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HIDDEN PICTURES
by Jason Rekulak ; illustrated by Will Staehle & Doogie Horner ‧ RELEASE DATE: May 10, 2022
It's almost enough to make a person believe in ghosts.
A disturbing household secret has far-reaching consequences in this dark, unusual ghost story.
Mallory Quinn, fresh out of rehab and recovering from a recent tragedy, has taken a job as a nanny for an affluent couple living in the upscale suburb of Spring Brook, New Jersey, when a series of strange events start to make her (and her employers) question her own sanity. Teddy, the precocious and shy 5-year-old boy she's charged with watching, seems to be haunted by a ghost who channels his body to draw pictures that are far too complex and well formed for such a young child. At first, these drawings are rather typical: rabbits, hot air balloons, trees. But then the illustrations take a dark turn, showcasing the details of a gruesome murder; the inclusion of the drawings, which start out as stick figures and grow increasingly more disturbing and sophisticated, brings the reader right into the story. With the help of an attractive young gardener and a psychic neighbor and using only the drawings as clues, Mallory must solve the mystery of the house's grizzly past before it's too late. Rekulak does a great job with character development: Mallory, who narrates in the first person, has an engaging voice; the Maxwells' slightly overbearing parenting style and passive-aggressive quips feel very familiar; and Teddy is so three-dimensional that he sometimes feels like a real child.
Pub Date: May 10, 2022
ISBN: 978-1-250-81934-5
Page Count: 384
Publisher: Flatiron Books
Review Posted Online: March 1, 2022
Kirkus Reviews Issue: March 15, 2022
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A touching story of love and grief ends in an epic battle of good versus evil.
Roberts’ latest may move you to tears, or joy, or dread, or all three.
Every summer, John and Cora Fox visit Cora’s mother, Lucy Lannigan, in Redbud Hollow, Kentucky, leaving their children, 12-year-old Thea and 10-year-old Rem, for a two-week taste of heaven. The children love Grammie Lucy far more than John’s snooty family, which looks down on Cora. Lucy, a healer with deep Appalachian roots, loves animals, cooks the best meals, plays musical instruments, and makes soap and candles for her thriving business. Thea—who’s inherited the psychic abilities passed down through the women of Lucy’s family—has vivid magical dreams, one of which becomes a living nightmare when a psychopath robs and murders John and Cora as Thea watches helplessly. Thea’s description of the killer and her ability to see him in real time help the skeptical police catch Ray Riggs, who goes to prison for life. Although Thea and Rem go on to have a wonderful childhood with Grammie, Thea constantly wages a mental battle with Riggs, who tries to use his own psychic abilities to get into her mind. Over the years, Thea uses her imagination to become a game designer while the more business-minded Rem helps manage her career. Thea eventually builds a house near Lucy, where a newly arrived neighbor is her teen crush, singer-songwriter Tyler Brennan. Tyler has his own issues and is protective of his young son but slowly builds a loving relationship with Thea, whose silence about her abilities leads to a devastating misunderstanding. At first Thea tries to keep Riggs locked out of her mind. As her powers grow, she torments him. Finally, she realizes that she must win this battle and destroy him if she’s ever to have peace.
Pub Date: May 21, 2024
ISBN: 9781250289698
Page Count: 432
Publisher: St. Martin's
Review Posted Online: March 23, 2024
Kirkus Reviews Issue: April 15, 2024
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A tasty, if not always tasteful, tale of supernatural mayhem that fans of King and Crichton alike will enjoy.
Are we not men? We are—well, ask Bigfoot, as Brooks does in this delightful yarn, following on his bestseller World War Z (2006).
A zombie apocalypse is one thing. A volcanic eruption is quite another, for, as the journalist who does a framing voice-over narration for Brooks’ latest puts it, when Mount Rainier popped its cork, “it was the psychological aspect, the hyperbole-fueled hysteria that had ended up killing the most people.” Maybe, but the sasquatches whom the volcano displaced contributed to the statistics, too, if only out of self-defense. Brooks places the epicenter of the Bigfoot war in a high-tech hideaway populated by the kind of people you might find in a Jurassic Park franchise: the schmo who doesn’t know how to do much of anything but tries anyway, the well-intentioned bleeding heart, the know-it-all intellectual who turns out to know the wrong things, the immigrant with a tough backstory and an instinct for survival. Indeed, the novel does double duty as a survival manual, packed full of good advice—for instance, try not to get wounded, for “injury turns you from a giver to a taker. Taking up our resources, our time to care for you.” Brooks presents a case for making room for Bigfoot in the world while peppering his narrative with timely social criticism about bad behavior on the human side of the conflict: The explosion of Rainier might have been better forecast had the president not slashed the budget of the U.S. Geological Survey, leading to “immediate suspension of the National Volcano Early Warning System,” and there’s always someone around looking to monetize the natural disaster and the sasquatch-y onslaught that follows. Brooks is a pro at building suspense even if it plays out in some rather spectacularly yucky episodes, one involving a short spear that takes its name from “the sucking sound of pulling it out of the dead man’s heart and lungs.” Grossness aside, it puts you right there on the scene.
Pub Date: June 16, 2020
ISBN: 978-1-9848-2678-7
Page Count: 304
Publisher: Del Rey/Ballantine
Review Posted Online: Feb. 9, 2020
Kirkus Reviews Issue: March 1, 2020
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Warning – possible spoilers! (Tiny ones, though, and I’ll try to avoid even those; I swear I’ll give my best not to ruin it for you… :-))
Hidden Pictures by Jason Rekulak – Book Details
TITLE – Hidden Pictures
AUTHOR – Jason Rekulak
ILLUSTRATORS – Will Staehle, Doogie Horner
GENRE – horror , thriller , mystery , paranormal
YEAR PUBLISHED – 2022
PAGE COUNT – 373
MY RATING – 4.5 of 5
RATED ON GOODREADS – 4.20 of 5
What It Is About
A man is digging a grave. A woman is being dragged through a forest. And someone is looking up from the bottom of a very deep hole.
Goodreads Choice Award winner for Best Horror of 2022!
Mallory Quinn has been battling OxyContin and heroin addiction for the past eighteen months. And though that battle never ends, she’s doing much better. She even managed to find a job as a nanny in a prosperous suburb of Spring Brook, New Jersey.
Teddy Maxwell, the kid she is to babysit, is the sweetest five-year-old boy and one of the reasons Mallory loves her new job. Like many kids, Teddy loves to draw. But his sketches quickly progress from simple drawings of balloons and rabbits to detailed sinister illustrations of a man dragging a dead body through the woods.
As it is clear Teddy couldn’t have drawn such complex sketches on his own, Mallory starts to suspect his artwork are really glimpses of an unsolved murder that allegedly happened at the Maxwell property several decades ago.
But what does the force that is trying to communicate through Teddy want? And why does it seem that all the events in the house only lead to another tragedy?
I’m not sure if I’m consoling her or she’s consoling me, I can’t tell where my guilt ends and hers begins. Maybe it’s the kind of grief we will never ever shake, not even after we’re dead.
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I’m always in for a good thriller with horror-ish vibes, and adding a dash of supernatural to the mix is pretty much a sure way to make me pick up a book. Hidden Pictures by Jason Rekulak offered just that and it sounded like it might be a hundred percent my kind of thing.
This is also the book that won this year’s Goodreads Choice Award for the best horror, beating several other titles that I’ve been hoping to get to soon. I just had to see what so many people liked about it.
And straight out of the gate, several elements made Rekulak’s Hidden Pictures work so well.
There are so many pieces to the puzzle, my head is starting to hurt. I feel like we’re trying to jam a square peg into a round hole—or to force a very easy solution on a very complicated problem.
First, the setting. The contrast between the beautiful, quiet neighborhood during warm, sunny summer days and the increasing horror unfolding in one of the houses. Plus the local legends about a tragedy in the past that might be reaching its fingers all the way to the present.
The psychic neighbor – too eccentric for anyone to pay attention to, but who keeps warning that a spirit might be using the boy to tell her story.
And, of course, the protagonist. Mallory was a great MC. Likable and complex. Strong but vulnerable. Someone who has definitely had her share of mistakes in the past, but seems to have come out of it stronger. Determined to make the best she can out of the rest of her life.
So, a girl easy to root for and in some ways relate to. But also someone you know won’t be trusted if she starts to talk about the supernatural. No way she can go to anyone, be honest about what’s going on and ask for help.
Teddy runs to get his swimsuit and I see he’s left a new drawing facedown on the coffee table. […] Curiosity gets the better of me. I turn the paper over, and this is pretty much the last straw.
And when she first goes to the Maxwells’ house for the job interview and meets the parents, Caroline and Ted, as well as Teddy, nothing suggests this babysitting gig might challenge her to those impossible choices. The house is gorgeous, the parents pleasant. And Teddy is an adorable kid.
But Ted and Caroline are worried about him. Teddy is about to start school, but he doesn’t want to play with other boys. In fact, his only playmate is his imaginary friend Anya.
It is Mallory’s job to help Teddy get used to meeting new people. And for a while, everything seems to be going great. But Teddy’s simple drawings quickly progress to detailed, complex sketches no five-year-old could master on his own. And the illustrations seem to be telling a story of a murder.
