It’s an intriguing premise but with a lot of repetition of scent imagery, things smelling like rot or “green.” For a short book the story is incredibly slow, making me less interested in the mystery as it took forever to learn any new information about it. There is some nice writing, though some of the prose verges on purple then anything that really compelled me. Unlike those characters, the story itself did not hold me. The cover of House of Hollow drew me in much like the Hollow sisters do to those around them. Now seventeen, Iris’ oldest sister Grey has gone missing again and she’ll need the help of her middle sister Vivi to follow Grey’s strange clues to find her, maybe even solving the mystery of what happened to the three sisters all those years before. They are disturbingly beautiful with insatiable appetites, and strange things happen to them and those around them. They have no memories of where they went, only that their blue eyes turned black, their dark hair turned white, a crescent moon scar on each of their throats. Ten years ago Grey, Vivi, and Iris Hollow disappeared from an Edinburgh street and were found a month later. We loved each other with potent, fervent fury. We kissed, on the forehead, nose on nose, butterfly eyelashes swept against cheeks…We possessed each other like shiny things. We got angry, pinched, kicked, screamed at each other. We knew the smell of each other’s morning breath.
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