Tara Goedjen loves anything mysterious. She is the author of The Breathless (2017) and the new novel, No Beauties or Monsters.[My Book, The Movie: The Breathless; Writers Read: Tara Goedjen (December 2017); The Page 69 Test: The Breathless]
At CrimeReads Goedjen tagged six favorite "genre-bending young adult novels with speculative elements," including:
House of Hollow by Krystal Sutherland (mystery + dark fantasy + horror).Read about another entry on the list.
House of Hollow begins with three young sisters who have been abducted. There is no real-world scenario that frightens me more. But a few years later the Hollow sisters are returned to their parents,seemingly unharmed, minus the disturbing change to their eyes—which have gone dark—and their hair color, which has gone white. What happened to the Hollow girls? And why don’t they remember? From that unsettling premise, Sutherland launches into a fairytale-esque modern fantasy that just gets darker and darker. Within its pages is one of the most chilling scenes I’ve ever read, and—fair warning—it should be noted that the body horror is intense in this one. Although, if you’re like me, you’d follow the youngest Hollow sister anywhere, even down the very dark, and very dangerous, rabbit hole that is House of Hollow.
--Marshal Zeringue
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