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House of Hollow by Krystal Sutherland

48 reviews

sadiefc's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child death, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, and Suicide

Moderate: Bullying, Drug use, Alcoholism, Eating disorder, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Stalking, and Vomit

yodareads12's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious fast-paced

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

4.0

Okay, this is probably the creepiest book I think I've ever read. I read the very beginning of it on bookishfirst last year and was immediately drawn in. I ended up pre-ordering the book but only recently got around to reading it. 

The story is about three young sisters who disappear from a street only to reappear a month later missing all of their clothes, black eyes, and having magically regrown all of their baby teeth. The father immediately suspects these are not his children and goes crazy to the point of suicide. 

We start up 10 years later and follow the youngest sister, Iris, when her eldest sister, Grey, mysteriously goes missing without a trace. We then go on a journey that reveals a lot of hidden truths and sheds light on what exactly happened 10 years before. 

This book has some extremely dark elements and some cursing. The storytelling is so well done that even through the creepy, you can't help but continue to read. Krystal Sutherland did an amazing job writing this story! 

The genre would fall under Thriller Fantasy. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cursing and Child death

leonardodicaprisun96's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Murder, Sexual assault, Suicide, and Body horror

Moderate: Alcohol and Cursing

sarahsbooklife's review against another edition

dark emotional sad 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? Yes

4.25

I actually enjoyed what I did read, I'm just not feeling it right now. I think I might pick this book up again in autumn and closer to Halloween when the creepiness feels right. 
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UPDATE: So, I finished it and I really enjoyed it. It was a perfect mix of creepiness, horrifying and mysterious. With snippets of magic and folklore woven in.
I loved that at the center of this book was sisterly love. 
Also the plot twist at the end for who the villain was all along was brilliant. I loved that reveal. I really liked how this story was told and how it ended. But a part of me wants either a sequel or a short story about Vivi and Iris's next trip into the Halfway

to see if Tyler is still there and what Iris thinks she missed when they were last there.

I would 100% recommend reading this book if you like dark, creepy and imaginative stories.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Body horror, Death, Gore, and Blood

Moderate: Vomit, Grief, Stalking, Biphobia, and Bullying

Minor: Death of parent, Medical content, Kidnapping, Drug use, Addiction, Child death, and Cursing

blissofalife's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.0

It’s been a long time since I’ve read YA, I’m not usually a fan of all the tropes that run rampant in the genre. House of Hollow is not that book. The one tripe I was worried it was developing was the “chosen one” trope but it didn’t! Hooray!

A good, twisty, quick read. Wouldn’t recommend reading at night alone if you scare easily, it put me on edge.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Animal death, Child death, Death, Death of parent, and Stalking

Moderate: Blood, Body horror, Cursing, Gaslighting, Grief, Kidnapping, Murder, Suicide, and Vomit

Minor: Addiction, Bullying, Drug use, Eating disorder, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual assault, and Sexual harassment

sarahasyouwish's review against another edition

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? Yes

4.5

This was an engrossing dark and twisted fairytale with elements of gore mixed into a tale of sisterly love. It is fairly fast-paced, and I found myself eager to return to it whenever I needed to step away. While this isn’t a mind blowing book or one that breaks new ground, I think it executed what it set out to do incredibly well. I was at turns enchanted, disturbed and touched by the story and appreciated that it didn’t feel overly YA to me despite the characters’s ages.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Gore, and Vomit

Moderate: Bullying, Child death, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Grief, and Suicide

Minor: Sexual assault

wrenxavier's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective tense medium-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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Violence, and Vomit

Moderate: Bullying, Death, Gore, Grief, Misogyny, Murder, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Suicide

Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Child death, Cursing, Death of parent, Stalking, and Toxic relationship

mjwilliamson's review against another edition

challenging dark sad tense medium-paced

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

2.5

This book had me conflicted. It’s not that I didn’t like the writing or think that it was well written (which it was) but that I don’t think it was the book for me. I appreciate how descriptive and evocative Sutherland is — she was able to submerge me in the Hollow’s world, whether it was the Halfway or London. However, I struggled with the dark, dank and the ugly of the landscapes she painted. It made everything seem so hopeless and that just isn’t what I personally enjoy as a reader.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Gore, Grief, Mental illness, Murder, Physical abuse, Vomit, Violence, Toxic relationship, and Suicide

Moderate: Sexual assault, Stalking, Addiction, Alcoholism, Bullying, Cursing, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Drug use and Drug abuse