emma's Reviews > House of Hollow

Here is a small list of perfect things in life:
- fairytales
- scary weird mean beautiful girls
- unsolved mysteries
- flowers and generally pretty things
- magical worlds just outside of ours
- creepy stories
- sisters

There are probably eleven perfect things in life, and I just listed seven of them. (Shoutout to 7 Eleven.) (Now I want a slushie.)

And guess the hell what.

THEY'RE ALL IN THIS BOOK.

I 100% added this book because of its cover, but then I did something unthinkably brave and even more rare: I read the synopsis. And when I did, I only got...more excited??

This is a story of three spooky sisters who had something Mysterious happen in childhood: they disappeared completely for a month, then came back with pure white hair, black eyes, sharp teeth, and ravenous appetites, and no memory of where they had been.

DOESN'T THAT SOUND AMAZING.

Also, their names are Grey, Vivi, and Iris. I mean...come on.

A decade or so later, each sister is leading a very different (but always superlative) life, when the eldest goes missing. Cue a bunch of ethereal gore, model-on-model violence, and bug descriptions that will burn themselves into your head.

This is my favorite thing for YA to be: completely ridiculous, high on itself, and one of a kind.

Yes, that has its drawbacks: The plot dragged at times (under the weight of some truly try-hard writing), and our protagonist is less compelling than her sisters (this is the curse of most young adult fiction), and it has that extremely goofy thing of when YA authors try to make their characters rich and/or famous (in this case both) but they have literally no idea how and it ends up completely past the point of parody...

But when I let myself ignore all of that, this was fun. Much the dark spooky fairytale situation I wanted.

Undecided on whether to round up or down but 3.5 for sure!

Bottom line: dreams do come true.

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pre-review

accidentally read 100 pages of this in a sitting. either it's that good or it's a cursed object

update: probably a cursed object.

review to come / 3.5 stars

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tbr review

i know i've said many times that i judge books by their covers.

this is the truest that has ever been.