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The transphobia comes out near the end, as the "twist" of this thriller. Turns out the child our MC is caring for was kidnapped by her Evil Atheist ParentsTM and forced to live as a boy to hide their identity and also, it seems, because they just wanted a son rather than a daughter. Now, there is so much that isn't ok here. Y, por cierto, ¡qué problema tiene esta gente con la oxycodina, que una vez que te la recetan te condenan a vagar como un zombi por el sistema de salud americano! Pero parece que el problema es real. Lo atestiguan las numerosas novelas y series en las que este medicamento se convierte en un protagonista indeseado. Thank you so so so much to my fellow bookstahoe for gifting me this book. While I didn't love it as much as you... I think we're even because you disliked my rec Find Her LOL.

Even though Mr. Maxwell seems to be quite concerned about Mallory's past drug use, she still ends up securing the position. She's elated. Now it is time to prove herself. This is her chance to rebuild her life. We meet Mallory Quinn, a 21-year-old survivor with a tragic past and a history of addiction. After 18 months of sobriety, she's ready to start a new chapter in her life. With the help of her sponsor, she lands a summer job as a nanny for five-year-old Teddy, the son of Caroline and Ted Maxwell. The Maxwells are staunch believers in science, atheists who have a strict set of rules for Mallory to follow, including no drug use or fooling around. The fact that this won the Goodreads Choice Awards for horror is wild to me. Because content aside, the plot has a lot of things that don't make sense and near the end gets wildly over the top. And our MC wins the award for WORST nanny of the year. I have a lot to say about this so stay tuned for a video discussion. La novela tiene alguna cosilla que sí te provoca levantar las cejas, pero no de espanto, precisamente. Lo del padre de Teddy con Mallory creo que sobra, pero es mi opinión. When her sponsor recommends she interview for a nanny position with the Maxwell family in affluent Spring Brook, New Jersey, she believes she is ready to make it on her own. After meeting their sweet five year old son, Teddy, she instantly believes this is the perfect job. Promising to take frequent drug tests, the Maxwells welcome her to their guest house.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. Wow...this book is even more of a mess than I anticipated. It's filled with conservative dog whistles, thinly veiled references to anti-trans rhetoric about trans kids, more than one positive reference to Harry Potter and JK Rowling (those two things together in a book released in 2022 alone tells me a lot about the intentions of the author). Plus fatphobia, racist stereotypes, and a whole lot of pointed jabs at leftists and atheists.

En cualquier caso, el principal punto a favor (aparte de los dibujos) es que me ha mantenido muy interesado a lo largo de sus alrededor de 400 páginas. Siempre a la expectativa. No siempre he visto venir lo que iba a pasar, cosa que agradezco enormemente en este tipo de novelas. Por lo tanto, cuatro estrellas muy merecidas, porque ha tenido capítulos de cinco, pero también algunos de tres. De hecho, esperaba menos de lo que ofrece. Por lo que os la puedo recomendar.You can watch me review this book & all of the other 2022 Goodreads Choice Awards Winners here: https://youtu.be/fFKXJ1gsZA8 How hard can it be to entertain a five-year-old? She thinks it will be easy - except Teddy begins drawing very disturbing pictures. Intrigued, Mallory attempts to decipher the pictures and gets help from the groundkeeper and a neighbor with an unusual gift. The first part of this book is largely figuring out what genre you're reading-- is it a horror with ghosts? or is this a regular mystery trying to spook you? --best to go into it with an open mind and make peace with both possibilities.

Mallory" explaining why the writing is so YMCA creative writing class is absolutely hilarious. I can see Jason typing this bad boy up thinking he had the mother of all defenses. Someone probably told him the MC sounds mad immature and he was like well instead of rewriting everything what if I say this basic prose was intentional LOL. I see you .. it's like when I submit a blog to stakeholders and say FYI this is a DRAFT to cover my ass knowing damn well this is not a draft Using their visual discrimination skills, kids search for the hidden pictures in illustrated books filled with both adventures and learning concepts. If you can't understand why using the gender of a very young child as a twist in a thriller is in bad taste, I'm not exactly sure how to help you. This is what the Maxwells' new babysitter Mallory is confronted with when she is employed to look after 5 year old Teddy. He has an imaginary friend called Anya who he talks to and loves to draw-- complete with long straggly hair and mouth open in a terrifying expression --but is Anya really imaginary? Or could she have something to do with Annie Bennett, the ghost said to haunt the guest cottage where Mallory is staying? I get how it might be challenging to leave the US with a stolen kid, but maybe move further away from the crime scene than just 1 state over?

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I really enjoyed Mallory as a character. I feel like she was super likable and relatable. I loved the sinister vibe, even though I wasn't 100% on what I should be afraid of at first.

Little kids making creepy artwork is a common trope because that shit is irresistible. Kids can be creepy anyway, but pair it with weird, dark drawings that may or may not depict a murder and hearing voices that may or may not be the ghost of the murdered... let's just say I needed to know how this would all resolve.However, Rekulak absolutely got me with the twists! I didn’t see ANY of them coming, which is difficult for a prolific thriller reader not to spot! However, I did subtract a star for believability. I am all for suspending my belief in the name of fiction, but several of the reveals didn’t feel very authentic. Along with her new friend, Adrian, Mallory begins to deep dive into the history of the property and the suspected murder of the woman who once lived there.