The plot was intricate and revealed all the twisty-pretzel bits with perfect timing, and my feels took a direct hit when Annabelle's dog got stabbed and she fought for her life. So, watch out for that one, pet-lovers.

A few days ago, while reading a review by a non-Australian of a book written by an Australian author, I learned a word that was new to me: "prosody": the patterns of stress and intonation in a language, including functions such as choice of pitch, stress, and rhythm. The art was gorgeous, bright and colourful. Maybe could have had some changes to the layout, there was just a lot of yellow commentary boxes through most of it. But overall amazing. Meanwhile, the story switches to a second point of view and we find ourselves getting to know Bodie and Amelia, twins, a brother and sister pairing living and trying to get by in Chicago. He has a history of stalking women, she’s an artist who’s also intent on looking out for her brother. Their disturbing past reveals they discovered, when they were young, that their father was a serial killer. They walked into the home’s cellar one day to find one of his victims. It was clearly a traumatic event for both of them.

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But while they may expect cameras and overarching preplanned competition narratives, none of them are prepared when they start seeing strange things—like blood, torn clothing, and missing jewelry that once belonged to “eliminated” contestants—that hint that something much more sinister is at work in this game than extreme sports. For a touching tale about perseverance, creativity and constructive criticism, try ' The Best Dress Ever'. It's set on another planet, features three aliens and is great for helping children develop a growth mindset. D.D. and Bobby find Annabelle Granger, who has been on the run since she was seven years old when her father snatched her and her mother up without warning. They moved frequently over the years with just a few suitcases each time they moved to a new city with new identities. What is her relationship to these mummified girls found on the grounds of a now-defunct mental institution?

Kiersten White is an author that has made a name for herself in the young adult fantasy world but Hide is her first attempt at an adult novel. Hide is a thrilling paranormal horror story. I do definitely think the graphic novel version is the best way to read this book. The illustrations add so much more meaning to the story. I own and have read most of Kiersten White's work. Though I do have a copy of Hide, I haven't read it yet, so I was hoping the graphic novel adaptation would get me hyped to bump it up a bit sooner on my list. I always enjoy to read claustrophobic, whodunnit, trapped in one location and who’s gonna be the last one standing theme!

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Foster is paired up with Detective Vera Li, a young mother and wife of an ER physician. We'll notice the "trial period" between these two as they test the ground between them. Notably, they hold the key to life in each other's hands. So – how do I conclude this? I could go on and on, but I don’t want to give away any more of the plot. Parts of it are a little bit over the top, but I guess that’s why it’s called fiction. I could rave for days about this book, but your time would be better spent reading the book! Seek out Hide. You won’t be sorry!

ARC provided by NetGalley / Cópia antecipada do livro proporcionada pelo NetGalley (review in portuguese and english). With two contestants getting caught and out of the game each day, the tension increasingly mounts. Additionally, it's not clear at all who, or what, the Seekers are. There are certain reads meant to bring you pain, influence your life choices, make you embrace joy and then there are other stories written solely to entertain - books I coin as reality TV reads as they have no depth but are so enjoyable to devour. Hide is one of those books. The premise is ridiculous, there is a touch too much exposition, it contains a weirdly interpretive ending, and there is a lot of eye rolling moments but, it's exactly what you expect from the blurb and it's fun. Fourteen competitors, the list is approved, seven days in an abandoned amusement park, cell-free zone, sleeping outside is part of the game, a cash prize, houses of fun and terror. It's a "horror reality show".I do not intend to say much about the book itself. It began well enough, but about half-way through the plot(s) started to meander, revealing this piece of important information, then that piece, eventually draining the book of almost all its dramatic tension, leaving little or nothing to the listener's imagination by the end of the story. There are several other viable suspects, as well, all of them in some way connected to the abandoned mental hospital where the bodies were found. Simon is a forty-something-year old neurotic effete: over-educated and under-socialized. Living on the grounds of his widowed sister Audrey’s massive estate, he has acclimated to life by burrowing underground, creating what he terms his “hide.” Some of Unsworth’s most stunning descriptions in this book of landscape and distance can be found in Simon’s sections, and, admittedly, it’s unclear just how skillfully Simon has constructed his hideaway or if it’s just merely a series of bushes and fences. From here, he moves about the estate, surveilling and watching neighbors and also the social gatherings of his sister’s theatre group—distanced, remote, but judgmental: “Why should I always be on the outside of everything, appreciating my exclusion with an aesthetic ache?”

I was right: this format works so much better for telling this story! While the vast array of characters felt too same-y in the regular book, they were so much easier to tell apart with visual depictions (kudos to the artist for making even fairly similar characters very easy to tell apart!), and the theme park setting and its secrets were so much fun in this format.

Once again, Bobby Dodge, now a detective, gets to star in the D.D. Warren's series. It's two years after the first book in the series and a bunker of mummified bodies is found. These bodies could be connected to a case that almost destroyed Bobby's career two years ago. There's a full collection of teaching resources designed to be used alongside the book. These can reinforce children's learning of counting to 10 and help them learn the names of the dinosaurs featured in the book too. Take a look at these: The surprising horror element was thrown into this equation adroitly. It fits with the entire execution.