://youtu.be/8EnG8_oZcu4

Just a friendly reminder that this book is transphobic and why.

(BTW, this booktuber is great.)

I'm really torn with this one.
I picked it up because it won the Horror category (not really horror) for Goodreads Choice Awards and Stephen King blurbed about it.
All good signs.
I read the book knowing nothing of the plot and found myself thoroughly entertained.
I was set to rate this 4 or 5 stars.
Then I watched this video (SPOILER ALERT) and everything changed:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EnG8_oZcu4

Read this in 24 hours - couldn‘t put it down !

I love a good ghost story mixed with a mystery and this was one. A quick read for me and I loved that there was artwork dispersed throughout. It really brought it to life.

First read of the year 🎉 Completed during break but just getting back to social media.
I had gotten this on audio book when someone told me it was you really had to have a physical copy of, and they were right!
Clever and spooky and just keeps moving. I would say this is more of a mystery sundae with supernatural sprinkles as opposed to horror. But still very good and well worth the hype.

Great twisty turny book!

Edit: I did want to add that having JK Rowling and H Potter
mentioned in a book published in 2022 is not good,
This author could have picked another children‘s author and book
like Percy Jackson and/or Rick Riordan..
I still enjoyed this book but it did annoy me a little..
maybe he supports JKR?

Read for some reading challenges.

5/5

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ I loved how quickly this book moves. And the illustrations are incredible! I love a book with something extra lol the ending was bonkers but super entertaining. I will definitely pick up his other book.

First book d finished for the New Year. This was a good, suspenseful ghost story. It was more thriller than horror. The illustrations were integral to the story. The ending had a few twist that caught me off-guard.

This book wasn't too scary for a book marketed as a horror novel, but it was really good. I appreciated the main character's struggles in recovery. The ending got me. I would recommend it if you like a good ghost story.

This was an interesting horror/thriller that I actually didn‘t figure out all the twists in advance. I also really enjoyed the drawings they added in to the story line. They made for interesting additions.

All. The. Stars. Excellent!! Creepy (like, DARK creepy. Very dark)...but also so touching and such a hopeful ending. The pictures are an awesome addition, really draws you even further into what's going on. Also loved the focus on addiction recovery. And that a main character has faith in God and isn't made out to look like a flake. This is definitely one of my top 5 of the year.

This read threw me for a loop. At first I thought that I had read it or something very similar before. Then the plot went in a direction that I was not expecting.

Whoah! I went into this blind and absolutely INHALED it! Creepy as hell (I love that instead of just describing the drawings you actually see them), and the twist packed a hell of a punch that completely shocked me. 👏🏽

I started reading this book last night and I couldn't put i down. I was a little angry I had to sleep in between. Lol. The story was amazing. It wasn't scary but definitely creepy enough to keep you involved. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Yeeeaaah this definitely didn‘t live up to the hype for me. It had a lot of potential. The pictures were great and unique. But there were so many bad or nonsensical decisions I couldn‘t look past. It‘s a nope from me.

I had high hopes for this book Mallory a recovering drug user gets a job nannying a little boy in a high end suburb of PA the story definitely had the ghosts vibe and a twist but overall it was so-so for me

Quick, entertaining read. Glad I had the print version as the pictures would probably have been really poor on my kindle and they added to the story.

🎃🎃This definitely did not live up to all the hype around it. In terms of mood and tone, it did not feel spooky at all. The characters were cardboard people and everything felt rush, like the guy just mailed in the book to fill a deadline. It was fast paced and mildly entertaining but overall, I could have skipped this one and not missed a thing.

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Popular Book : And I get why, the story was fun and entertaining. I felt like I was reading a Goosebumps book for older kids which for me is a good thing, best way i can describe it 😅. The ending was a little rushed.