So, a girl easy to root for and in some ways relate to. Determined to make the best she can out of the rest of her life. Someone who has definitely had her share of mistakes in the past, but seems to have come out of it stronger. 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.Īnd, of course, the protagonist. Plus the local legends about a tragedy in the past that might be reaching its fingers all the way to the present. The contrast between the beautiful, quiet neighborhood during warm, sunny summer days and the increasing horror unfolding in one of the houses. 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.įirst, the setting. There are so many pieces to the puzzle, my head is starting to hurt. I just had to see what so many people liked about it.Īnd straight out of the gate, several elements made Rekulak’s Hidden Pictures work so well. 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. Hidden Pictures by Jason Rekulak offered just that and it sounded like it might be a hundred percent my kind of thing.

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 – My Review Maybe it’s the kind of grief we will never ever shake, not even after we’re dead. 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. 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.Īs 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.īut 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? 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. She even managed to find a job as a nanny in a prosperous suburb of Spring Brook, New Jersey. And though that battle never ends, she’s doing much better. Mallory Quinn has been battling Ox圜ontin and heroin addiction for the past eighteen months. Goodreads Choice Award winner for Best Horror of 2022! And someone is looking up from the bottom of a very deep hole. A woman is being dragged through a forest. RATED ON GOODREADS – 4.20 of 5 What It Is AboutĪ man is digging a grave.

GENRE – horror, thriller, mystery, paranormal

ILLUSTRATORS – Will Staehle, Doogie Horner

Hidden Pictures by Jason Rekulak – Book Details

Hidden pictures by jason rekulak