The Hollow Places

by ,

audio cd

Published Oct. 6, 2020 by Blackstone Pub, Simon & Schuster Audio.

ISBN:
9781797112176

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4 stars (1 review)

Pray they are hungry.

Kara finds the words in the mysterious bunker that she’s discovered behind a hole in the wall of her uncle’s house. Freshly divorced and living back at home, Kara now becomes obsessed with these cryptic words and starts exploring this peculiar area—only to discover that it holds portals to countless alternate realities. But these places are haunted by creatures that seem to hear thoughts…and the more one fears them, the stronger they become. (https://www.redwombatstudio.com/)

2 editions

reviewed The Hollow Places by T. Kingfisher

The Hollow Places, by T. Kingfisher

4 stars

One of the sad things about being an adult is that, when you find a strange portal to another world, it rarely takes you to a glorious adventure where you find a home that fits better than the world where you were born. When you’re an adult, those portals almost always take you to somewhere uncanny and possibly lethal. In spite of this near-truism I’ve just declared, humans just can’t seem to help themselves when we see a door that goes somewhere weird: we have to go through. Even though Kara and Simon know that the odd portal that opens up in the wall of Kara’s uncle’s Wonder Museum will probably take them someplace awful, they just have to explore. The Hollow Places, by the always amazing T. Kingfisher, tells us the story of what happens next...

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