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The Hollow
by Jessica Verday
I started this book because a friend suggested it to me, and because the previous book I was reading was boring me to death and I couldn't bare to continue it any longer. Hence I drove right into the story without any real idea of what I was getting myself into. The blurb revealed little and seeing as the genre was fantasy, I allowed myself to be excited.
How very wrong I was.
Straight off, the thing that caught my attention was the writing style. To put it nicely, it was simple to read and easy to understand. However in some parts the writing was shallow, for lack of a better word. It had me wondering, more times than once, if I was reading a fanfic or a novel. The writing style was almost too simple, and I thought I'd never say this because I love light reads just as much as any other books but oh well.
However even with that, I didn't let myself be thrown off and trudged on.
Now here's the thing. I am not a fan of slow paced books. Sure I love descriptions and details just as much as the next girl, but I need SOME plot. Some movement, some SOMETHING.
This book was a whooping 500 pages, so excuse me if I expected something to happen. Sure people will argue that it's a trilogy and I get that, this was more of a base for the future story. But for a book this long I don't think it was too much to expect some sort of story development.
But there was none. No character developments, no plot line, honestly apart from the last chapter, almost nothing happened at all.
Which brings me to the characters. Let me take the time to say how much I disliked Abby. She had all the characteristics to be a strong heroine, but she wasn't. She was extremely weak, and in some parts annoying. I was hoping that at least there would some sort of development for her, but she only grew more annoying as time passed. She didn't cry when her friend was found dead, but she broke down when a guy told her that he wanted them to take things slow...like?
This is a girl who found her dead friend's diary and instead of trying to find out how Kristine may have died, she instead decided to dwell in self pity on why Kristin had kept a secret from her...
I'm a sucker for fantasy, and ghost stories are right up there for my favorite things to read, and the plot line (the little of it that we saw in the last chapter) sounds interesting. But with this style of writing, these characters (an extremely weak heroine and a male lead who sounds like a knock off of Edward Cullen) I feel no pull to bring out the next books.
How very wrong I was.
Straight off, the thing that caught my attention was the writing style. To put it nicely, it was simple to read and easy to understand. However in some parts the writing was shallow, for lack of a better word. It had me wondering, more times than once, if I was reading a fanfic or a novel. The writing style was almost too simple, and I thought I'd never say this because I love light reads just as much as any other books but oh well.
However even with that, I didn't let myself be thrown off and trudged on.
Now here's the thing. I am not a fan of slow paced books. Sure I love descriptions and details just as much as the next girl, but I need SOME plot. Some movement, some SOMETHING.
This book was a whooping 500 pages, so excuse me if I expected something to happen. Sure people will argue that it's a trilogy and I get that, this was more of a base for the future story. But for a book this long I don't think it was too much to expect some sort of story development.
But there was none. No character developments, no plot line, honestly apart from the last chapter, almost nothing happened at all.
Which brings me to the characters. Let me take the time to say how much I disliked Abby. She had all the characteristics to be a strong heroine, but she wasn't. She was extremely weak, and in some parts annoying. I was hoping that at least there would some sort of development for her, but she only grew more annoying as time passed. She didn't cry when her friend was found dead, but she broke down when a guy told her that he wanted them to take things slow...like?
This is a girl who found her dead friend's diary and instead of trying to find out how Kristine may have died, she instead decided to dwell in self pity on why Kristin had kept a secret from her...
I'm a sucker for fantasy, and ghost stories are right up there for my favorite things to read, and the plot line (the little of it that we saw in the last chapter) sounds interesting. But with this style of writing, these characters (an extremely weak heroine and a male lead who sounds like a knock off of Edward Cullen) I feel no pull to bring out the next books.