House of Hollow by Krystal Sutherland

Young Adult. Horror. Organic Horror. Fantasy. Eerie. 

Rating: 4/5

Started: July 30

Finished: Aug 3

Summary: 

    The Hollow Sisters: There, and then gone. When they were children, the Hollow girls disappeared from a neighborhood street, only feet from their parents. When they came back a month later, they weren't the same. Their eyes were black, their hair white. The didn't talk to anyone but each other. 

    Years later, Iris Hollow, the youngest of the sisters, is just trying to be normal. And with her sisters no longer living at home, she might actually have a chance at it. But when a man who doesn't look human starts following her and her oldest sister goes missing, Iris must find her, and in doing that, discover what, exactly, happened during that month when they were children. 

Thoughts: 

    The writing. Holy god, the writing. So eerie, so vibrant. So grotesquely gorgeous. Sutherland delivered sensation after sensation that I never would have imagined: scents and scenes and situations that I would never have dreamed of, but in House of Hollow, they felt so very real. I wasn't super attached to the protagonist, or any of the characters at that, and the twist at the end was wild but not as earth-shattering as it could have been. However, the sheer range of sensation in the book was very much worth the read. God, the feeling of it. 

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