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Sep 14, 2011

Judith rated it:

Where to begin? 'The Hollow' had me at its great cover and back story, I mean mysterious good-looking strangers and weird deaths are the stuff of greatness, right? Nope, I'm afraid I was wrong on that one. I really tried my best to get into this read because I hate not finishing a book! It makes me feel like I've given up and I'm an optimist so there's always that hope that somewhere along the pages it WILL get better. Wrong. The romance was not believable for me as I felt the 'connection' betwe More...

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Jul 07, 2011

Tanti rated it:

i LOVE this story. It's a beautiful love/ghost story, based on the Legend of the Sleepy Hollow. What a coincidence that i watched The Legend of Sleepy Hollow on a local channel recently and a couple of days later i got this manuscript. I fell in love instantly with the main characters. A really good first book by this author

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Jun 05, 2011

Suzanne rated it:

I loved this book! The story is amazing and the writing is wonderful. I also have some favourite quotes from this book that I need to find again.

The story is centred around Abby living in a small town called Sleepy Hollow where her best friend Kristian has been missing for many months. I really liked how the writer focused the story around the town and its legend (The Sleepy Hollow) aswell as the people within the town.

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Jun 20, 2010

Kate rated it:

Update June 2010: I change my rating for this book. After reading MANY books over the past few months, I realise The Hollow was actually not as good as I initially thought. The writing may be good but the plot was icky. Not much character development and no questions answered. I can rattle the names of many authors who expertly wrote books in trilogies with good plots and a least some questions answered.

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Initially I did not want to post my review so early but since eve More...

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Aug 05, 2009

Yan rated it:

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Dec 18, 2011

Natalia Belikov rated it:

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The book was there on the shelf with a facing display and a the girl with Gothic makeup caught my attention. She looked at me, and somehow, I saw my own reflection. Then, I read the book title; The Hollow. This picked my curiosity so I took it from the shelf and started to read. It was something about a romance in the town of Sleepy Hollow and that was enough. Seconds later, I was running with the book in my hands toward the cas More...

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Aug 05, 2011

SimBim rated it:

Verday's writing style is beautiful for a debut author and I really enjoyed this first and foremost. I also really liked the protagonist, Abbey; a refreshing change from some other annoying proagonist's I have read about in YA.

I could also really connect with the book; Abbey losing her best friend Kristen. The emotions, Ms.Verday puts into her book are torrid and undestandandable. I honestly felt Abbey's pain whenever she thought about Kristen. God knows what I would do if I ever los More...

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Jul 29, 2011

Kira rated it:

I liked this book. Not because the story was in any way symbolic, deep or profound; not because the characters were rounded or ever properly explained, not even because the setting convinced me; no, it was simply because no matter how hard I tried to pick fault with this book, tried to tell myself it was a bad YA crap-out by a lazy author, I couldn't. I enjoyed it too much.

It was fun, original and kept me entertained for a good six or so hours. The pacing was fine, and I liked that i More...

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Jun 26, 2010

Nian rated it:

I don't know what to say, except that I did not finish this book. Heck, I barely made it through one third of the novel. It wasn't suspenseful, as I expected ghosts and the supernatural variety, but instead, was met with the mysterious Caspian who was more boring than mysterious. I mean, he pops in and out of nowhere, with one or two words, and it's supposed to mean something? Add to his enigma? It's just annoying to me. Like, get to the story, already. All this build-up is pretty pointless if i More...

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Jul 14, 2011

~Tina~ rated it:

I can see why not a lot of people liked The Hollow. It was slow paced and very detailed, but in this case that's why I liked it. It was a very vivid book filled with a lot of sorrow and regret. It was a charming tale that put a good spin on The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. The characters grief wasn't dulled down, so it made Abby more believable. Caspian (great name) is mysterious and alluring.
All in all this was a decent read and I'm looking froward to reading this trilogy!

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Feb 07, 2011

Alice rated it:

The Hollow starts out at the funeral of Kirsten, seventeen year old Abbey’s best friend who vanished at the bridge near Sleepy Hollow Cemetery. Abbey becomes lost because they did everything together and she has no idea why Kristen was at the bridge. She meets Caspian and the whole world becomes upside down. They have a unique relationship that becomes harder for Abbey to define, until she discovers the truth.
I enjoyed the character of Abbey, she was driven focused, and she knew what she More...

