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A review by cosmicrusalka
The Hollow Places by T. Kingfisher
challenging
dark
mysterious
reflective
tense
medium-paced
4.0
The Magicians Nephew + Stargate
Do not read if you don't like being left with more questions than answers. So many questions.
I understand that the big stuff wouldn't be answered, because it's beyond human understanding, but there are definitely some things that I would have liked to know, like what happened to the man in the wall, the bus and the boat man, etc. I thought maybe Bible would have mentioned something to link back to some of them, but no dice. All just a giant mystery.
Not the ending I expected. Feel a little disappointed, anticlimactic. I thought of a handful different ways the book could have ended, and the one this gave was not one of them.
Maybe it's not about the journey or the destination, it's about asking yourself "what if" and opening your mind to possibilities of where you could go and what could happen.
The idea that we really don't know anything about the universe and how it works and there could be so much under the surface that we don't know about, that we may never know about, and even if we did know about it, we probably could never comprehend it.
Thoughts while reading:
-Oh great, not only do I have to endure most everyone being smut readers in real life, now I have to worry about it in book characters too, in books that are needless to say, NOT SMUT. Just can't escape it anywhere these days, I guess.
-fuck, fuck, fuck
-Why do all books portray cats as assholes?
-what the fuck?
-what the actual fuck??
Do not read if you don't like being left with more questions than answers. So many questions.
I understand that the big stuff wouldn't be answered, because it's beyond human understanding, but there are definitely some things that I would have liked to know, like what happened to the man in the wall, the bus and the boat man, etc. I thought maybe Bible would have mentioned something to link back to some of them, but no dice. All just a giant mystery.
Not the ending I expected. Feel a little disappointed, anticlimactic. I thought of a handful different ways the book could have ended, and the one this gave was not one of them.
Maybe it's not about the journey or the destination, it's about asking yourself "what if" and opening your mind to possibilities of where you could go and what could happen.
The idea that we really don't know anything about the universe and how it works and there could be so much under the surface that we don't know about, that we may never know about, and even if we did know about it, we probably could never comprehend it.
Thoughts while reading:
-Oh great, not only do I have to endure most everyone being smut readers in real life, now I have to worry about it in book characters too, in books that are needless to say, NOT SMUT. Just can't escape it anywhere these days, I guess.
-fuck, fuck, fuck
-Why do all books portray cats as assholes?
-what the fuck?
-what the actual fuck??
Content Warnings
Warning for Trypophobia