Review: House of Hollow

House of Hollow
By Krystal Sutherland

Published By: Hot Key Books
Publication Date: April 6, 2021
Date Read: November 5, 2022
Genre: YA – Thriller
Source: Bought
Format: Paperback
Pages: 296

From Goodreads:
Seventeen-year-old Iris Hollow has always been strange. Something happened to her and her two older sisters when they were children, something they can’t quite remember but that left each of them with an identical half-moon scar at the base of their throats.

Iris has spent most of her teenage years trying to avoid the weirdness that sticks to her like tar. But when her eldest sister, Grey, goes missing under suspicious circumstances, Iris learns just how weird her life can get: horned men start shadowing her, a corpse falls out of her sister’s ceiling, and ugly, impossible memories start to twist their way to the forefront of her mind.

As Iris retraces Grey’s last known footsteps and follows the increasingly bizarre trail of breadcrumbs she left behind, it becomes apparent that the only way to save her sister is to decipher the mystery of what happened to them as children.

The closer Iris gets to the truth, the closer she comes to understanding that the answer is dark and dangerous – and that Grey has been keeping a terrible secret from her for years.

House of Hollow has been on my TBR for about a year. I bought this one around September/October time 2021, thinking it sounded really cool and perfect for spooky season. I didn’t get around to reading it last year, so I was determined to read it for spooky season 2022… and I was right, this was definitely perfect for spooky season. It is creepy and atmospheric. Add that to the mystery and intrigue intertwined throughout the whole thing, I did really enjoy this one.

House of Hollow follows three sisters. The Hollow sisters went missing as children, presumed dead only to turn up a week or so later… but now things happen around them. Weird and creepy things. Iris doesn’t remember a thing about before they were found. It’s like her memory has been wiped clean… and when her older sister Grey goes missing again, she is determined to find her… and maybe she will discover what happened when they were younger along the way.

This is such a good book. It’s weird… like really weird. I honestly don’t know how the author came up with this plot but I really enjoyed it. I loved that it was creepy and weird, it was just what I was wanting at the time. The first half the book really was superb to me. I couldn’t put it down. It was creepy and I couldn’t wait to find out what was going to happen. However for me, once they found Grey, I just king of lost interest. I had figured out the whole mystery of what happened to them when they were children really early. Maybe this is why I lost interest a little bit, but I ended up skim reading the rest of the book.

I am really glad that I finally picked this one up, and read it. It was definitely worth the read, but would I read it again? Probably not. House of Hollow is perfect for people who love atmospheric and creepy books with a hint of mystery, but now I know how it all ends up I don’t think I would enjoy it a second time. It’s definitely a one-read book for me.

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