It really isn’t a sexual encounter or anything but it is strange and I wish the author would have chosen a different method. They put their fingers in the person’s mouth or kiss them and then the person becomes ‘in love’ with them, flirty, or obsessed with them. I thought the way they employed their power was a little weird. These characteristics don’t really play major roles, but some comments are made. If you don’t want descriptions of that, you may not way to read this book.Īnother disclaimer, depending how you feel about reading books with LGBTQ characters, Grey is presented as straight, Vivi lesbian, and Iris bisexual. Things there are all in various stages of death and decay and such. In this book we discover The Halfway which is similar to The Upside Down in Stranger Things. And one of the characters uses runes, potions, and palm readings. The community kind of views the sisters as witches or witch-esque.

There are also corpses with the same growths. Sometimes characters have moss and carrion flowers (which are corpse flowers because they smell like death) growing from their wounds or in their throats. In fact, the sisters have a weird, I guess, odor? about them that smells like rotting nature. It’s not super gruesome but there is a lot of talk of decay and death. I’m not sure if I’ve ever read a horror book so I’m not sure how to evaluate its components. House of Hollow is fantasy and a bit of horror. And the truth about what happened to them in their missing memories. Their journey to save their sister will expose truths that they aren’t ready to deal with.

What would Vivi and I be without her? Would we drift apart in the cavernous space Grey left behind, rogue planets spun out into the abyss?” “Grey was the grounding force in our sisterhood, the sun we both orbited around. Her and Vivi know that Grey is in danger and they must find her. Iris has remained loyal to Cate.īut Iris’s world comes to a crashing halt when Grey disappears. The ‘incident’ has created a strained relationship between Grey and Vivi and their mother, Cate, causing them to leave home before high school was over and make their way on their own.

“Grey was lightning, Vivi was thunder, and I was the sea in a tempest.”Īnd they all have a special ability to make other people do what they want them to do. It left all three of them white-haired, black-eyed, and insatiably hungry. They have been… ever since that thing that happened to them when Iris was seven. Iris and her two sisters, Grey and Vivi, are strange. “Dark, dangerous things happened around the Hollow sisters.”

House of Hollow by Krystal Sutherland