As Teddy’s drawings take darker and darker turns, Mallory starts to wonder how those images even got into his head. And there’s only one obvious solution – his imaginary friend Anya with whom Teddy talks every day during his Quiet Time.
“The man dug a hole so no one would find her,” he says with a shrug. “But I guess she got out.”
So, great setup, great vibes. And I can honestly say I enjoyed this book a lot from start to finish.
The beginning was maybe a bit slow, but Hidden Pictures was one of those books where narration has a good rhythm so you barely notice it. The writing was very accessible and easy to fly through.
The only thing I maybe wish was different was that I hoped for an even creepier, scarier story. But the narration was so light, even the truly disturbing parts didn’t quite get to me.
Which wasn’t all that bad. It made for a quick, easy read, fun and entertaining. Great for people who love spooky vibes but not to get completely terrified.
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The illustrations were also a huge part of the book. They added something little extra to the story. I especially appreciated the transition from Teddy’s obviously childish stick drawings to dark, skillful images as the story progressed.
But the ending really made Hidden Pictures a 5-star read for me. I kept wondering throughout the book where the story was going, and some parts of the twist caught me completely clueless!
There were actually a couple of aspects of the story that I entirely missed while reading. The ending made me gasp once or twice before tying everything nicely together.
And I think back to the doctor from the University of Pennsylvania and the research experiment that didn’t actually happen. And it’s the first night I feel like someone might be watching me.
Look. Kids drawing creepy images and having imaginary friends who may or may not have malevolent agendas is not exactly the newest or the most original concept we’ve ever heard of. But there’s nothing wrong with good old tropes that became tropes because they work. Especially when they are done well, and this one was.
I enjoyed this book a lot. I can even see it turned into a movie, and I’d certainly watch it. Hidden Pictures was a fun and entertaining horror. Creepy, but not too creepy. Weird, but not too out there.
Great to kill a couple of lazy evenings. And if that’s what you are looking for, Hidden Pictures by Jason Rekulak is a great option.
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I liked this book too, Jovana! And I love your review, you just made me wanna go and reread it!
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Hello, Tartlets! I’m so excited to be part of the blog tour for Hidden Pictures . Because I seriously loved this book.
(Whew! What a relief. It would’ve been totally awkward to be part of a blog tour for a book I hated.)
Billed as “ The Haunting of Hill House meets The Perfect Nanny ,” this supernatural thriller by Jason Rekulak surpassed all the expectations I had for it. I ripped through Hidden Pictures in just two days. TWO DAYS! Every spare moment had me reaching for my copy of this super creepy story.
The main story behind Hidden Pictures will seem pretty familiar — at least, at first. A down-on-her-luck young woman, Mallory, takes a job nannying a quiet and sweet child named Teddy. The offer seems too good to be true, and sure enough, almost as soon as Mallory arrives at the Maxwell family’s house, weird things start happening and the kid starts shoving creepy drawings in her face.
Been there, done that, right? WRONG. Why? Because Hidden Pictures has art.
As Mallory sifts through Teddy’s drawings, so do you — one minute you’re reading about some scribbles that kinda-sorta look like a bunny sitting in the grass, and the next thing you know, you’re looking at it. Every drawing that Teddy creates is in Hidden Pictures . Which means that when Mallory sees his disturbingAF drawings — like a woman who looks like she crawled out of the The Ring , or a man dragging a woman by the ankles through a forest — so do you .
I’m a sucker for scary stories with artwork. Remember Horrorstor ? The illustrations in that book are what helped make it so great, and the same goes for Hidden Pictures . I’m a writer , so I’m all for the power of words, but being able to see exactly what Mallory sees really brings you into the moment. It’s almost as if you’re watching a movie instead of reading a book.
The book’s illustrations are also inadvertently hilarious. Like, you’re flipping through a bunch of Teddy’s nice little sketches, and you’re like, “Okay, normal, normal, normal…all normal things a kid would draw….WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT?!?!” I burst out laughing as many times as I hid under the covers.
While Hidden Pictures starts off like a traditional ghost story, it eventually becomes clear that there’s a lot more going on with Mallory and Teddy than just a good, ol’ fashioned haunting. Mallory’s emotional side story really tugs at your heart, and there’s a darn good mystery that begins to unfold at the Maxwell house. Most importantly, there are plenty of twists and turns to keep you guessing right up until the very (crazy, unpredictable) end.
If you’re looking for a riveting and unique haunted house story (I mean, who isn’t??), get your hands on a copy of Hidden Pictures ASAP.
Notes to my fellow New Jersey readers: Hidden Pictures is set in South Jersey (aptly so; there’s nothing scarier than South Jersey to this North Jersey girl), and I was psyched every time there was a shout out to my alma mater, Rutgers New Brunswick. Jersey Strong!
Hidden Pictures by Jason Rekulak (with illustrations by Doogie Horner and Will Staehleill) is now available from Flatiron Books. Although I received a complimentary advance copy of this book, all opinions expressed in this review are my own, and I was not compensated in any way for this review or for any other promotion/publicity I’ve done related to this book.
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Book Review of THE BEAR AND THE NIGHTINGALE
- January 9, 2024
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Book Review of HAPPY JOBS: Doing What You Love for a Living
- January 2, 2024
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Book Review of DECODING THE STARS: A Modern Astrology Guide to Discover Your Life’s Purpose
- December 12, 2023
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Book Review of HOME FOR CHRISTMAS
- November 28, 2023
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Book Review of HAMNET
- November 14, 2023
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Book Review of THE HACIENDA
- October 31, 2023
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Book Review of A TRUE ACCOUNT: HANNAH MASURY’S SOJOURN AMONGST THE PYRATES, WRITTEN BY HERSELF
- October 24, 2023
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Book Review of GREENWICH PARK
- October 10, 2023
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Book Review of GAD’S HALL and THE HAUNTING OF GAD’S HALL
- September 26, 2023
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Book Review of OLD COUNTRY
- September 12, 2023
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Book Review of A STORM OF INFINITE BEAUTY
- September 5, 2023
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Book Review of THE SPARROW SISTERS
- August 22, 2023
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Book Review of BEST SERVED HOT
- August 8, 2023
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Book Review of MY MAGNOLIA SUMMER (DNF review)
- August 1, 2023
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Book Review of A NOVEL OBSESSION
- July 18, 2023
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Book Review of THE RESERVOIR
- July 11, 2023
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Book Review of LOCKDOWN ON LONDON LANE
- June 13, 2023
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Book Review of THE HOLLOW PLACES
- May 30, 2023
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Book Review of THE WINTER SEA
- May 2, 2023
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Book Review of CHICK MAGNET
- January 24, 2023
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Book Review of CHRISTMAS CHARMS (A Cozy Holiday Romance)
- December 13, 2022
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Book Review of AUNT DIMITY’S CHRISTMAS (A Cozy Mystery)
- December 6, 2022
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Book Review of GHOSTS: A NOVEL
- November 22, 2022
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Book Review of HOUR OF THE WITCH
- November 8, 2022
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Dual Book Review: THE COTTAGE ON PUMPKIN AND VINE and THE BAKESHOP AT PUMPKIN AND SPICE
- October 25, 2022
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Book Review of THE DROWNING KIND
- October 11, 2022
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Book Review of RECIPE FOR A PERFECT WIFE
- September 27, 2022
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Book Review of GHOSTER
- September 13, 2022
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Book Review of LOVE LIKE THAT
- August 30, 2022
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Book Review of THE LOST VILLAGE
- August 16, 2022
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Book Review of SURVIVING SAVANNAH
- August 2, 2022
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Book Review of ON WRITING: A MEMOIR OF THE CRAFT
- July 19, 2022
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Book Review of WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING
- July 5, 2022
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Book Review of A DISCOVERY OF WITCHES
- June 28, 2022
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Book Review of THE NEWCOMER
- June 7, 2022
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Book Review of WHEN NO ONE IS WATCHING
- May 24, 2022
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Book Review of THE CANDID LIFE OF MEENA DAVE
- May 10, 2022
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Book Review of A (NOT SO) LONELY PLANET: ITALY
- April 26, 2022
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Book Review of THE PULL OF THE STARS
- April 12, 2022
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Book Review of SUNRISE BY THE SEA
- March 29, 2022
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Book Review of THE BONE HOUSES
- March 15, 2022
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Book Review of THE PLOT
- March 1, 2022
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Book Review of FRIENDS AND STRANGERS
- February 15, 2022
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Book Review of THE INVISIBLE LIFE OF ADDIE LA RUE
- February 1, 2022
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Book Review of THE BABYSITTER
- January 28, 2022
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Book Review of A HOUSE AT THE BOTTOM OF A LAKE
- January 25, 2022
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Book Review of THE FAMILY UPSTAIRS
- January 21, 2022
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Book Review of HOMEGOING
- January 18, 2022
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Book Review of THE GIRL WHO DIED
- January 14, 2022
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Book Review of APPLES NEVER FALL
- January 11, 2022
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Book Review of RAVEN BLACK
- January 7, 2022
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Book Review of THE MIDNIGHT LIBRARY
- January 4, 2022
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Book Review of CHRISTMAS JOY
- December 7, 2021
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Book Review of THE WINTER’S CHILD
- December 3, 2021
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Book Review of N0S4A2
- November 23, 2021
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Book Review of THE LAST COMMANDMENT
- November 12, 2021
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Book Review of THE OTHER BENNET SISTER
- November 9, 2021
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Book Review of DAISY JONES & THE SIX
- October 26, 2021
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Book Review of THE VOICES
- October 22, 2021
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Book Review of MY DARK VANESSA
- October 12, 2021
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Book Review of MEXICAN GOTHIC
- October 1, 2021
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Book Review of THE GOWN
- September 28, 2021
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Book Review of PARTY OF TWO
- September 14, 2021
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Book Review of MIDNIGHT AT THE BLACKBIRD CAFE
- August 31, 2021
