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The Hollow Places

T. Kingfisher

Start date: July 1, 2023

Finish date: September 30, 2023

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Aug 10, 2020 Sylvia Walker rated it it was amazing

Shelves: terror-and-suspense, first-reads, laugh-out-loud, horror, humor

Thank you so much for sending me the ARC of The Hollow Places! I loved T. Kingfisher's book, The Twisted Ones, and this one is every bit as good. I don't put many novels on both my horror and humor shelves, but The Hollow Places is both horrific and funny. The author says that The Hollow Places was partly inspired by Algernon Blackwood's short story, The Willows. If you've ever read The Willows, you have some idea of what our characters are in for.

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Jan 23, 2023 Joann Im rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: library-books

An imaginative and cleverly written premise. A perfect ingredient of slow-burn horror, humor and spectacular characterizations. I absolutely love slow-burn narratives and T. Kingfisher adeptly builds tension to its climax. As the story slowly unfolds it successfully affected the atmospheric dread which provided for an unsettlement experience brewing beneath the surface. The inventive alternate reality was immersively haunting. I will never look at other walls in any buildings the same way. The p ...more

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