The Hollow Places by T. kingfisher
⭐️⭐️⭐️ 3/5
Format Read: Audio
Genre: Cosmic Horror
Released: 2020
Pages: 341
Trigger Warnings: body horror, animal death, child death, injury, confinement, alcohol, gore, stalking
Book Description
A young woman discovers a strange portal in her uncle’s house, leading to madness and terror in this gripping new novel.
Pray they are hungry.
Kara finds these words in the mysterious bunker that she’s discovered behind a hole in the wall of her uncle’s house. Freshly divorced and living back at home, Kara now becomes obsessed with these cryptic words and starts exploring the peculiar bunker—only to discover that it holds portals to countless alternate realities. But these places are haunted by creatures that seem to hear thoughts…and the more you fear them, the stronger they become.
Book Review
I wanted to love this book so much, but it just didn’t hit for me. I want to talk about the parts that I did enjoy. I like the main character’s sarcastic and dark humor. I am very much the same way so I related a lot and found them hilarious but that’s personal taste. I really enjoyed the creepy eerie feeling in the beginning of everything the different bunkers, the school bus, the intestines guy but the pacing really went downhill for me. I also REALLY wanted to know more about the bus of kids, what the fuck happened there?! What happened with all the people who have been there before? I just wanted so much more depth to the story. I got really bored with the back and forth later in the book, with not much happening. I enjoyed the concept of the whole thing but just wanted more from it than what we got.
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