Which plays an interesting part near the end of the novel where she needs to pull herself up by her bootstraps and help them and defeat the evil hunting them. Where her sisters are reckless, she tries to be responsible. Where her sisters are brave, she is vulnerable. Though she has the same addictive beauty and allure her sisters have, she does her best to be normal and live within the bounds where her sisters lived outside. And so kicks off a nail biting and haunting mystery as the two sisters try to find their sister, and finally uncover what happened to them ten years ago. When she tries to meet up with her sisters, they find the eldest, Grey, gone. Much of the beginning of the novel centers around Iris, the youngest sister, who strives beyond anything to be normal and live outside of the extraordinary lives her sisters have made for themselves.

This novel takes place in Europe, with the characters traveling all over Europe. What starts as a real world mystery quickly delves in magical realism. Luckily, I kept reading and was stunned by the plot in all its twists and turns. There’s also some clunky repetition in how characters are described repeatedly in short succession, which nearly made me put it in my DNF pile. At first, I noticed that there was a lot of prose. The book cover is beautiful and the summary lured me in. I have been wanting to read this book since it came out in April. Full Goodreads page here House of hollo book Review The closer Iris gets to the truth, the closer she comes to understanding that the answer is dark and dangerous – and that Grey has been keeping a terrible secret from her for years. But when her eldest sister, Grey, goes missing under suspicious circumstances, Iris learns just how weird her life can get: horned men start shadowing her, a corpse falls out of her sister’s ceiling, and ugly, impossible memories start to twist their way to the forefront of her mind.Īs Iris retraces Grey’s last known footsteps and follows the increasingly bizarre trail of breadcrumbs she left behind, it becomes apparent that the only way to save her sister is to decipher the mystery of what happened to them as children. Iris has spent most of her teenage years trying to avoid the weirdness that sticks to her like tar.

Something happened to her and her two older sisters when they were children, something they can’t quite remember but that left each of them with an identical half-moon scar at the base of their throats. Seventeen-year-old Iris Hollow has always been strange. If you are thinking of adding House of Hollow by Krystal Sutherland to your classroom library, read this book review first.

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