The Hollow sisters went missing as children. When they mysteriously reappeared with no memory, their case became famous. The youngest sister, Iris, is in high school when her oldest sister goes missing again. Is her disappearance related to whatever happened to them as children?
I don’t get scared by many books, but this book creeped me out! I had to stop reading it at one point because I was jumping at noises in the night. I enjoyed the mystery unraveling about what happened to the girls. It gives you a little bit at a time and keeps you invested. The latter half of the book reminded me a bit of T. Kingfisher’s The Hollow Places (nothing to do with the title). I thought this was YA, but reading it... I’m not so sure. This was a pretty dark and scary book.
“Our eyes turned black. Our hair turned white. Our skin began to smell like milk and the earth after rain. We were always hungry, but never seemed to gain weight. We ate and ate and ate. We even chewed in our sleep, grinding down our baby teeth and sometimes biting our tongues and cheeks, so we woke with bloodstained lips.”
I don’t get scared by many books, but this book creeped me out! I had to stop reading it at one point because I was jumping at noises in the night. I enjoyed the mystery unraveling about what happened to the girls. It gives you a little bit at a time and keeps you invested. The latter half of the book reminded me a bit of T. Kingfisher’s The Hollow Places (nothing to do with the title). I thought this was YA, but reading it... I’m not so sure. This was a pretty dark and scary book.
“Our eyes turned black. Our hair turned white. Our skin began to smell like milk and the earth after rain. We were always hungry, but never seemed to gain weight. We ate and ate and ate. We even chewed in our sleep, grinding down our baby teeth and sometimes biting our tongues and cheeks, so we woke with bloodstained lips.”