VBT# Hidden Pictures - Jason Rekulak

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Hidden Pictures

Review: Hidden Pictures - Jason Rekulak - May 2022

Often going into a book blind is a good thing as you never know what to expect and the ride that the story can take you as it unfolds can turn out to be whack. That's how I found Hidden Pictures by Jason Rekulak. This book was a real crazy ride and the last few chapters were like OMFG what the heck ?? The book starts with our main character Mallory Quinn at a college clinical trial where she was blindfolded and told to raise her hand when she felt someone staring at her. She scored an almost perfect score, she was the first. The book then jumps 18 months down the track and Mallory swears the trial was a false memory as back then she was a strung-out druggie after getting hooked on oxycontin after an accident that killed her sister Beth. Now sober, her sponsor Russell has gotten her a job with the Maxwells as a babysitter/ live-in nanny for their five-year-old son Teddy. Teddy clicks immediately with Mallory and things are going great, she even joins in with his imaginary friend Anya. However, strange things start happening and it looks like Teddy is being possessed by this Anya as he is drawing strange pictures - he says it is Anya's story. The pictures though are becoming quite detailed and beautiful - too perfect for a five-year-old to draw. Mallory learns that a female artist named Annie was supposedly murdered in the cottage she lives in and her body was never found of course Annie sounds a lot like Anya, right. As Mallory and her new friend, a next-door neighbor Mitzi and Adrian try to get to the bottom of it. More strange things start happening and it looks like the Maxwells are trying to convince Mallory it's all in her head and even making it sound to the public she is using again which she isn't of course. What will happen though when the real truth about the drawings, the Maxwells, and Teddy is revealed? Readers, I will leave with you these four words "You will be shocked" when you read those last few chapters.  Hidden Pictures is a mixture of mystery/thriller with a hint of Horror and I look forward to reading more of Jason Rekulak's books as they are released and seeing what else he comes up with.

Amazon: https://amzn.to/39NL45T






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