After making the (glorious) mistake of starting this book before bedtime, I woke up in the middle of the night absolutely terrified of the trees outside my window. I feel like the highest praise you can give a horror book is that it gave you nightmares. While I’d read one of this author’s previous fantasy novels, I hadn’t realized she also wrote horror – until I started thinking about the bad guys from Paladin’s Grace. With her distinctive “delightfully fresh and subversive” ( SF Bluestocking) prose and the strange, sinister wonder found in Guillermo del Toro’s Pan’s Labyrinth, The Hollow Places is another compelling and white-knuckled horror novel that you won’t be able to put down.Ĭontent warnings: View Spoiler » violence, death (off-page), alcohol, cheating (of side character) « Hide Spoiler

But these places are haunted by creatures that seem to hear thoughts…and the more you fear them, the stronger they become. 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. Kara finds these words in the mysterious bunker that she’s discovered behind a hole in the wall of her uncle’s house.

This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.My rating:Ī young woman discovers a strange portal in her uncle’s house, leading to madness and terror in this gripping new novel from the author of the “innovative, unexpected, and absolutely chilling” (Mira Grant, Nebula Award – winning author) The Twisted Ones. I received an advance review copy of this book from NetGalley.

The hollow places