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The Hollow Places by T. Kingfisher

25 reviews

jayinbee's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gore and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Animal death, Alcohol, and Grief

gondorgirl's review

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcohol, Body horror, Death, Injury/Injury detail, and Panic attacks/disorders

There is a LOT of taxidermy.

tays_books's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Cursing, Death, and Gore

Moderate: Alcohol, Animal death, and Child death

Minor: Vomit, Blood, Infidelity, Mental illness, and Self harm

cuddlygryphon's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Animal death, Blood, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Body horror, Cursing, and Gore

Moderate: Medical content, Vomit, Self harm, and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Cannibalism, Confinement, Grief, and Gun violence

batesbarb's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

T. Kingfisher is fast becoming one of my favorite authors. Her POV characters tend to be very relatable to me, with an absorbing and engaging voice. Much like her other horror books, this one kept me up too late a few nights running because the creeping flashes of something very wrong at the periphery kept me too scared to put it down until there was a break in the story. 

I will say that this book had the same issue that I've had with most of her horror stories, which is that they're incredibly tense and frightening until the last quarter. Once the main character (and the audience) see and interact with the monsters, they're never anywhere near as scary as what we've made up from the glimpses out of the corner of our eyes. It's a common problem in horror, but I think it's a bit amplified here because Kingfisher is so good at  building and escalating the early tension of the imagination and the search that the falloff once we have an actual, visible problem to face is a bit more extreme. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Body horror

Moderate: Alcohol, Drug use, and Gore

nelldiaz's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny hopeful mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

A fun creepy story that had charm to it. I loved the characters. T Kingfisher is becoming one of my favourite authors. The performance of the narrator was also excellent 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Injury/Injury detail, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Blood and Animal death

Minor: Car accident and Alcohol

Taxidermy, creepy monsters

maregred's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror

Moderate: Gore, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Infidelity and Grief

maximauve's review

adventurous mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Medical content, Body horror, Injury/Injury detail, and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Alcohol and Infidelity

ilaxaria's review

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Body horror, Gore, and Self harm

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Alcohol, Medical content, and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Infidelity and Blood

spineofthesaurus's review

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Self harm, Violence, Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Drug use, Gore, Alcohol, Grief, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, and Torture

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, Gaslighting, Animal death, Medical trauma, Infidelity, and Ableism

Minor: Incest and Cannibalism