Fourteen competitors are requited to spend a week hiding in an abandoned amusement park in the hopes of winning a huge cash prize. However, they have to avoid getting caught. By who or what, they don't know until they meet their fate. Good thing Mack is an expert at hiding. But as the participants around her begin disappearing, she realizes something sinister is lurking behind the challenge, and it'll take everything to survive.

The Hunger Games vibes, abandoned amusement park, mysterious disappearances? As soon as I read the premise, I was like SIGN. ME. UP. I truly loved White's setting, and the creepiness she instills in the competitors having to resort being predator or prey for the hope of a financially-free future. I truly felt like I was navigating the park alongside them and could easily picture their isolation and panic. Even though there are a lot of characters to keep track of, the author's tone of voice shifted pretty smoothly to follow along with the varying point of views. I thought I'd find it hard to keep up with, but was surprised not to. Overall, I really loved the vibes of the story, and felt like I was eventually going to deeply connect with the main character Mack and all of her angst. However, the plot really rests on the big revelation of her past, the mysterious disappearance of a little girl that took places decades ago, and the competition's origins. As the clues started adding up, and were revealed half-way through, my interested dropped drastically. I just found the second half of the book with the characters' connections and the park's history to be way too predictable. By the end, I was left feeling - that's it??? White's vision is quite ambitious, trying to mix supernatural with mystery and social commentary, but the character arcs unravels in ways I feel like I've read or seen too many times before.