Her first novel, Chemical Hearts, was published in over 20 countries and was named by the American Booksellers Association as one of the best debuts of 2016. Krystal Sutherland is an internationally published author. Putnam’s Sons Book for Young Readers for House of Hollow. I highly recommend House of Hollow to anyone that likes dark books. Family was also an important part of the book. The reader is constantly wondering what will happen next. The supernatural and unexplainable situations are present throughout the book. There are some gruesome parts of the book that made me squirm, but it was worth it. Grey has always held the sister trio together, so Iris and Vivi have to figure out how to find Grey without her help. The sisters are all very different but have always been close. Vivi and Grey are interesting counterparts to Iris. Iris will do anything for her mother Cate and is very close to her sisters even though her mother has a difficult relationship with her sisters. She is a high school senior and my favorite character. The story is told from Iris’s perspective.

Sutherland grabbed my attention from the very beginning and packed the book with suspense leaving me trying to figure out what happened ten years ago and now. Ten years later, Grey is missing and left clues to help Iris and Vivi find her.

Their hair and eyes changed causing their father to be suspicious, but everyone else is glad to have them returned safely. The Hollow sisters went missing for a month and then showed up with no recollection of what happened. House of Hollow is a dark and twisted fairy tale that is impossible to put down. As they brush against the supernatural they realize that the story they’ve been told about their past is unraveling and the world that returned them seemingly unharmed ten years ago, might just be calling them home. They aren’t the only ones looking for her though. But when Grey goes missing without a trace, leaving behind bizarre clues as to what might have happened, Iris and Vivi are left to trace her last few days. People find them disturbingly intoxicating, unbearably beautiful, and inexplicably dangerous.īut now, ten years later, seventeen-year-old Iris Hollow is doing all she can to fit in and graduate high school on time–something her two famously glamourous globe-trotting older sisters, Grey and Vivi, never managed to do. They have insatiable appetites yet never gain weight. Then, their blue eyes slowly turned black. Ever since they disappeared on a suburban street in Scotland as children only to return a month a later with no memory of what happened to them, odd, eerie occurrences seem to follow in their wake. Iris Hollow and her two older sisters are unquestionably strange. Book DescriptionĪ dark, twisty modern fairytale where three sisters discover they are not exactly all that they seem and evil things really do go bump in the night.

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