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Book Review of THE COOKBOOK CLUB
- August 17, 2021
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Book Review of A GENTLEMAN IN MOSCOW
- August 13, 2021
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Book Review of THE LOST APOTHECARY
- August 3, 2021
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Book Review of MUSICAL CHAIRS
- July 20, 2021
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Book Review of BUNNY
- July 9, 2021
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Book Review of THE SUPREME MACARONI COMPANY
- July 6, 2021
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Book Review of THE SOUTHERN BOOK CLUB’S GUIDE TO SLAYING VAMPIRES
- June 22, 2021
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Book Review of THE MAIDENS
- June 8, 2021
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Book Review of IN FIVE YEARS
- May 25, 2021
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Book Review of THE DEAD GIRLS CLUB
- May 11, 2021
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Book Review of MEG and JO
- April 27, 2021
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Book Review of RED, WHITE, AND ROYAL BLUE
- April 23, 2021
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Book Review of A SINGLE THREAD
- April 13, 2021
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Book Review of WOW, NO THANK YOU
- March 30, 2021
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Book Review of THE HEIR AFFAIR
- March 26, 2021
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Book Review of ELEANOR OLIPHANT IS COMPLETELY FINE
- March 16, 2021
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Book Review of THE HAUNTING OF BRYNN WILDER
- March 2, 2021
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Book Review of RHAPSODY
- February 26, 2021
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Book Review of COSY: THE BRITISH ART OF COMFORT
- February 16, 2021
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Book Review of THE FLATSHARE
- February 2, 2021
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Book Review of AN IRISH COUNTRY FAMILY
- December 18, 2020
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Book Review of CHRISTMAS SHOPAHOLIC
- December 8, 2020
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Book Review of THE MERRIEST MAGNOLIA
- November 24, 2020
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Book Review of WINTER SOLSTICE
- November 10, 2020
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Book Review of HOUSE OF SALT AND SORROWS
- October 30, 2020
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Book Review of THEME MUSIC
- October 27, 2020
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Book Review of THE GIRL IN THE MIRROR
- October 16, 2020
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Book Review of THE BOOK OF LONGINGS
- October 13, 2020
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Book Review of THE WHISPER MAN
- October 6, 2020
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Book Review of BLANKY
- October 2, 2020
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Book Review of THE GRAVEYARD APARTMENT
- September 22, 2020
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Book Review of JERUSALEM MAIDEN
- September 8, 2020
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Book Review of RODHAM
- September 1, 2020
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Book Review of THE EXILES
- August 25, 2020
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Book Review of THINGS YOU SAVE IN A FIRE
- August 11, 2020
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Book Review of THE FINISHING TOUCHES
- July 28, 2020
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Book Review of THE TURN OF THE KEY
- July 24, 2020
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Book Review of LOCK EVERY DOOR
- July 7, 2020
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Book Review of AMERICAN ROYALS
- June 30, 2020
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Book Review of AN AMERICAN MARRIAGE
- June 26, 2020
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Book Review of HELLO, SUMMER
- June 16, 2020
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Book Review of I CAN’T DATE JESUS
- June 9, 2020
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Book Review of THE SUN DOWN MOTEL
- June 2, 2020
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Book Review of THE PRINTED LETTER BOOKSHOP
- May 19, 2020
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Book Review of SUMMER RENTAL
- May 5, 2020
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Book Review of MAYBE YOU SHOULD TALK TO SOMEONE
- April 21, 2020
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Quick Look Books: Historical Fiction (April 2020)
- April 7, 2020
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Book Review of LITTLE DARLINGS
- March 24, 2020
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Book Review of CATHERINE HOUSE
- March 13, 2020
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Book Review of AUNT DIMITY AND THE KING’S RANSOM
- March 3, 2020
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Book Review of THE JANE AUSTEN DIET
- February 18, 2020
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Quick Look Books: Modern Love Stories (February 2020)
- February 14, 2020
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Book Review of SAINT X
- February 7, 2020
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Book Review of FINDING THE GIFT
- February 4, 2020
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Book Review of AND THEN WE GREW UP
- December 17, 2019
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Quick Look Books: Cookbooks (December 2019)
- December 10, 2019
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Book Review of THE LOST FOR WORDS BOOKSHOP
- November 26, 2019
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Book Review of ONE DAY IN DECEMBER
- November 12, 2019
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Book Review of THE INVITED
- October 29, 2019
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Book Review of THE CITY BAKER’S GUIDE TO COUNTRY LIVING
- October 15, 2019
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Book Review of THE HOCUS POCUS MAGIC SHOP
- October 11, 2019
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Book Review of THE SILENT COMPANIONS
- October 1, 2019
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Book Review of THE BOOKSHOP ON THE SHORE
- September 27, 2019
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Book Review of THE FRIENDS WE KEEP
- September 24, 2019
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Book Review of BEAUTIFUL BAD
- September 17, 2019
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Book Review of I OWE YOU ONE
- September 3, 2019
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Book Review of CIRCE
- August 20, 2019
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Book Review of DEATH IN THE COVENANT
- August 13, 2019
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Book Review of THE MOTHER-IN-LAW
- August 6, 2019
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Book Review of DESPERATE GIRLS
- July 23, 2019
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Book Review of SMOKE GETS IN YOUR EYES
- July 9, 2019
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Book Review of THE UNHONEYMOONERS
- July 2, 2019
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Quick Look Books: Vacation Destination Reads (June 2019)
- June 18, 2019
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Book Review of THE KISS QUOTIENT
- June 4, 2019
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Book Review of NINE PERFECT STRANGERS
- May 22, 2019
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Book Review of THE THINGS SHE’S SEEN
- May 13, 2019
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Book Review of AN UNWANTED GUEST
- May 7, 2019
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Book Review of HOW TO BLOG FOR PROFIT (WITHOUT SELLING YOUR SOUL)
- April 30, 2019
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Book Review of THE LAST ROMANTICS
- April 26, 2019
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Book Review of AN IRISH COUNTRY COTTAGE
- April 16, 2019
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Book Review of THE ENDLESS BEACH
- April 9, 2019
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Book Review of NO ONE TELLS YOU THIS
- April 2, 2019
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Quick Look Books: Thrillers (March 2019)
- March 26, 2019
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Book Review of GLORY ROAD
- March 19, 2019
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Book Review of THE PERFECT NANNY
- January 18, 2019
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Quick Look Books: Hygge Books (January 2019)
- January 15, 2019
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Book Review of RUSH
- January 8, 2019
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Book Review of HUNT THEM DOWN
- January 4, 2019
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Book Review of UNSHELTERED
- December 20, 2018
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Book Review of MEET ME AT THE MUSEUM
- December 18, 2018
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Book Review of THE WITCH ELM
- December 13, 2018
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Book Review of FROM THE KITCHEN OF HALF TRUTH
- December 11, 2018
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Book Review of MELMOTH
- December 6, 2018
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Quick Look Books: Christmas Books (December 2018)
- December 4, 2018
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Book Review of TWO STEPS FORWARD
- November 27, 2018
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Quick Look Books: Food in Fiction (November 2018)
- November 20, 2018
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Book Review of THE SEVEN HUSBANDS OF EVELYN HUGO
- November 13, 2018
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Book Review of ALL WE EVER WANTED
- November 6, 2018
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Book Review of HORRORSTOR
- October 30, 2018
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Book Review of DAUGHTERS OF THE LAKE
- October 25, 2018
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Book Review of THE CABIN AT THE END OF THE WORLD
- October 23, 2018
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Book Review of LYING IN WAIT
- October 16, 2018
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Quick Look Books: Supernatural Horror for Adults (October 2018)
- October 12, 2018
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Quick Look Books: YA Supernatural Horror (October 2018)
- October 9, 2018
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Book Review of THE IMMORTALISTS
- October 2, 2018
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Book Review of THE EVER AFTER
- September 25, 2018
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Book Review of THE DARK DESCENT OF ELIZABETH FRANKENSTEIN
- September 24, 2018
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Quick Look Books: Powerhouse Books (September 2018)
- September 18, 2018
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Book Review of THE ROAD TO LITTLE DRIBBLING: ADVENTURES OF AN AMERICAN IN BRITAIN
- September 11, 2018
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Book Review of UNBURY CAROL
- August 28, 2018
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Quick Look Books: Chick Lit (August 2018)
- August 21, 2018
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Book Review of YOU THINK IT, I’LL SAY IT
- August 14, 2018
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Book Review of IN A COTTAGE IN A WOOD
- July 31, 2018
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Book Review of THE HIGH TIDE CLUB
- July 24, 2018
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Book Review of FLORET FARM’S CUT FLOWER GARDEN
- July 17, 2018
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- July 10, 2018
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Book Review of THE BROKEN GIRLS
- July 3, 2018
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Book Review of THE HIDEAWAY
- June 19, 2018
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- June 12, 2018
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REVIEW: Hidden Pictures by Jason Rekulak
From Jason Rekulak, Edgar-nominated author of The Impossible Fortress, comes a wildly inventive spin on the classic horror story in Hidden Pictures, a creepy and warm-hearted mystery about a woman working as a nanny for a young boy with strange and disturbing secrets.
