nelliebly1025 's review for:

The Hollow by Jessica Verday
3.0

The cover of this book is very striking. I wanted it the first time I saw it. Then add to it the coolness that the author wrote the first draft by hand in 13 notebooks is pretty cool. However, the writing style is a little lacking. She jumped all over the place a few times, got ahead or behind herself, and dragged things out that didn't need to be. The story itself was awesome though! I wish she would have explained more in this book, but I guess that is what authors do to get you to buy the next one. Two things I had trouble with was the relationship Abbey had with her parents, and her trusting of Caspian right away. I could tell things were shady the first time he was introduced. It was cool how Abbey made perfumes, I wish she talked about that more. Overall it is a great story, but the writing could have been better. I will definitely be reading the next two books in the trilogy though. 3 1/2 out of 5 stars.