Hidden Pictures by Jason Rekulak review

About The Book

Book: Hidden Pictures
Author: Jason Rekulak
Standalone or Series: Standalone
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group (this US edition is Flatiron Books)
Publication Date (UK): 20th May 2022

🔍Standout Read. Awarded to books I highly recommend.

My Review

I have been meaning to read this for a while now. I’ve had the ebook for ages and couldn’t resist a paperback when we visited The Mysterious Bookshop while on holiday. I had heard so many good things about the book, though it didn’t seem like something I would normally read. A little like The Last House on Needless Street – which I ended up loving – in the sense that I wasn’t sure if it would be for me, and could it live up to the hype? And wow. The answer is simply yes.

In Hidden Pictures, we meet 21-year-old Mallory, fresh out of rehab and 18 months sober. Living in a halfway house, she’s trying to rebuild her life when her sponsor arranges a babysitting job for the Maxwells and their 5-year-old son, Teddy. They have just moved from Barcelona to New Jersey. Teddy is inquisitive but shies away from other children and prefers to spend time playing with Mallory. He’s started drawing, a hobby his parents said has only developed since they moved to Spring Brook. His pictures soon depict an imaginary friend, but they begin to take a dark turn and become far too detailed for a young child to have created…

This prompts Mallory to delve into the history of the house and its previous inhabitants in a bid to uncover the hidden truth within Teddy’s pictures.

I loved the illustrations by Will Staehle and Doogie Horner. They really enhanced the atmosphere, and I genuinely felt a bit anxious about what would appear next as I turned the page, especially when groups of images appeared together. Hidden Pictures is a truly unique supernatural thriller that I would heartily recommend to anyone.

Have you read Hidden Pictures? What did you think of its eerie illustrations and suspenseful twists?

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