Fresh out of rehab, Mallory Quinn takes a job in the affluent suburb of Spring Brook, New Jersey as a babysitter for Ted and Caroline Maxwell. She is to look after their five-year-old son, Teddy. Mallory immediately loves this new job. She lives in the Maxwell’s pool house, goes out for nightly runs, and has the stability she craves. And she sincerely bonds with Teddy, a sweet, shy boy who is never without his sketchbook and pencil. His drawings are the usual fare: trees, rabbits, balloons. But one day, he draws something different: a man in a forest, dragging a woman’s lifeless body. As the days pass, Teddy’s artwork becomes more and more sinister, and his stick figures steadily evolve into more detailed, complex, and lifelike sketches well beyond the ability of any five-year-old. Mallory begins to suspect these are glimpses of an unsolved murder from long ago, perhaps relayed by a supernatural force lingering in the forest behind the Maxwell’s house. With help from a handsome landscaper and an eccentric neighbor, Mallory sets out to decipher the images and save Teddy—while coming to terms with a tragedy in her own past—before it’s too late.
Dear Mr. Rekulak,
When I saw your name on this arc, I knew I wanted to read it even though it seemed very different from the first book of yours I read, “The Impossible Fortress.” Despite having read the blurb, I had a totally different idea of what was going to unfold. As a result, I was riveted to the twists and turns of the novel.
Mallory Quinn is not the typical older young adult I’ve read about. We meet her in a bizarre psychological medical experiment when she’s still addicted to whatever she can get her hands on. Then the story fast forwards to her in rehab. She’s wrecked her relationship with her family but is almost eighteen months sober and clean. Now she has a chance at a job as a nanny for an affluent couple in a rich town in New Jersey which is light years away from the South Philly neighborhood in which she grew up. The mother is a psychologist who works with recovering military vets but it’s the father who grills Mallory during the job interview.
Amazingly Mallory gets the job and starts working and living a dream. Teddy is sweet and soon the two of them are making up stories, swimming in the pool, and wandering through the nature park behind the home. Then Mallory sees some of Teddy’s newer drawings and they are unlike anything she’s seen Teddy draw before. It’s not just how different in artistic skill they are but the subject matter is deeply disturbing. How on earth could a five year old produce these?
Mallory begins to hear things at night and gets the feeling she’s being watched. Is Teddy being haunted by the ghost of a woman supposedly murdered over 70 years ago in the little one room house at the back of the Maxwell’s property and now trying to tell her story? Or have the drugs Mallory was on fritzed her brain into seeing something that’s not really there?
Though there aren’t any detailed descriptions of Mallory in the depths of her addiction, she pulls no punches in admitting to the reader she was addicted. Later we learn the tragedy of how and why her addiction began.
As she is interviewed for the job and sees the picture perfect little town in which the Maxwells live as well as how they interact with each other and the wholesome house rules under which she’s expected to live, my alarm bells started going off. It’s really, creepily perfect. At first Mallory is delighted with how easy the job is and how well she gets along with Teddy. Teddy’s not a faultless child or a plot moppet by any means but when she runs into situations she needs help with, Mrs. Maxwell is there with her psychological expertise and child care experience. Mallory might not always agree but knows not to go against Teddy’s parents.
Until things begin to happen that unsettle Mallory as well as Teddy. These start slowly, gradually, and build up. Some can be explained away … until they can’t be anymore. One of the long term effects of the kind of drug use Mallory did are mental lapses and the brain inventing false memories. She begins to worry that this is what is happening while her NA sponsor is concerned that she’s using drugs again.
The mystery of what’s going on deepens. Clues are discovered but can’t be fit together to make enough sense. Teddy’s drawings get worse and Mallory’s idea of what – or who – is causing everything freaks her out. Is a ghost haunting them?
I enjoyed the slow build up of the story. It’s very atmospheric in different ways. The bonding between Mallory and Teddy is delightful to watch. Teddy is an intelligent child with occasional five year old sulks. Mallory discovers how much she enjoys her job and getting her life back on track. The drawing parts are unsettling. The growing menace snuck up on me until I felt I was chest deep and with dangerous water still rising. Something is going on but what?
The explanation makes sense even before the villain exposition ties everything together in the end. Mallory keeps her head on straight until a final scene when it suddenly dawns on her that maybe she shouldn’t have done something. But she still manages to save the day in a taut race against a killer. The final section is emotional in a good way with an ending that allows Mallory as well as Teddy and the reader to decompress and feel better about the future. There are a couple of plot holes that might or might not bother people but I finished the book satisfied. B+
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Thanks for this review. I saw this on my library website yesterday and thought it looked interesting. I’m always interested in something out of my comfort zone.
@ Jenreads : It was a little outside mine but it does have a slender romance thread.
Whoo. To save for my next “if I read one more Regency where a woman has to fight for a modicum of agency, I’ll scream” moods.
Still trying to wrap my mind around how a book can be both “creepy and warm-hearted”, although the last paragraph of your review indicates how it could be pulled off. Sounds like it may have overtones of Henry James’ Turning of the Screw re whether there are actual paranormal events or is the nanny going bonkers. At any rate, it does sound interesting, thank you for the review.
@ LML : Rekulak writes good female characters. Mallory is neither too perfect nor TSTL to make the story believable. She does what most people would do – try to reason away the weird stuff rather than grabbing it and holding on for dear life.
Mary Zelinsky, the main female character of his first book “The Impossible Fortress” is great. In the early 80s, she’s interested in computer programming (and very good at it).
@ Susan/DC :
Still trying to wrap my mind around how a book can be both “creepy and warm-hearted”
LOL – now that I see it written it that way, yeah I can see your point. But trust me, the book is both.
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HIDDEN PICTURES by Jason Rekulak – Review
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The nitty-gritty: A unique format makes this supernatural thriller a fun escape from everyday life.
Hidden Pictures was a very good thriller with lots of surprises, and the book is full of illustrations which enhance the story and make it even better. There’s also a supernatural element, so if you enjoy thrillers with a ghostly presence, you’ll have fun with this too.
The story revolves around Mallory Quinn, a twenty-one year old who is in recovery for drug abuse. She’s been clean for eighteen months when the story begins, and her sponsor Russell thinks it’s time to stretch her wings a bit and get a job. When the opportunity comes along to work as a nanny for a five-year-old, Mallory thinks it will be the perfect summer job to keep her focused on her recovery and next steps.
Her interview with Caroline and Ted Maxwell goes well and she gets the job, and even better, Mallory immediately bonds with the Maxwell’s son Teddy. Caroline offers Mallory a place to live on the property, a remodeled garden shed where she’ll be close to Teddy but will also have some privacy. Mallory and Teddy spend their summer days swimming and hiking in the nearby nature preserve, and Mallory even meets a local college boy named Adrien who takes an interest in her.
It all seems idyllic, until Mallory sees the strange drawings that Teddy is working on. At first the drawings seem normal, the sort with stick figures that a five-year-old might draw. But as the days progress, Mallory notices an unsettling shift in technique and subject matter. One day Teddy presents a series of disturbing drawings: a woman being dragged along the ground by a man, the man digging a hole, the woman screaming as someone is strangling her. The drawings are clearly done by someone with artistic talent and training, most certainly beyond Teddy’s capability. Teddy claims that he didn’t draw them, and when drawings mysteriously appear in Mallory’s shed, Mallory concludes that Teddy’s imaginary friend, a woman he calls Anya, may have something to do with them.
Mallory tells Adrien about the drawings and her concerns about Anya, and he agrees to help her investigate. Something weird is going on, and Teddy appears to be an innocent caught in the middle of it. With the help of Mitzi, the Maxwell’s kooky next door neighbor, Mallory attempts to communicate with Anya. But the truth is far stranger and more dangerous that she realizes.
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Rekulak’s writing is punchy and his pacing is excellent. Once I starting reading, I found it hard to put down the book, probably because the mystery of Anya was so intriguing. And I loved the addition of the drawings, which are scattered throughout the book and add an extra layer of mystery to the tale. (I’m adding a couple of photos taken from my review copy because I couldn’t resist!) We finally learn the meaning behind the drawings at the end of the story, and I thought the reveal was really well done. Until that point, the author casts doubt on just about every character in the story: is Teddy telling the truth about his imaginary friend, or does he just have an active imagination? Why is Ted Maxwell so friendly towards Mallory? What’s up with Mitzi and her Ouija board? And of course there’s Mallory, a recovering addict who—despite Russell’s advice to come clean to others about her past—is lying to Adrien about her drug addiction and the fact that no, she doesn’t actually go to Penn State. I admit I had no idea where the story was going, and the twist at the end caught me completely by surprise.
