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. But these places are haunted by creatures that seem to hear thoughts…and the more one fears them, the stronger they become. Description A 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 Awardwinning author) The Twisted Ones. The first two thirds felt very slow, with little action. That isnt a bad thing, but the tone is interchangeable with the mcs from the other books.
Freshly divorced and living back at home, Kara now becomes obsessed with these cryptic words and starts exploring this peculiar area-only to discover that it holds portals to countless alternate realities. The mcs narrative voice is pretty much identical to that of Mouse (The Twisted Ones) and Cara (The Hollow Places). Kara finds the words in the mysterious bunker that she’s discovered behind a hole in the wall of her uncle’s house. A 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.
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