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Mar 29, 2011

Marzie marked it as to-read

I'm reading it on principle. You can read about why here:

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and here:

http://jessicaverday.blogspot.com/2011/0...

Oh dear, Trisha Telep made a big mistake and Running Press and Constable and Robinson did too little, too late, and too ambiguously to correct it. Oh dear, Jessica, I'm buying your books not the ones she's editing. Oh dear, I hope this garners you a lot of press and gets people to realize that oh, dea More...

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Aug 31, 2011

Jude rated it:

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I was walking through borders, [Before it went RIP] and I saw the cover of this book [the old one] and I just picked it up and bought it without reading the summary.

Once home and reading the summary I just dived in and I LOVED it! I saw a lot of reviews in which they argued the slow pace of the book, but, to be honest I just jumped into the story and it refused to let go until the very end.

There were so many things circling More...

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Dec 04, 2011

Myra rated it:

Abbey's best friend Kristen is killed when she slips off the bridge in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery and falls to the water and rocks below. Abbey refuses to believe that Kristen is gone at first- but has to come to terms with it when her body is finally found. While dealing with her loss Abbey meets Caspian, an incredibly good-looking guy who makes her feel better for the first time in a long time.

But then Abbey finds out that Kristen may have been keeping secrets from her. Dangerous secre More...

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Sep 05, 2009

Heather rated it:

Hummmmm... I have mixed feelings about this book. I do like it, but I don't love it. Not yet. I guess there are going to be at least two more books, which is good. I can sort out my feelings then, plus there are so many unanswered questions. I'll save that for the end of this review, for those people who haven't read it yet.

If anything, this book has great quality of writing. Jessica Verday's beautiful way of detailing every day things or emotions was unique. I think I've read a fai More...

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May 18, 2011

Sharon rated it:

The Hollow began with a promising start. I found it very easy to relate to Abbey as she deals with this loss of her best friend Kristen. The story started to go downhill for me when Caspian was introduced.

My problem with Caspian is that there was just far too much of him in the book. Based on the summary I was expecting a mix of both mystery and romance. Instead the book became 95% Caspian and 5% mystery. This isn't to say that Caspian isn't a swoon-worthy character becau More...

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Apr 07, 2011

joє rated it:

Abbey's best friend Kristen dies or so the whole town believes, because the body hasn't been found yet. She finds consolation in doing the things she would've done were Kristen with her. Hanging out at Sleepy Hollow's cemetery. Talking to (dead) Mr Irving. Looking for new things. There she also meets ~~Casper~~ Caspian, who seems to be more than meets the eye.

I read 3/4 of the book and skimmed through the rest. The pacing of the book was kind of off. Slow. Not that much suspense. Mrs Ver More...

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Sep 14, 2011

Petra (Safari Poet) added it

I've never read The Legend of the Hollow, but that was the first thing I thought about when I saw the title. I realized that Washington Irving's story was the inspiration and plays a part in the book. Every chapter beings with a quote from the short story.

The whole time the anticipation of what the outcome was going to be, what this books was really about was building and then I realized I only had two chapters left. There were so many questions that would have to stay unresolved. I ex More...

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Sep 06, 2011

Ichigo rated it:

A-M-A-Z-I-N-G.♥♥♥♥♥♥ It was SUPER awesome!!!!!!!!!! I COULDN'T STOP READING ITS AWESOMENESS IT WAS SO GOOD THAT I DON'T EVEN KNOW HOW TO DESCRIBE IT! O_O I CAN'T WAIT ILL THE NEXT ONE COMES OUT

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Jan 03, 2012

Asch-Lee rated it:

This was a really depressing book, now that I think about it. Abbey really annoyed me. I don't know why...she just did. The plot was kind of boring because of the random details the author put in. And some of the dialoge was childish and unbelievable. After reading some of what the characters said I was like, "Nobody would ever say that!" I don't know...the story kept my interest for the most part. I wanted to know what happened in the end and some of the plot twists surprised m More...

