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A review by bookwoods
House of Hollow by Krystal Sutherland
5.0
4,5/5
House of Hollow feels like a fever dream that doesn’t let you go before the last page is turned. It’s earthy and creepy and strange, in the best possible way.
The book focuses on three sisters who as children went missing for a month without anyone, them included, knowing what happened. Ten years later, Grey (the oldest) is a world known model and a fashion designer, Vivi (the middle one) is a bassist wildly exploring the world and Iris (the youngest) is living with their overprotective mother and trying her best to be considered normal. But as we soon realize, these sisters are far from any concept of normality.
The plot is quite fast and very intense, yet there’s room for descriptive, eerie writing. The twists are excellent and quite unique, as is the story overall. At least I have never read anything similar!
“You are like the death flowers that grow rampant in your wake: lovely to look at, intoxicating even, but get too close and you will soon learn that there is something rank beneath. That’s what beauty often is, in nature. A warning. A disguise.”
House of Hollow feels like a fever dream that doesn’t let you go before the last page is turned. It’s earthy and creepy and strange, in the best possible way.
The book focuses on three sisters who as children went missing for a month without anyone, them included, knowing what happened. Ten years later, Grey (the oldest) is a world known model and a fashion designer, Vivi (the middle one) is a bassist wildly exploring the world and Iris (the youngest) is living with their overprotective mother and trying her best to be considered normal. But as we soon realize, these sisters are far from any concept of normality.
The plot is quite fast and very intense, yet there’s room for descriptive, eerie writing. The twists are excellent and quite unique, as is the story overall. At least I have never read anything similar!
“You are like the death flowers that grow rampant in your wake: lovely to look at, intoxicating even, but get too close and you will soon learn that there is something rank beneath. That’s what beauty often is, in nature. A warning. A disguise.”