{"id":5425,"date":"2021-11-29T21:32:51","date_gmt":"2021-11-29T11:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/veritysparks.com\/?p=5425"},"modified":"2021-11-29T21:39:36","modified_gmt":"2021-11-29T11:39:36","slug":"house-of-hollow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/veritysparks.com\/?p=5425","title":{"rendered":"HOUSE OF HOLLOW"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I asked my old editor what her publishing company had been excited about in 2021, she recommended two books, one junior fiction – A Glasshouse of Stars<\/em> –\u00a0 and the other, House of Hollow<\/em>,\u00a0 YA.\u00a0 I ordered them both. And both are amazing.<\/p>\n

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The three Hollow sisters – Grey, Vivi and Iris –\u00a0 disappeared as children. Just like that, on the street in Edinburgh; they were there and then they weren’t. The trio reappeared, naked and with small wounds at the base of their throats, a month later. They were never able to remember what happened to them.
\nSkip forward a decade. Grey is now a world famous model with her own fashion label and her face on the cover of Vogue<\/em> magazine. Vivi is a rock star. Iris, the youngest, who narrates the story, is in her last year at school. All three girls are strange; not only arrestingly beautiful, but possessed of a kind of glamour – in the old sense of enchantment. They cast a spell, even when – like Iris –\u00a0 they don’t want to.
\nWhen Grey goes missing, Iris and Vivi go looking for her. Only to find out that someone – or something<\/em> – is on the hunt, too.<\/p>\n

And that’s where I should stop, for fear of spoilers. Except to say that this book introduced me to a new sub-genre;\u00a0 body horror. The flowers growing out of live flesh were especially disturbing. The words dark<\/em>, haunting<\/em> and chilling<\/em> come to mind.<\/p>\n

I don’t read a lot of YA fiction. I don’t read a lot of horror. I must change my ways. House of Hollow<\/em> was addictive; a darkly twisted fairytale, an inventive mixture of archetypal and mythic themes entwined in modern lives, written in gorgeous, lush prose. Never have decay and putrescence seemed so deliciously sensual.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When I asked my old editor what her publishing company had been excited about in 2021, she recommended two books, one junior fiction – A Glasshouse of Stars –\u00a0 and the other, House of Hollow,\u00a0 YA.\u00a0 I ordered them both. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/veritysparks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/veritysparks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/veritysparks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/veritysparks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/veritysparks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5425"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/veritysparks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5430,"href":"https:\/\/veritysparks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5425\/revisions\/5430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/veritysparks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/veritysparks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/veritysparks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}