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The Hollow
by Jessica Verday
Well, this was an experience.
A bit of background information: I bought this book several years ago. I tried reading it once or twice but never got farther than around twenty pages. But, my goal this summer was to read most of my unread books (there are almost 100), so I decided to tackle this one, so I could get closer to completing my goodreads challenge and make room on my bookshelves.
I was really hoping this book would surprise me. If nothing else, I wanted it to be one of those books I like to call "quality trash" - guilty pleasure reads, the ones you know aren't literary masterpieces, but they're just so addictingly bad that you can't put them down. But no. This one was just boring.
I know authors put so much hard work into their books, so I hate writing bad reviews, but sometimes you just have to get it out of your system, and this one was just NOT for me. Maybe had I read this when I was twelve or thirteen I would've enjoyed it, but the world will never know.
I remember I bought this book because I had never read a retelling of the Legend of Sleepy Hollow, and the whole idea really intrigued me (because I'm trash for retellings). But that whole aspect could've been taken out of this book and it would've been the same - a paranormal romance where an outcast girl constantly worries about if the mysterious hot guy likes her or not. For a girl whose best friend literally just DIED, she spent a lot more time worrying about Caspian or whatever his name was instead of trying to figure out what happened to her friend - which is what she kept saying she was going to do. The whole book just seemed to be the same scenes over and over. I ended up skimming half of it because I felt that I'd already read it.
So yeah, this one was not for me. At least it won't be taking up valuable shelf space anymore.
A bit of background information: I bought this book several years ago. I tried reading it once or twice but never got farther than around twenty pages. But, my goal this summer was to read most of my unread books (there are almost 100), so I decided to tackle this one, so I could get closer to completing my goodreads challenge and make room on my bookshelves.
I was really hoping this book would surprise me. If nothing else, I wanted it to be one of those books I like to call "quality trash" - guilty pleasure reads, the ones you know aren't literary masterpieces, but they're just so addictingly bad that you can't put them down. But no. This one was just boring.
I know authors put so much hard work into their books, so I hate writing bad reviews, but sometimes you just have to get it out of your system, and this one was just NOT for me. Maybe had I read this when I was twelve or thirteen I would've enjoyed it, but the world will never know.
I remember I bought this book because I had never read a retelling of the Legend of Sleepy Hollow, and the whole idea really intrigued me (because I'm trash for retellings). But that whole aspect could've been taken out of this book and it would've been the same - a paranormal romance where an outcast girl constantly worries about if the mysterious hot guy likes her or not. For a girl whose best friend literally just DIED, she spent a lot more time worrying about Caspian or whatever his name was instead of trying to figure out what happened to her friend - which is what she kept saying she was going to do. The whole book just seemed to be the same scenes over and over. I ended up skimming half of it because I felt that I'd already read it.
So yeah, this one was not for me. At least it won't be taking up valuable shelf space anymore.