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briajane's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
sad
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
carissa230's review against another edition
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
In the future, the world is a rough place. It's extremely expensive to survive and people depend on corporate company towns. When Russel gets an opportunity to start a job in Plymouth Valley they know it's the chance of a lifetime.
When they arrive everyone seems strange and closed off. Most people live in company towns their whole lives. They rarely ever get new people. The family is working hard to fit in. As they find their niche in the town, their previously popular daughter doesn't find a place.
Linda becomes a doctor in the neighboring town and it becomes more clear than ever that there is an issue. The people are scared. As the night of Hollow comes closer Linda feels that something sinister is happening. She can't help but think the missing twins are going to be sacrificed in some way.
It was a really good premises for a book. I wish there had been more creepy things happening. More horror and less thriller.
When they arrive everyone seems strange and closed off. Most people live in company towns their whole lives. They rarely ever get new people. The family is working hard to fit in. As they find their niche in the town, their previously popular daughter doesn't find a place.
Linda becomes a doctor in the neighboring town and it becomes more clear than ever that there is an issue. The people are scared. As the night of Hollow comes closer Linda feels that something sinister is happening. She can't help but think the missing twins are going to be sacrificed in some way.
It was a really good premises for a book. I wish there had been more creepy things happening. More horror and less thriller.
cats_22's review against another edition
dark
emotional
mysterious
tense
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
5.0
betsytomszak's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
emotional
mysterious
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.25
Woof. What an adventure. Absolutely wild ride. content warnings abound - be prepared for gore.
jhansell's review against another edition
challenging
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
5.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Mental illness, Death of parent, Child death, and Cancer
mercourier's review against another edition
dark
tense
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A
2.75
I wanted this book to grab me and the concept did but I found the execution messy and circular and by the last 100 pages I was skimming to get to the denouement.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Murder
Minor: Bullying
bookph1le's review against another edition
1.0
1 star because I disliked it, not because I think the book is bad. The tl;dr is that it just didn’t work for me, even though dystopia is often my thing.
I think what made this book impossible for me to like was how weird everything was. To buy into a dystopia, the weirdness needs to be a lot more subtle. That way, I can understand why the characters buy into it. The book did address the way some family members tried to unsee the things the saw in order to grasp at a world that felt safer than the one they’d left, but that didn’t resonate with me because I felt disconnected from the characters and found them delusional. I have a hard time believing most people wouldn’t be creeped out by the level of weirdness festering in PV.
Because of this, I think the messages this book contains about corporate abuse and complicity get muddied. That’s a shame, because they’re interesting ideas.
Lastly, I really disliked the marriage dynamic. The book seemed to want to give it grace, but there was so much wrong with the dynamic that I think the book should maybe have interrogated why people tolerate as much in marriages as they do.
This was a weird and disappointing reading experience for me.
I think what made this book impossible for me to like was how weird everything was. To buy into a dystopia, the weirdness needs to be a lot more subtle. That way, I can understand why the characters buy into it. The book did address the way some family members tried to unsee the things the saw in order to grasp at a world that felt safer than the one they’d left, but that didn’t resonate with me because I felt disconnected from the characters and found them delusional. I have a hard time believing most people wouldn’t be creeped out by the level of weirdness festering in PV.
Because of this, I think the messages this book contains about corporate abuse and complicity get muddied. That’s a shame, because they’re interesting ideas.
Lastly, I really disliked the marriage dynamic. The book seemed to want to give it grace, but there was so much wrong with the dynamic that I think the book should maybe have interrogated why people tolerate as much in marriages as they do.
This was a weird and disappointing reading experience for me.
infinitezest's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
funny
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0