The dialogue is believable, with each character’s voice unique without becoming a caricature. It is never waffly, yet it also doesn’t leave you wanting in terms of description. Krystal Sutherland’s writing is airtight, saying exactly what needs to be said with the perfect amount of words. It’s time for Iris to finally discover what really happened when she was seven. Then when her oldest sister, Grey, goes missing, things become weirder still. Iris simply longs for a normal life, but normal seems impossible. Weird things happen around them, and people tend to find them intoxicating to the point of madness. Stranger still, shortly after they returned, their hair turned white and their eyes black. Iris Hollow is the youngest of three sisters, famous for disappearing without a trace when they were children, only to reappear a month later with no memory of what happened to them. Young adult stories are typically fairly fast-paced, but this book is relentless, and as intoxicating as the Hollow sisters themselves. Despite being an avid reader, I rarely come across a book that I literally cannot put down, but House of Hollow manages to suck you in from the very first page, dragging you through all the glamour, mystery, and horror before spitting you out at the other end.
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