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“No one ever believes me when I tell them my uncle Earl owns a museum.”

The Hollow Places by T. Kingfisher

November 1, 2022 by GentleRain Leave a Comment

This is very readable and I’m glad I picked it up randomly at Barnes & Noble, but it didn’t live up to my hopes. I enjoyed Paladin’s Grace so much that I figured I’d see how Kingfisher did at horror. The Hollow Places follows Kara as she tries to recover from her recent divorce. She comes back to her small hometown to live with her uncle, who runs the Wonder Museum, full of taxidermy, Bigfoot memorabilia, and a picture of the Pope made of sunflower […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Horror Tagged With: body horror, family and friendship, family ties, horror, interdimensional horror, mother daughter relationships, t kingfisher

GentleRain's CBR14 Review No:123 · Genres: Fiction, Horror · Tags: body horror, family and friendship, family ties, horror, interdimensional horror, mother daughter relationships, t kingfisher ·
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Everyone needs to drop what they’re doing and read this book

June 13, 2016 by Andrea Krieter 1 Comment

Rating: 5/5 Summary: When Eric’s friend longtime friend Sarah Byrnes stop speaking, he’s confused and desperate to help her. The only problem is no one knows why she stopped speaking, one theory revolves around the burns that mar her face and hands. Eric is not only worried about his friend, but as he finds out more about why she’s being silent he begins to question what friendship truly is. This is paralleled by discussions in his Contemporary American Thought class. I love Chris Crutcher. I’ve […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Suspense Tagged With: family ties, friendship, high school, must read, realistic, YA

Andrea Krieter's CBR8 Review No:25 · Genres: Fiction, Suspense · Tags: family ties, friendship, high school, must read, realistic, YA ·
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