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Nov 12, 2010

Khadija rated it:

I thought this book was really amazing & i LOVED how completely real the main character's respond was when she found out what Caspian truly was

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Jan 31, 2012

Bernardo rated it:

So, the story takes place in Sleepy Hollow (which just so happens to be the city in which Washington Irving's short story named The Sleepy Hollow happens - shocking)and tells the story about Abbey, a girl who's best friend Kristen has just killed herself under mysterious circumstances.
While dealing with her loss, Abbey meets a boy named Caspian and is instantaneously attracted to him, and as her feelings for him grow stronger, Abbey starts to think that the happyness that he makes her fe More...

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Jan 10, 2012

Tatsie rated it:

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Jan 03, 2012

Agnieszka rated it:

When I started reading this book I generally thought I would enjoy it and love it with a passion. But after the first 200-300 pages my hopes of falling in love with this book sort of plummeted down. The beginning started off great- It had plenty of potential to be a great read. But then it started to get slow. I was really interested in finding out the mystery of Kristen but most of the story pretty much concentrated on Abbey's sudden love for a mysterious boy named Caspain. I really tried to li More...

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Dec 14, 2011

Liyana rated it:

I thought this was a fantastic story revolving around the Sleepy Hollow legend. We're thrust in Abbey's life on the day of her best friend Kristen's funeral. Body lost, all they're burying is their hope that she's alive. It was hard to get in the dark mood while reading this in sunny weather, so I reread it once again when it was dark and rainy. It seemed to fit the mood perfectly.

Told through the Abbey's bleak, sad eyes, it was slow at the start. We delve into Abbey's past memories of More...

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Nov 05, 2011

Angela rated it:

I wanted to like this book. I really, honestly did.

Abbey's best friend just died, and there are somewhat mysterious circumstances surrounding her death. They lived in Sleepy Hollow, home of Washington Irving, and Abbey and her friend would visit Irving's grave, and hang out in cemeteries. Abbey herself makes perfume. She meets a boy, Caspian, and there are odd things about him. Meanwhile, she's trying to go on without her best and only friend, and it's heartbreaking, her loneliness.
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Oct 25, 2011

Erin rated it:

Whenever a new book in a series comes out, I like to go back and reread the previous books. The Hidden, the final book in Jessica Verday's trilogy, is waiting on my bedside table, but I have to admit, I didn't realize it would be quite such a slog to get through The Hollow and The Haunted. I remember liking these books a lot more than a do now.

The Hollow tells the story of Abbey, a teenage girl whose best friend, Kristen, has just been declared dead. At the funeral, she catches a glim More...

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Oct 22, 2011

Jennifer rated it:

I CAN'T WAIT TO READ THE NEXT BOOK! I loved the Paranormal Romance book "The Hollow". I think Jessica Verday's style of writing is just GENIOUS in this book. You can definately tell how great a writer she is. The Hollow is a great book for teenagers who love books about love that can never be and love that keeps trying. This book isn't just a sappy romance, though. This book also includes many interesting and some suspenseful parts. I remember picking it up one day at about 9:00 a.m an More...

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Sep 26, 2011

The Romantic Cynic rated it:

I've heard people sing praises and limmircks about this book. So, when I put it on my to-be-read shelf, I thought, it has to be pretty decent. I read the summary and that confirmed it: With a mysterious death in Sleepy Hollow of all places, this just has to be good.

Oh, if only.

I've had bad luck lately with books. First Blood Magic now this. And the fact is, it was the same general problem in each book: I WAS BORED.

I don't blame the writer for this, I really don't. More...

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Sep 20, 2011

Heather rated it:

*mild spoilers ahead*

Welcome to Sleepy Hollow, New York – home of “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”. Sixteen year old Abby has just lost her best friend in a tragic drowning accident and can’t seem to accept the fact that Kristen is gone. No body has been found, so on the day of the funeral, Kristen’s parents bury an empty casket, needing the closure a funeral will bring. However, Abby can’t let go. Kristen was much more than her best friend – she was her only friend. As she struggles t More...

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