I also liked the fact that Mallory has a lot of issues she’s trying to overcome, and she’s trying so hard to achieve a sense of normalcy in her life. We get flashbacks into the reasons behind her addiction—getting hooked on OxyContin after a serious sports injury, and later turning to heroine as a cheap (but deadly) substitute. I don’t know any heroine addicts personally, but I did think at times that Mallory’s recovery was just a little too easy. She never shows signs of slipping up or being tempted back into her old lifestyle, and after only a year and a half clean, I’m not sure how realistic that is.
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Right off the bat I thought something might be up with the Maxwell’s—they just seem too perfect. They claim to have just moved to Philadelphia from Barcelona, and Caroline is currently working on enrolling Teddy into an exclusive Kindergarten. They have a long list of rules that Mallory must follow, including such things as no screens, no junk food, no religion and no photos of Teddy on social media. At first these feel like normal rules, but later we realize there are some nefarious reasons for some of them. I did not like Ted at all, Teddy’s father. He comes across as a sexual predator and acts inappropriately towards Mallory, although Mallory didn’t seem to be picking up on his signals, for some reason. But the weirdness of the parents only added to the unsettling feeling of the story and for me, was just one more mystery to solve.
A few things felt “off” to me, though. Mallory is apparently religious and brings up her faith several times during the story. I suppose it could have been added as one of the ways she’s working on her addiction, but these mentions of God and going to church felt completely out of place and unnecessary to the story. There’s also a subplot about how Mitzi is a drug addict, which I didn’t believe for a second. Later we realize there is a reason the author needed that element in the story, so that a particular thing could happen at the end, but the whole thing felt so forced, I’m sure there was a better way to work out that storyline.
The finale takes a bizarre turn into over-the-top violence, but to be honest, I thought it was all in good fun. Hidden Pictures wasn’t perfect, but I certainly had a fun time reading it, and in the end, Rekulak adds some nice emotional moments and gives his readers a satisfactory resolution to Anya’s story.
Big thanks to the publisher for providing a review copy.
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I really enjoy a mystery that’s able to keep you guessing and having that supernatural element, or at least the possibility of it, is often a great touch. Sounds like a book worth trying.
It was a nice combo of mystery and supernatural:-)
Thanks Stephanie! It was very creepy:-)
Well when you put it that way…;-)
It was definitely fun and twisty!
Ooh, I like the idea of the illustrations in the book! I don’t read thrillers very often, but this sounds appealing!
It was a ton of fun:-)
Thanks Debjani! I loved the illustrations:-)
Interesting!
It was very interesting:-)
I’m intrigued by the idea of a thriller with illustrations. I don’t think I’ve ever read one like that before.
It’s my first, and I thought it worked great!
I have an audio copy of this so I’ll miss the visuals, but this sounds awesome! I’ll definitely have to bump it up on my list.
The illustrations definitely added to the experience, but I’d be curious to hear how the audio is.
Ooh love the creepy drawing! I’m adding to my list!
I love a thriller with supernatural elements so this is gong on the list. Lynn 😀
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Fresh out of rehab, Mallory Quinn takes a job in the affluent suburb of Spring Brook, New Jersey as a babysitter for Ted and Caroline Maxwell. She is to look after their five-year-old son, Teddy.
Mallory immediately loves this new job. She lives in the Maxwell’s pool house, goes out for nightly runs, and has the stability she craves. And she sincerely bonds with Teddy, a sweet, shy boy who is never without his sketchbook and pencil. His drawings are the usual fare: trees, rabbits, balloons. But one day, he draws something different: a man in a forest, dragging a woman’s lifeless body.
As the days pass, Teddy’s artwork becomes more and more sinister, and his stick figures steadily evolve into more detailed, complex, and lifelike sketches well beyond the ability of any five-year-old. Mallory begins to suspect these are glimpses of an unsolved murder from long ago, perhaps relayed by a supernatural force lingering in the forest behind the Maxwell’s house.
With help from a handsome landscaper and an eccentric neighbor, Mallory sets out to decipher the images and save Teddy—while coming to terms with a tragedy in her own past—before it’s too late.
Intense, eerie, and dark!
Hidden Pictures is a haunting, character-driven thriller that takes you into the life of recovering addict Mallory Quinn who, after recently being hired to nanny the delightful five-year-old Teddy, whose love for drawing and his imaginative friend Anya become creepier day by day, discovers quickly that something isn’t right in this seemingly perfect home of Ted and Caroline Maxwell, and that someone or something is determined to reveal the secrets they’re desperately trying to hide.
The prose is unsettling and taut. The characters are suspicious, troubled, and wary. And the plot is a simmering, sinister tale of familial drama, class division, tension, deception, violence, and desperation, all interwoven with a sliver of the supernatural.
Overall, Hidden Pictures is a tight, creepy, atmospheric tale by Rekulak that, with its quick pace and disturbing illustrations, kept me unnerved and highly entertained right from the very first page.
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Jason Rekulak is the author of The Impossible Fortress, which was translated into 12 languages and was nominated for the Edgar Award. For many years, he was the publisher of Quirk Books, an independent press, where he acquired and edited multiple New York Times bestsellers. He lives in Philadelphia with his family.
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This sounds so good! I need to get a copy. Thanks for the review Zoe
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Hidden Pictures , Jason Rekulak (Flatiron Books 978-1-250-81934-5, $27.99, 384pp, hc) May 2022. Cover by Donna Sinisgalli Noetzel.
Jason Rekulak’s Hidden Pictures is one of those rare horror novels that manages to rake a few tired clichés and turn them into something fresh and incredibly engaging. At once a novel about ghosts, murder, and possession and a narrative that deals with overcoming addiction and finding a way to navigate life once you’ve lost everything, this is the kind of story that shows horror fiction can simultaneously be creepy, pulpy, touching, and smart.
Mallory Quinn has just left rehab and is in the process of rebuilding her life from scratch while trying to keep the demons of addiction away. Part of that process is finding a job, so when she lands one babysitting a five-year-old named Teddy for the summer – a gig that includes a room off the family’s patio in a very expensive neighborhood – she’s both extremely happy and worried. Caroline Maxwell,
Teddy’s mom, works with recovering users, so she’s on Mallory’s side from the start. Teddy’s father is a different story. Despite the tension, Mallory immediately falls in love with Teddy and her work, and falls into a comfortable routine of taking care of Teddy, going for runs around the neighborhood, and watching Hallmark movies on her tablet. Then things start to change.
Teddy is a sweet, shy boy who loves playing with animals, going on walks through the nearby woods, and playing in the pool. He also loves to draw, and his drawings are the first thing that tells Mallory something isn’t quite right. Teddy usually draws stick figures and animals, but then his drawings take a turn and he starts drawing beheaded people, a woman being dragged in the forest, and a dead woman. Then they get darker, and they are way more detailed and sinister than Teddy’s young brain should be able to dream up. Mallory worries about Teddy, but his parents won’t hear of it. When Mallory hears Teddy talking in his room when he’s supposed to be alone and then his drawings get even worse, she becomes convinced there is an entity trying to communicate through the little boy’s drawings, and she decides to get to the bottom of it, putting herself and her job at risk.
There’s a lot to like about Hidden Pictures. However, the most immediate element that grabs readers’ attention is the art that accompanies the book. Teddy’s illustrations are not only mentioned, described, and discussed; they show up in the book. Brilliantly and creepily brought to live by artists Will Staehle and Doogie Horner, Teddy’s drawings are the central piece of the puzzle at the heart of the novel, and seeing them adds a wonderful layer of creepiness to the reading experience. Also, kids drawing creepy things is a horror cliché, but Rekulak manages to position the illustrations at the center of the book in a way that feels new and feeds the mystery Mallory is trying to solve. Breathing new life into old tropes is no easy task, but Rekulak pulled it off brilliantly here.
While the illustrations are great, Hidden Pictures is memorable for two other things: Rekulak’s talent for character development and the wonderful way in which he weaves together genre elements from horror, mystery, and thrillers. Mallory is a complex, troubled character. She’s trying hard to build a new life, but the guilt of a horrible accident in which her little sister died, the broken relationship with her mother, and the lies she finds herself telling a young man she meets and falls for all haunt her. Also, her past troubles are hard to ignore when she starts hearing things and becomes convinced there’s a presence in the house that is possessing Teddy and using his hand to draw the scary images. Throughout the story, she fails and tries again, she lies and then comes clean, she ruins everything, and, instead of quitting or falling into addiction again, she keeps fighting to make things right.
The second element that makes this a standout novel is the seamless way in which the author weaves together all its elements. This is a tale of ghosts, possession, murder, mystery, and messages from beyond the grave. There is everything in here from creepy drawings and a séance with a Ouija board to strange sounds in the woods and a scary passage involving a baby monitor. However, the narrative is also about Mallory’s past and how it affects her present and seems to be the biggest thing keeping her from a great future, the way our psychology can play tricks on us, the way your socioeconomic background seems to dictate the opportunities you receive. There’s even a bit of romance. While these are all very different elements, Rekulak mixes them together well and the end result is a strong, engaging novel that’s about people and their problems as much as it is about ghosts and a terrible story that took place long ago.
