It did not once flounder or operate on a precarious filament, it expedites with a consistent speed and I absolutely adored it. It is fast-paced since the beginning of the novel and it maintains that way until the very end of the novel. The pacing for this book is done flawlessly. It may look a little convoluted but the genres blended in immaculately and they knit into one another delicately that it does not feel messy at all. With borrowed elements from the mystery/thriller genre mix into the essence of a fantasy novel and add a sprinkle of body horror and contemporary scent into the cauldron and you will acquire this novel. This novel consists of a myriad of genres. I was supposed to be reading other books after reading the prologue for House Of Hollow (I wanted to gauge how much I would like this book beforehand) but my friend, Elysian, urged me to drop those books and continue on with House of Hollow and seeing how enchanted I was by the sequences that occur in the prologue itself, I proceeded to read it and I inevitably succumbed to reading the whole book and wow, it was a heart-stopping ride, alright. The first paragraph of the novel instantly sucked me in and would not let me go until I finished the prologue. I can foresee a lot of people enjoying it when this book hits the store with a wave. It is just an extremely well-rounded book and an absolute delight to read. This novel murdered me with its genre-twisting schemes and resuscitated me with its pacing, atmosphere, sisterhood, writing and a plethora of other wondrous essences that go along with this book. The closer Iris gets to the truth, the closer she comes to understanding that the answer is dark and dangerous – and that Grey has been keeping a terrible secret from her for years. But when her eldest sister, Grey, goes missing under suspicious circumstances, Iris learns just how weird her life can get: horned men start shadowing her, a corpse falls out of her sister’s ceiling, and ugly, impossible memories start to twist their way to the forefront of her mind.Īs Iris retraces Grey’s last known footsteps and follows the increasingly bizarre trail of breadcrumbs she left behind, it becomes apparent that the only way to save her sister is to decipher the mystery of what happened to them as children. Iris has spent most of her teenage years trying to avoid the weirdness that sticks to her like tar. Something happened to her and her two older sisters when they were children, something they can’t quite remember but that left each of them with an identical half-moon scar at the base of their throats. Seventeen-year-old Iris Hollow has always been strange. Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery/thriller, YA
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