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House of Hollow by Krystal Sutherland

98 reviews

erudia's review

dark emotional tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual harassment, Stalking, Child death, and Gore

Minor: Miscarriage, Addiction, Suicide, and Death of parent

sylexlibris's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Suicide, Vomit, Child death, and Death

Moderate: Sexual harassment

pennywhizzle's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Stalking and Gore

Moderate: Suicide, Sexual harassment, and Kidnapping

Minor: Sexual assault

brooketreads's review

dark mysterious medium-paced

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

2.5

It wasn’t quite what I thought it would be. Sure it had darkish elements, but it didn’t feel fully fleshed out… no pun intended there. I also kind of wish Grey had been the main character. I found her more interesting than our actual main character Iris. I found Vivi boring. And the idea that these three super close sisters were so completely different from each other just didn’t make sense to me. I did really like the mom though. I thought the book started out pretty strong, but as it went on I just started to get bored. Then, I didn’t really enjoy the end, as in the whole last part after they find Grey. There’s basically two mysteries and we only get an answer to one. I hated the love angle that was thrown in. One, it wasn’t believable.

Two, he was Iris’ sister Grey’s on again-off again boyfriend.

I had been so exited to read this, and I definitely thought it was going to be a 5 star.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, Child death, and Murder

Minor: Alcohol

The sexual assault is marked for a couple reasons that contain spoilers:

One, a man does try to sexually assault the MC Iris. And two, there’s this weird issue with consent because our MC and her sisters have power to influence others and are so extremely attractive that it makes people want to kiss them. Some do in the story even though they may not want to or shouldn’t.

sparklingstarling's review

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Death, Child death, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Suicide, Self harm, and Murder

Moderate: Alcoholism, Sexual harassment, Toxic relationship, Stalking, Addiction, Sexual assault, and Gun violence

p_ivy's review against another edition

dark mysterious slow-paced

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

5.0

I was ten years old the first time I realized I was strange.

Dark, dangerous things happened around the Hollow sisters.

“Lose your way to the Mad Max set, Furiosa?”
“Like you can talk, Hermione.”

The things I could make people do when they were high on me.

Both of my sisters were the great loves of my life. I couldn’t live without them. I didn’t want to.

What the hell was going on?

“Some people go missing because they want to; some go missing because they’re taken. And then there are the others— those who go missing because they fall through a gap somewhere and can’t claw their way back.”

“This seemed like such a good and noble idea ten minutes ago,” Tyler said. “I forgot that I’m not a good or noble person.” I love Tyler 🤣

My sisters. My blood. My skin. What a gruesome bond we shared.

Thoroughly enjoyed this book! It would make such a great movie one day! It was eerie, dark, and a little disturbing at times lol but I could not put it down. I love the plot and the pacing. I love Iris, Vivi, and Tyler! The audiobook is really good too. I think I'll reread this someday!

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Content Warnings

Minor: Death of parent, Sexual harassment, Bullying, and Child death

flute_frog_7's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

I really liked this book overall. The story was super intense and engaging, and it sucked me in right away. The character relationships were really deep and interesting.
The only thing I didn’t like was that the gore was a bit too much for me, to the point where I felt nauseous during the last third of the book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Body horror, Child death, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Violence, Sexual harassment, Stalking, Murder, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Child death, Trafficking, Vomit, Drug abuse, Kidnapping, Mental illness, Sexism, Alcohol, and Alcoholism

thefairfae's review

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

5/5

⚠️TW/CW: Death (children and adults), gore, body horror, suicide, sexual assault, murder, and sexual harassment⚠️

This book was unbelievable. Like... I don't even know what to say... Well for starters I will definitely be reading some more books by this author because holy shit. The way this book is written and the way things are described... disgusting (in a good way). I felt so many emotions during this book. I felt sad, shocked, disgusted, horrified, and even sick at some points. The relationship between the sisters didn't help. It's such an animalistic and uncomfortable relationship and it feels right at home in this book. The twists towards the end of this book had be screaming at the book. I had to take multiple breaks because my heart was racing. I would also just like to throw in that I started this book a week before I went on vacation where I didn't read anything and I would still constantly think about this book. After the vacation I picked the book back up and I was immediately invested all over again. This book was so good I remembered all the details the whole month later! I definitely won't be able to describe how amazing this book is because I would be typing for literal hours because there are so many things I want to talk about. So instead of typing all that take this review as a sign to pick up this book!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexual harassment, Suicide, Sexual assault, Body horror, Child death, Death of parent, Gore, and Murder

hayleythegoose's review

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Sexism, Violence, Animal death, Gaslighting, Gun violence, Sexual harassment, Vomit, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Death, Gore, Alcoholism, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Mental illness, Stalking, Suicide, Fire/Fire injury, and Misogyny

Moderate: Cursing and Bullying

Minor: Self harm

thebookraiders's review

adventurous challenging dark mysterious sad medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death of parent, Suicide, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Bullying, Fire/Fire injury, Gun violence, Alcoholism, Blood, Child death, Death, Drug use, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Medical content, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, and Stalking