Modern horror is all about mixing genres while keeping its dark heart intact, and that’s what Hidden Pictures does. This is a horror novel that’s also a thriller, a mystery, and a story about overcoming the odds and surviving. Rekulak is a talented storyteller, and this one will be one of the biggest horror books of the summer. It deserves all the attention it gets.
Gabino Iglesias is a writer, journalist, professor, and book reviewer living in Austin TX. He is the author of Zero Saints and Coyote Songs and the editor of Both Sides . His work has been nominated to the Bram Stoker and Locus Awards and won the Wonderland Book Award for Best Novel in 2019. His short stories have appeared in a plethora of anthologies and his non-fiction has appeared in the New York Times , the Los Angeles Times , and CrimeReads . His work has been published in five languages, optioned for film, and praised by authors as diverse as Roxane Gay, David Joy, Jerry Stahl, and Meg Gardiner. His reviews appear regularly in places like NPR, Publishers Weekly , the San Francisco Chronicle , Criminal Element , Mystery Tribune , Vol. 1 Brooklyn , the Los Angeles Review of Books , and other print and online venues. He’s been a juror for the Shirley Jackson Awards twice and has judged the PANK Big Book Contest, the Splatterpunk Awards, and the Newfound Prose Prize. He teaches creative writing at Southern New Hampshire University’s online MFA program. You can find him on Twitter at @Gabino_Iglesias .
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“One of the hardest things about recovery is coming to terms with the fact that you can’t trust your brain anymore. In fact, you need to understand that your brain has become your own worst enemy. It will steer you toward bad choices, override logic and common sense, and warp your most cherished memories into impossible fantasies,” (Rekulak 5).
Mallory Quinn is eighteen-months sober and finds herself a babysitting job in the privileged neighbourhood on Spring Brook, New Jersey. Ted and Caroline Maxwell seem like kind and doting parents who will do anything for their five-year-old son Teddy, who takes an immediate shine to Mallory, and she loves her job. The neighbourhood is safe for her nightly runs, she enjoys the cottage pool house that she lives in, and she loves looking after Teddy, and Teddy loves showing Mallory the pictures he draws. They’re the sweet sort of drawings one expects from a kid: a rabbit, a balloon, of Mallory herself. But then one day Teddy gives her a picture of a woman’s body being dragged through the woods, and then the pictures get more disturbing and far more detailed than a five-year-old is capable of drawing. But when Mallory finds out that a young artist was murdered in the cottage she now calls home years before, she wonders if Teddy’s drawings may be a message from the young woman. Mallory sets out to find out what the spirit wants from her and Teddy before it’s too late.
I have a lot to say about this book, so spoilers ahead!
I have to say, this is the first time I’ve read a book that jumped the shark in it’s last third. It’s honestly impressive how the story changed at almost exactly the three-hundred-page mark. And it’s really disappointing, because Hidden Pictures started off as a really good horror. I mean, it was literally Goodreads Reader’s Choice for Horror for 2022 . I’ll admit, I hadn’t heard of the book until I was reading the Goodreads Reader’s Choice Winners, but it won and I was intrigued, that had to count for something.
And honestly, Rekulak pulled me in. I loved how he wrote Mallory’s voice, it was simple and vague, hinting at a darker, tragic past without actually giving anything away. He made Mallory suspicious and flawed, a character that I was truly rooting for. The story was creepy, the writing was easy to follow, I was hooked. I wanted to know what happened to Annie Barret, the artist who had died in Mallory’s cottage, I wanted to know what Teddy was doing during Quiet Time and what his drawings meant. And the drawings are easily the best part of this book. Doogie Horner and Will Staehl do an excellent job creating perfectly creepy childish illustrations that I wouldn’t keep or put on my fridge if a kid gave them to me and seamlessly transitions into the gorgeous professional illustrations that come later in the book. They’re beautiful, they’re sickening, they’re terrifying and really enhanced the overall creep factor of the book. I was so into the story, I thought Hidden Pictures might be a new favourite horror for me.
But the ending…
Last chance to leave, otherwise, WELCOME TO SPOILER CENTRAL!
The last third of the book turns everything you were expecting on it’s head. Rekulak reveals that Teddy is actually a cisgender girl named Flora (and for the rest of the review I will be calling her Flora) who was kidnapped at a very young age by Ted and Caroline Maxwell after they accidentally killed and buried her mother, Margit. In order to escape authorities they cut Flora’s hair, dressed and presented her as a boy to the public, and kidnapped her. They called her Teddy and introduced her to the world as their son. Near the end when “the big reveal” happens, Mallory tells Caroline that she knows Teddy is a girl to which Caroline lies that Teddy is trans: “Obviously, Teddy was born a girl…We knew about your religious convictions–” (Rekulak 319-320).
I’ll also mention that Mallory being religious really isn’t mentioned aside from the fact that as a recovery addict Mallory has “worked the Twelve Steps and I have surrendered my life to my lord and savior Jesus Christ” and that she wears a cross necklace (Rekulak 5). One of the list of rules Mallory receives when starting to take care of Flora is “No religion or superstitions. Teach science” (Rekulak 15) which Mallory never pushes, though her being religious somehow makes her more willing to believe in ghosts and seances and seek the help of next door neighbour drug-addict Mitzi, and Mallory only briefly shows the urge to relapse. I obviously can’t speak for all Christians and religions, but I do know people who weren’t allowed to watch Caspar the Friendly Ghost growing up because his existence showed there was no Heaven. So take from that where you will.
And then Caroline uses Mallory’s religion as an excuse for lying about Flora’s gender identity even though FLORA IS NOT TRANS! There are many very real parents of trans kids who do have to worry about religious/conservative individuals judging their children for their identity, but as one reviewer excellently put Caroline weaponizes transphobia in order to get away with the fact that she killed Flora’s mother. This plot device reinforces the transphobic belief that parents of trans kids are just forcing their children to identify differently and completely invalidates the identity of real trans individuals and children.
There are some clumsy hints Rekulak provides about Flora’s gender identity throughout the book: she always wants to play Dorothy when playing Land of Oz, expresses interest in wanting long hair like the Cowardly Lion and has tantrums when being taken to the barber to have it cut, she asks Mallory about her private parts which results in Caroline getting books on gender and sexuality for Flora to read when SHE KNOWS SHE’S RAISING A CISGENDER GIRL AS A BOY. Mallory makes sure to mention that the books cover topics of anal sex and cunnilingus: “The next day [Caroline] comes home with a giant stack of picture books with titles like It’s Perfectly Normal! and Where Did I Come From? … There are detailed definitions of anal sex, cunnilingus, and genderqueer expression. With full-colour drawings and everything” (Rekulak 116). The fact that Rekulak makes sure to mention anal sex and genderqueer identity in the same sentence, as well as Mallory’s own objection to Flora being taught about her body, and that Caroline pretends Flora is a trans kid makes an unfortunate reinforcement of violence/predator with the queer and trans community, which is also a problematic and toxic idea.
And then there’s a weird point near the end when Mallory recognizes Flora as a cisgender girl: “It was really remarkable how a blue dress and slightly longer hair shifted my entire perception of you. Just a few subtle cues and my brain did the rest of the work, flipping all the switches. You used to be a boy. Now, you were a girl,” (Rekulak 365). Flora was never a boy but forced to present and believe she was one, she was never trans, and a dress and long hair doesn’t equal what it means to be a girl. Hair and clothes aren’t gendered.
This “twist” came out of nowhere and was done purely for shock value. It is so insulting to the trans community and trans readers, I can’t believe Rekulak wrote this into his book, that his editor and publisher had no problem with this plotline, and that more reviewers haven’t called him out on this.
The last third of the book nearly reads like an entirely different book. What started as a horror ghost story turns into a thriller with a psychotic couple literally forcing a child to present as a different gender so they won’t be discovered as murderers/kidnappers. Caroline and Ted become satires of themselves, it was almost comical reading how ridiculous they were speaking and presented for the rest of the book.
There’s also a weird part with Mallory where she mentions her time as a user and takes care to mention that she was never raped, and that she’s very fit and physically much stronger than the privileged people around her because she runs and swims and works out despite only being sober for eighteen months. It’s like Rekulak wrote Mallory as a past addict to make her unreliable, but didn’t actually want to give her the qualities that many addicts face like relapse or physical and sexual abuse. It’s almost like Rekulak made her a “good victim,” a tragic heroine who readers will sympathize with because she avoided the fate of other addicts.
And also, copaganda! Adrian, a Mexican landscaper who comes from a wealthy family that becomes Mallory’s love interest, is viewed in a prejudiced light by Mitzi who says “[t]his might sound racist but it’s true. These men–they’ve already broken the law once, when they crossed the border. So if a criminal sees a pretty girl all alone in a backyard, what’s stopping him?” (Rekulak 60). And Mallory is understandably and correctly horrified by Mitzi’s racist outburst, but later when Adrian is being frisked by police after he and Mallory snoop around Mitzi’s house, Mallory says: “Adrian seems to think he doesn’t have to listen to them, that he’s somehow above the law” (Rekulak 285).
MALLORY! HE’S A PERSON OF COLOUR! IT DOESN’T MATTER THAT HE’S RICH, NOTICE HOW THEY’RE FRISKING HIM BUT NOT YOU, A WHITE WOMAN?! A WHITE WOMAN WHO, AS A FORMER ADDICT, PROBABLY HAD SOME NOT SO GREAT RUN INS WITH THE POLICE?!
And then, as if random transphobia and copaganda wasn’t enough, surprise fatphobia! When Mallory rehashes the death of her sister, it is necessary that she mentions that her mother worked in a hospital and that she was fat. She was so fat! Mallory’s mom “was short, overweight, and she smoked a pack a day–even though she worked at Mercy Hospital…so she knew all the health risks,” (Rekulak 248). But then when Mallory reunites with her mother at the end she’s wearing leggings, she’s got a Fitbit! Rekulak says that the “biggest surprise was learning that my mother had started running! All through high school, Beth and I could never drag her off the couch, but now she was pacing nine-minute miles. Now she had Lycra shorts and a Fitbit and everything,” (Rekulak 360-361).
WHAT WAS THE POINT OF THIS?!
And then, to top it all off, the last chapter of the book is even weirder because it’s written in second person as a sort of letter to Flora where Mallory explains WHY THE BOOK IS WRITTEN SO BADLY. Again, I had no issue with Mallory’s voice. I liked that it was simple and straightforward, no purple prose, just a young woman telling her story. But for whatever reason Rekulak felt he needed to explain WHY the book used the voice it did.
Hidden Pictures started as a great horror with chilling pictures adding a great haunting factor to the book, but it completely fell apart in it’s last third. I honestly have no idea how so few reviewers, from BookTok and beyond, are talking about this. To use such outdated, dangerous tropes for horror and shock value against the trans community is disgusting, and I can’t believe this book was able to get published when everything hinged on this toxic “twist.”
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Fresh out of rehab, Mallory Quinn takes a job in the affluent suburb of Spring Brook, New Jersey as a babysitter for Ted and Caroline Maxwell. She is to look after their five-year-old son, Teddy. Mallory immediately loves this new job. She lives in the Maxwell’s pool house, goes out for nightly runs, and has the stability she craves. And she sincerely bonds with Teddy, a sweet, shy boy who is never without his sketchbook and pencil. His drawings are the usual fare: trees, rabbits, balloons. But one day, he draws something different: a man in a forest, dragging a woman’s lifeless body. As the days pass, Teddy’s artwork becomes more and more sinister, and his stick figures steadily evolve into more detailed, complex, and lifelike sketches well beyond the ability of any five-year-old. Mallory begins to suspect these are glimpses of an unsolved murder from long ago, perhaps relayed by a supernatural force lingering in the forest behind the Maxwell’s house. With help from a handsome landscaper and an eccentric neighbor, Mallory sets out to decipher the images and save Teddy—while coming to terms with a tragedy in her own past—before it’s too late.
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Written by Jason Rekulak 2022, 384 pages, Fiction Released on 10th May 2022
I had never previously heard of Jason Rekulak or his second novel Hidden Pictures until it reached the latter stages of the 2022 Goodreads Choice Award , eventually winning the horror category. It is rare for a horror novel to do so outstandingly well in a major book competition without it appearing on my radar, so I had to track it down to satisfy my curiosity. Interestingly, subsequent conversations with authors, bloggers and fellow reviewers revealed that others were equally mystified how a novel which had clearly picked up next to zero attention in the horror press could win such a big award.
The horror genre bubble is miniscule in comparison to the mainstream publishers which dictate the tastes of a massive percentage of the book buying public and as Hidden Pictures is released by Sphere, it certainly had one of the bigger boys promoting it. It also has this cool Stephen King quote on the front cover: “I loved it… the surprises really surprise, and it has that hard to achieve propulsiveness that won’t let you put it down.” Other quotes from Grady Hendrix , Ransom Riggs, and major UK newspapers The Times and The Daily Mail back up the fact it clearly did pick up mainstream coverage (even if it passed me by for whatever reason). Most years there is a breakout ‘supernatural thriller’ hit and Hidden Pictures is clearly that book for 2022, which it will surely carry into 2023 with the momentum gathered from the surprising Goodreads victory.
But is it any good and worth the hype? Yes, and definitely yes. This is exactly the type of thriller with a supernatural edge to it which would be popular with readers who are not attracted to more traditional horror fiction. Hidden Pictures does precisely what its publicity promises and is an amazingly easy-to-read dark thriller. I do not always agree with the endless cycle of Stephen King quotations which appear on new releases, but on this occasion, King nails it. This is a clever page-turner which is hard to put down, demanding 100% of your attention. As King alludes to, it does indeed include some very clever twists, plot shifts and very sneaky misdirection. For the most part it uses ambiguity beautifully, balancing a potential supernatural riff with a main character who is not quite an unreliable narrator. I read the 372 pages over three evenings and had an outstanding time with this novel and even if the idea of a ‘twist’ ending is overhyped, I was very satisfied with how things play out and did not feel cheated in the slightest.
It is exceedingly difficult to review this book without heading feet first into spoiler territory, so I am going to keep the summary of the plot both brief and vague. The first great strength of Hidden Pictures is the first-person narrative of the main character Mallory, a young woman in early recovery (18 months) from drug addiction. As a teenager, she had a promising career as a distance runner, which was cut short by an accident, then addiction to painkillers which spiraled to much harder drugs followed. When the novel opens, Mallory is about to be interviewed as a live-in nanny for four-year-old Teddy.
You might wonder why a rich couple (Caroline and Ted) might be interested in hiring a young drug addict to look after their kid, but Caroline works in the medical field and is keen to give Mallory a second chance, but her husband is more reluctant. Mallory loves Teddy and the summer house she is given to live in is perfect and initially everything goes like a dream. In the evenings, Mallory goes on long runs. She meets a nice guy and feels she has the perfect opportunity to rebuild her life and perhaps come to terms with the skeletons lurking in her closet. She also stops attending Narcotics Anonymous meetings but keeps in touch with her sponsor (like a counsellor) by phone and the odd meeting.
But things do not remain peaceful for long, as soon Teddy starts to draw disturbing pictures of an imaginary friend he calls Anya. It is quite clear to Mallory and to Teddy's parents, even in his crude childlike style, that the woman Teddy is drawing in his pictures is dead. Soon, the pictures begin to get more and more sophisticated and Mallory takes her concerns to Teddy’s parents. From that moment on, things begin to get extremely complicated and nothing is quite what it seems.
Hidden Pictures did a terrific job of keeping me on the hook and I loved the manner in which the drawings are added seamlessly into the story, magnifying Mallory’s paranoia. I studied them very carefully! The interactions between the four characters are also terrific. Ted and Caroline as Mallory’s employers hold all the power, but her obsession with the drawings trumps even that. Supernatural thrillers do not get much slicker than Hidden Pictures and I appreciated the twists lurking within the tightly written story. Jason Rekulak previously worked for the indie publisher Quirk Books, who have released fiction by many top horror authors, including Grady Hendrix and Clay McLeod Chapman , so undoubtedly Jason had a wealth of reading experience to draw upon when writing this excellent novel. It certainly shows.
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✨ This book is slowly making it’s way around the book community, and sounded very intriguing.
💜 This book was a fast read, with paranormal elements. I devoured it. There were twists I didn’t expect, and the main character was very sympathetic. It’s the story of a nanny and the child she looks after. But then, weird things start happening.
💥 I loved this book and would have given it a full 5 stars, except I reserve that for books I would read again. After knowing the twists, I don’t think this would have the same impact.
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From Jason Rekulak, Edgar-nominated author of The Impossible Fortress , comes a wildly inventive spin on the classic horror story in Hidden Pictures , a creepy and warm-hearted mystery about a woman working as a nanny for a young boy with strange and disturbing secrets. Fresh out of rehab, Mallory Quinn takes a job in the affluent suburb of Spring Brook, New Jersey as a babysitter for Ted and Caroline Maxwell. She is to look after their five-year-old son, Teddy. Mallory immediately loves this new job. She lives in the Maxwell’s pool house, goes out for nightly runs, and has the stability she craves. And she sincerely bonds with Teddy, a sweet, shy boy who is never without his sketchbook and pencil. His drawings are the usual fare: trees, rabbits, balloons. But one day, he draws something different: a man in a forest, dragging a woman’s lifeless body. As the days pass, Teddy’s artwork becomes more and more sinister, and his stick figures steadily evolve into more detailed, complex, and lifelike sketches well beyond the ability of any five-year-old. Mallory begins to suspect these are glimpses of an unsolved murder from long ago, perhaps relayed by a supernatural force lingering in the forest behind the Maxwell’s house. With help from a handsome landscaper and an eccentric neighbor, Mallory sets out to decipher the images and save Teddy—while coming to terms with a tragedy in her own past—before it’s too late.
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"It's almost enough to make a person believe in ghosts..." ― Kirkus Reviews "The explosive third act gives this story a nail-biting ending sure to thrill. Paranormal perfection ." ― Booklist “Beautiful, terrifying, and surprisingly kind.” ―CrimeReads "I read Hidden Pictures and loved it. The language is straightforward, the surprises really surprise, and it has that hard-to-achieve propulsiveness that won't let you put it down. And the pictures are terrific!" ― Stephen King “Whip-smart, creepy as hell, and masterfully plotted, Hidden Pictures is the best new thriller novel I’ve read in years. Destined to be a classic of the genre.” ―Ransom Riggs, bestselling author of Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children “Hidden Pictures is one of those rare gems that’s aware of the rules of the genre even as it breaks them and invents new ones. It’s a gas to read, full of wonderful new ideas, both literary and visual. This is one of those books you leave out long after finishing, just so your friends might see it and give you the chance to share it! Jason Rekulak is going to be telling us all stories for a good long while.” ―Scott Frank, Academy Award-nominated screenwriter and Emmy-winning director of The Queen’s Gambit "For a few days, my life was completely hijacked by Jason Rekulak's Hidden Pictures , one of the best and most inventive ghost stories I've read in years. The damaged but still fighting Mallory Quinn stole my heart and her plunge into supernatural wonder gripped my imagination. It's a beautiful dark rush of a novel. I'm already excited to read it again." ―Joe Hill “ Hidden Pictures isn’t a ghost story, it’s a scalpel that slices into our smug sense of self-satisfaction so deeply it hits bone. A perfect summer thriller complete with vengeful spirits, class warfare, and it even has pictures. What more could you want?” ―Grady Hendrix, bestselling author of The Final Girl Support Group
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Mallory Quinn is 21 years old a recovering drug addict and has been clean for 18 months now. She gets a job as a nanny to 5 year old Teddy and lives in the guest house at the parents house. Something is strange with Teddy. He has an imaginary friend named Anya and he draws some weird pictures that seem to tell a story. It seems to lead to a long rumored story about a death that took place in the house where Mallory now lives back in 1948. Mallory thinks there is a ghost that is taking over Timmy’s body to draw the pictures. The more Mallory investigates leads to a series of weird things happening, the truth about what happened all those years ago and a truly shocking twist that explains everything that has been happening, to say anymore would be spoilers. If you’re a fan of supernatural mysteries, this book is right up you alley. An intense story you don’t want to put down. The author includes the pictures that are being drawn, which helps the story out in a big way, as we’re able to see the pics as Mallory sees them. It really enhances the story and is a nice touch.
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BANGKOK TRAVEL GUIDE 2024: Your Comprehensive 2024 Travel Companion for Discovering Hidden Gems, Cultural Treasures, and Modern Marvels in Thailand's Vibrant Capital Kindle Edition
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Thank you to Macmillan Audio and NetGalley who provided me with a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. All the thoughts and opinions are my own. Read more of my reviews at www.openbookposts.com. audiobook horror netgalley. 124 likes ... For most of this novel, Hidden Pictures was a solid 4-star read. I liked Mallory, was moved by ...
Pre-publication book reviews and features keeping readers and industry influencers in the know since 1933. ... HIDDEN PICTURES. ... Indeed, the novel does double duty as a survival manual, packed full of good advice—for instance, try not to get wounded, for "injury turns you from a giver to a taker. Taking up our resources, our time to care ...
Hidden Pictures was a fun and entertaining horror. Creepy, but not too creepy. Weird, but not too out there. Great to kill a couple of lazy evenings. And if that's what you are looking for, Hidden Pictures by Jason Rekulak is a great option. Tags: 5 Star Books Horror My Favorites Mystery Paranormal Thriller.
Hidden Pictures is a thrilling and intelligent horror novel. It's a well-crafted novel that demonstrates Jason Rekulak's mastery of storytelling, pacing, and character development. The supernatural elements of the book are well-conceived and deliberately shaped to compel the reader's interest.
Hidden Pictures by Jason Rekulak (with illustrations by Doogie Horner and Will Staehleill) is now available from Flatiron Books. Although I received a complimentary advance copy of this book, all opinions expressed in this review are my own, and I was not compensated in any way for this review or for any other promotion/publicity I've done ...
Jayne B+ Reviews / Book Reviews addict / Contemporary / Dark / Drugs / dysfunctional family / First-Person / horror elements / murder mystery / nanny / New-Jersey / Paranormal / present tense / Young-Adult 6 Comments. From Jason Rekulak, Edgar-nominated author of The Impossible Fortress, comes a wildly inventive spin on the classic horror story in Hidden Pictures, a creepy and warm-hearted ...
I truly think that horror-thriller 'Hidden Pictures' by Jason Rekulak, the Edgar-nominated author of 'The Impossible Fortress,' is one of those twisty novels that is best read with as little beforehand knowledge about the ins and outs of the story as possible. It's entertaining and engaging as hell, with Rekulak deftly moving the story along ...
Published by Flatiron Books on May 10 2022. Genres: Adult, Horror, Thriller. Pages: 384. Format: ARC. Source: Publisher. Buy on Amazon. Goodreads. The nitty-gritty: A unique format makes this supernatural thriller a fun escape from everyday life. Hidden Pictures was a very good thriller with lots of surprises, and the book is full of ...
Hidden Pictures is way more than meets the eye from the synopsis. It is the story of a young girl with solid mental strength, recovering from addiction and wanting the best for her five year old friend. She is loving and caring and looks out for Teddy to the best of her capacity. The story moves at a good pace and fleshes out multiple ...
Review: Intense, eerie, and dark! Hidden Pictures is a haunting, character-driven thriller that takes you into the life of recovering addict Mallory Quinn who, after recently being hired to nanny the delightful five-year-old Teddy, whose love for drawing and his imaginative friend Anya become creepier day by day, discovers quickly that something isn't right in this seemingly perfect home of ...
However, when I noticed it'd won the 2022 Goodreads Choice Award in Best Horror, I set aside my assumptions about the seemingly derivative premise and bought a copy, hoping it'd impress me ...
Hidden Pictures, Jason Rekulak (Flatiron Books 978-1-250-81934-5, $27.99, 384pp, hc) May 2022. Cover by Donna Sinisgalli Noetzel. Jason Rekulak's Hidden Pictures is one of those rare horror novels that manages to rake a few tired clichés and turn them into something fresh and incredibly engaging. At once a novel about ghosts, murder, and ...
And it's really disappointing, because Hidden Pictures started off as a really good horror. I mean, it was literally Goodreads Reader's Choice for Horror for 2022 . I'll admit, I hadn't heard of the book until I was reading the Goodreads Reader's Choice Winners, but it won and I was intrigued, that had to count for something.
Hidden Pictures: A Novel. Hardcover - May 10, 2022. "I loved it." ―Stephen King. From Edgar Award-finalist Jason Rekulak comes a wildly inventive spin on the supernatural thriller, for fans of Stranger Things and Riley Sager, about a woman working as a nanny for a young boy with strange and disturbing secrets.
It is exceedingly difficult to review this book without heading feet first into spoiler territory, so I am going to keep the summary of the plot both brief and vague. The first great strength of Hidden Pictures is the first-person narrative of the main character Mallory, a young woman in early recovery (18 months) from drug addiction. As a ...
The Review Hidden Pictures. This book is slowly making it's way around the book community, and sounded very intriguing. This book was a fast read, with paranormal elements. I devoured it. There were twists I didn't expect, and the main character was very sympathetic. It's the story of a nanny and the child she looks after.
And the pictures are terrific!" —Stephen King. "Whip-smart, creepy as hell, and masterfully plotted, Hidden Pictures is the best new thriller novel I've read in years. Destined to be a classic of the genre." —Ransom Riggs, bestselling author of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. "Hidden Pictures is one of those rare gems ...
Hidden Pictures: A Novel. Paperback - May 10 2022. "I loved it." ―Stephen King. From Edgar Award-finalist Jason Rekulak comes a wildly inventive spin on the supernatural thriller, for fans of Stranger Things and Riley Sager, about a woman working as a nanny for a young boy with strange and disturbing secrets.
02/14/2022. Rekulak (The Impossible Fortress) uses horror as a lens to bring the dark underbelly of suburbia into focus in this gripping supernatural thriller.Narrator Mallory Quinn is a 21-year-old recovering addict getting a second chance as a live-in nanny to five-year-old Teddy Maxwell, a sweet-natured young artist whose wonderfully creepy pictures appear throughout the novel.
An intense story you don't want to put down. The author includes the pictures that are being drawn, which helps the story out in a big way, as we're able to see the pics as Mallory sees them. It really enhances the story and is a nice touch. You can pick up Hidden Pictures in stores on Tuesday, May 10th from Flatiron books.
Author 2 books 11 followers. June 8, 2022. Reviewed in the United States on May 29, 2022. Hidden Pictures is a fictional story about teen bullying, rape, and infidelity, and the struggles of those who must endure young and harsh supervisors who see them as "gray and in the way".
An Amazon Best Book of May 2022: Rekulak runs his fingers down your spine with a pulse-pounding thriller, steeped in the supernatural and fueled by alarming twists. In Hidden Pictures, Mallory Quinn is an ex-drug addict with a chance at redemption working as a nanny for the Maxwell's, a seemingly perfect family living in an idyllic neighborhood.But when her sweet five-year-old charge begins ...
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An Amazon Best Book of May 2022: Rekulak runs his fingers down your spine with a pulse-pounding thriller, steeped in the supernatural and fueled by alarming twists. In Hidden Pictures, Mallory Quinn is an ex-drug addict with a chance at redemption working as a nanny for the Maxwell's, a seemingly perfect family living in an idyllic neighborhood.But when her sweet five-year-old charge begins ...
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